Newton County GaArchives Obituaries.....Elbert Wheeler August 1905
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The Enterprise, Sept. 1, 1905

Mr. Elbert Wheeler Dead
  Mr. Elbert Wheeler, father of Mr. Sim T. Wheeler, of this city, died
Monday afternoon at 2:30 after an illness of several weeks.
  Mr. Wheeler was probably the oldest citizen in the county, being born on
the 30th day of Oct. 1809 at Warrington, Ga. Had he lived another month
he would have been 96 years of age.
  He raised a large family of children, nine of whom still survive him. S. T.
Wheeler, of Covington, A. S. Of Jacksonville, J. E. of Augusta, Mrs. M. E.
Paul, of Mass., Mrs. J. E. Ellis, of South Georgia, Mrs. Fannie Bloodworth,
of Texas, Mrs. Amanda Brown, of Ark., Mrs. Virginia Treadwell and J.T Wheeler,
of Rockdale county.
  His funeral services were conducted by Rev. W. T. Grenade Wednesday at
3 o'clock and buried at Rockdale Church, near Conyers.

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