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Family
Marriage: Children:
  1. Ernest Wheeler: Birth: 11 Sep 1908. Death: 13 Nov 1908

  2. Viola Veatrice Wheeler: Birth: 9 Jan 1910 in Granville County NC. Death: 8 Oct 1999 in Newburgh, In 47630

  3. Elwood Wheeler: Birth: 27 Sep 1912 in Granville County NC. Death: 29 Jul 1996 in Durham, NC

  4. Ronald Edward Wheeler: Birth: 29 Mar 1915 in Granville County, NC. Death: 1 Mar 1972 in Durham, NC


Sources
1. Title:   U. S. Census 1910 Granville pg 20, 1920 pg 5
2. Title:   tombstone
3. Title:   U. S. Census 1900 , 1920 Granville County NC
Page:   1910 pg 20, 1920 pg 13
4. Title:   Newspaper obit

Notes
a. Note:   James is buried at Mary'S Chapel Church. He and Ada, my grand ma split up when my mom was twelve. I remember Elwood saying he was on his on when he was in fourth grade. He held a full time job and lived by him self. He worked in a bakery. James' obituary list him as 68 years old. He died at Duke Hospital at 9:45 AM. He lived at 604 Carlton Ave. Witness' at his wedding: John Wheelers, Early Lloyd, W. Hockaday. Z.W. (his dad) married them. His sister Della did not want him to marry this person, according to my Mother. James did not like to bath. When his son Ronald came home from the WWII and brought his new bride, James actually took a bath. James was remarried then and his bath was the talk of the family. I can only remember seeing him one time before he died. His kidneys had failed and he was carrying around a gallon jug that had rubber tubes attached to him. At the time this was the way kidney failure was treated. I can remember that mom's brother Elwood picked us up one Friday evening after we got out of school and took us to Creedmore to see him. He was working the night shift at a flour mill, as a night watchman.
  Mom always said that her dad was a dreamer. The crop of choice was tobbacco. James wanted to plant cotton because he thought there was more money to be made. The area people thought he was getting above his raising, and treated him as an outcast. I think his so called dreaming was passed to his son Ronald.


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