Jacob Adams WHEELER & Prejettie "Jettie" MILLER



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Jacob Adams Wheeler & Prejettie "Jettie" Miller


Husband Jacob Adams Wheeler 



 
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       Born: 10 September 1853 83
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       Died: 28 September 1933 - Barnardsville, North Carolina 12
     Buried: 29 September 1933 - North Fork, North Carolina 83







     Father: Thomas Ray Wheeler (Abt 1826-Bef 1910)
     Mother: Clarissa\Clarenda Riddle (1825-Abt 1880) 127,128








    Married: 





Other Spouse: Nancy Sophronia Patterson (Abt 1840-1911) - December 1869 91



Noted events in his life were:

•   Milit-Beg 98, 6 August 1898



1st. Regiment Co. D N.C. Volunteers, Spanish-American War


                FIRST REGIMENT

WHEN WAR WAS DECLARED AGAINST THE KINGDOM OF SPAIN, AND A CALL WAS MADE
FOR VOLUNTEERS BY THE PRESIDENT,
NORTH CAROLINA WAS AMONG THE FIRST TO RESPOND, AND HER FIRST OFFERING WAS
THE FIRST REGIMENT.

COLONEL JOSEPH F. ARMFIELD, OF STATESVILLE, N.C. WHO HAD COMMANDED THE
FOURTH REGIMENT OF NORTH CAROLINA
STATE GUARD FOR SEVERAL YEARS, WAS COMMISSIONED COLONEL OF THE FIRST
REGIMENT OF NORTH CAROLINA
VOLUNTEERS, AND MEN WHO HAD SERVED UNDER HIM IN THE STATE GUARD FOR A
NUMBER OF YEARS, NOBLY RESPONDED
TO THE CALL AND WILLINGLY LINKED THEIR FATE WITH HIS IN THE NEW FIRST.

THE REGIMENT WENT IN CAMP AT RALEIGH, N.C., THE CAMP BEING FORMALLY NAMED
CAMP BRYAN  GRIMES, IN HONOR OF
COL. BRYAN GRIMES, WHO COMMANDED THE FOURTH NORTH CAROLINA REGIMENT
DURING THE CIVIL WAR, AND WAS
MUSTERED INTO THE SERVICE OF THE UNITED STATES ON THE 2ND DAY OF MAY,
1898.

ON MAY 18, 1898, TELEGRAPHIC ORDERS WERE RECEIVED FROM THE WAR DEPARTMENT
TO PROCEED TO TAMPA,
FLORIDA, AND IN COMPLIANCE WITH THESE ORDERS, AT NOON, SUNDAY, MAY 22,
1898. AT COLUMBIA,
S.C. AN ORDER COUNTERMANDING THE PREVIOUS ONE RECEIVED AT RALEIGH, N. C.
WAS RECEIVED, AND
IN COMPLIANCE WITH THIS ORDER, THE REGIMENT WAS DIVERTED TO JACKSONVILLE,
FLORIDA.
ABOUT  SEVEN MILES SOUTH OF SAVANNAH, GEORGIA, AT FIVE FORTY FIVE ON THE
MORNING OF THE 23RD OF MAY,
1898, THE THIRD SECTION OF THE TRAIN, IN COMMAND OF MAJOR GEORGE W.
BUTLER, COLLIDED WITH A FREIGHT
TRAIN, AND THE RESULT WAS ONE KILLED AND SEVEN INJURED. W. M. BARBEE OF
COMPANY K, WAS CRUSHED
BETWEEN THE CARS AND INSTANTLY KILLED. OF THE SEVEN MEN INJURED, ONLY ONE
WAS SERIOUSLY INJURED.
ARRIVING AT JACKSONVILLE, ON MAY 23, 1898, TENTS WERE PITCHED ABOUT TWO
MILES FROM THE CITY.

THIS WAS THE SECOND REGIMENT TO ENCAMP AT JACKSONVILLE, FLORIDA, THE
SECOND ILLINOIS
VOLUNTEER INFANTRY HAVING ARRIVED ONE DAY EARLIER.

ALL THE MEMBERS OF THE REGIMENT, EAGER TO PREPARE THEMSELVES FOR REAL
SERVICE IN THE
FIELD AGAINST THE ENEMY, DEVOTED THEIR WHOLE TIME AND ATTENTION TO THE
DAILY DRILLS AND
OTHER INSTRUCTIONS, AND IT IS DUE THE CREDIT OF COLONEL ARMFIELD AND HIS
STAFF OF EFFICIENT
OFFICERS THAT THE REGIMENT ATTAINED SUCH A HIGH STANDARD OF MERIT AMONG
THE VOLUNTEER
ORGANIZATIONS OF THE UNITED STATES.

IN AUGUST, 1898, ORDERS WERE RECEIVED FROM THE WAR DEPARTMENT FOR THE
REGIMENT TO HOLD
ITSELF IN READINESS TO PROCEED TO THE ISLAND OF PORTO RICO, UNDER COMMAND
OF MAJOR GENERAL
WADE, BUT THE PEACE NEGOTIATIONS WHICH WERE GOING ON AT WASHINGTON
BETWEEN M. G. CAMBON, FRENCH
AMBASSADOR TO THE UNITED STATES, ON BEHALF OF SPAIN, AND THE SECRETARY OF
STATE, WHICH
RESULTED IN THE SIGNING OF THE PEACE PROTOCOL, AND A CESSATION OF
HOSILITIES OF THE ARMY
AND NAVY, CAUSED THE REGIMENT TO REMAIN WITH THE SEVENTH ARMY CORPS.

NOTHING OF SPECIAL MENTION OCCURED TO THE REGIMENT AS AN ORGANIZATION
UNTIL ORDERS
WERE RECEIVED FOR THE MUSTERING OUT  OF SERVICE OF THE REGIMENT, WHICH
WAS EARLY IN SEPTEMBER,
1898

PREPARATIONS WERE MADE FOR MUSTER OUT, AND WHEN EVERYTHING WAS READY FOR
THE MUSTERING OFFICER,
ANOTHER ORDER WAS RECEIVED FROM THE WAR DEPARTMENT, RETAINING THE
REGIMENT IN THE SERVICE.
ON OCTOBER 24, 1898, THE REGIMENT BROKE CAMP AND LEFT JACKSONVILLE,
FLORIDA FOR THEIR NEW
CAMP, NEAR SAVANNAH, GEORGIA, WHERE THEY WERE ENCAMPED WITH THE OTHER
REGIMENTS OF THE
SEVENTH ARMY CORPS, ON THUNDERBOLT ROAD, ABOUT ONE AND A HALF MILES FROM
THE CITY.

ON THE MORINGIN OF DECEMBER 7, 1898, THE REGIMENT BROKE CAMP AT SAVANNAH
AND THAT
MORNING BOARDED THE TRANSPORT ROUMANIA AND SAILED NEXT DAY FOR HAVANA,
CUBA,
ARRIVING ON THE EVENING OF THE 11TH AND  WENT INTO CAMP COLUMBIA, AT
BUENA VISTA
STATION, ON THE MARIANO RAILROAD, SEVEN MILES FROM HAVANA.

BEING THE FIRST AMERICAN SOLDIERS TO ARRIVE AT HAVANA,THEY RECEIVED A
WELCOME THAT WILL BE
EVER REMEMBERED BY THOSE THAT WITNESSED IT.  PEN CANNOT DESCRIBE THE
INTENSE GLADNESS,
ALMOST BORDERING ON FRENZY, DISPLAYED BY  THE CUBAN PEOPLE AT THE SIGHT
OF THEIR LIBERATORS.

DURING THE STAY  OF THE REGIMENT ON CUBAN SOIL THE USUAL DRILLS WERE
CONTINUED AND THE
SAME RIGID DISCIPLINE WAS ENFORCED. THE CONDUCT OF THE MEMBERS WAS BEYOND
REPROACH,
AND THEIR GENTLEMANLY DEPORTMENT GREATLY IMPRESSED THE NATIVES, WHO HAD
BEEN SO
ACCUSTOMED TO CRUELTY AND ROWDYISM.  ORDERS WERE GIVEN ABOUT THE 18TH OF
MARCH
TO RETURN TO SAVANNAH, GEORGIA, WHERE THE REGIMENT WOULD BE MUSTERED OUT,
AND THEY
ARRIVED THERE ON THE 28TH OF THE SAME MONTH, AND WERE MUSTERED OUT APRIL
22, 1899.


•   Milit-End 12, 22 April 1899 - Savannah, GA




•   Occupation, ran a mill in North Fork;, 1920 - Northfork, North Carolina




     The room smelled of dried corn, old wood, the mossy millrace,
falling water.  The inside was dim, and what light did come to the two
little windows and the door fell in beams through an atmosphere thick
with the dust of ground corn.  The miller stepped from behind the
grindstones.  He brushed his hands together and more dust flew.  When he
came into the light of the door, Ada could see that his hair and eyebrows
and eyelashes and the hair of his arms were frosted pale grey with corn
dust.
from: "Cold Mountain" a novel by Charles Frazier, pg.. 32


•   Alt. Birth 12, Alt. Birth, 9 April 1854 - North Carolina




•   Alt. Birth 91, Alt. Birth, 1852




•   Alt. Birth 91, Alt. Birth, 1850










Wife Prejettie "Jettie" Miller (details suppressed for this living person)





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Other Spouse: Unknown Miller








Children

1  M  Horace Wheeler





       Born: 25 December 1914 - Barnardsville, North Carolina
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       Died: 1974 27
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2  F  Myrtle Pauline Wheeler (details suppressed for this living person)





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3  M  Franklin Leonard Wheeler (details suppressed for this living person)





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