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Maj Oliver Perry Wheeler

Maj Oliver Perry Wheeler

Male 1826 - 1880  (54 years)   Has 7 ancestors and one descendant in this family tree.


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  • Name Oliver Perry Wheeler
    Prefix Maj
    Birth 1825/1826  Marion Dist, SC Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Gender Male
    _UID F4C0888DD2DAD4118AC4444553540000D815 
    Death 1870/1880  Marion Co, SC Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Person ID I1972  Marty and Karla Grant
    Last Modified 10 Nov 2012

    Father Edward B Wheeler, General,   b. 1802/1803, NC Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 28 Sep 1859, Marion Dist, SC Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 56 years)
    Mother Clara L Legette,   b. 1813/1814, Marion Dist, SC Find all individuals with events at this locationd. Abt 1880, Marion Co, SC Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 66 years)
    Marriage 6 Nov 1833  Marion Dist, SC Find all individuals with events at this location 
    _UID 27D4596F6B2B2A408BC4B8BF9B25626B16E7 
    Family ID F1304  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family 1 Mary A Haselden,   b. 1825, Marion Dist, SC Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 26 Jul 1853, Marion Dist, SC Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 28 years)
    Marriage Bef 1850  Marion Dist, SC Find all individuals with events at this location 
    _UID A538A1FF32A0EA488D8253244C040CD83B05 
    Children 
     1. Mary G Wheeler,   b. 1851/1852, Marion Dist, SC Find all individuals with events at this location
    Family ID F1307  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 21 Aug 2026

    Family 2 Susan W Cherry,   b. 1829/1830, Marion Dist, SC Find all individuals with events at this locationd. Aft 1880, Marion Co, SC Find all individuals with events at this location (Age > 51 years)
    Marriage 1855/1870  Marion Dist, SC Find all individuals with events at this location 
    _UID 0AF886AA391836469F56E99730A82F19944E 
    Family ID F1535  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 21 Aug 2026

  • Notes 
    • !REFERENCE: A History of Marion County, South Carolina From Its Earliest Times to the Present, 1901, by W. W. Sellers, Esq., of the Marion Bar. 1902. pp. 142-147
      ...
      James Crawford, the father of Chapman J. Crawford, married Miss Rachel Nevils, and by her bad two sons, Chapman J. and William H., and three or four daughters ; one married Peter P. Johnson, of Fayetteville, N. C. ; one married D. C. Milling, of Darlington, and one married D. J. McDonald, long a merchant at Marion, and Representative from Marion in the State Legislature in 1850, and finally failing in his business, removed to Arkansas. James Crawford, the second, was a very prosperous man, left a large estate, and died in the prime of life. His widow, Rachel, married Dr. Cherry, and by him had several daughters; one of them married, first. Dr. Richard Scarborough, of Marion; he soon died childless, and his widow then married Major O. P. Wheeler, and after some years he died, and she remained his widow for several years, when she died. Another daughter of Mrs. Cherry became the wife of the late C. Graham, of Marion ; she died before he did, and left an only child, a son, Herbert C. Graham, now residing in Marion. Another daughter, Sarah Jane, became the wife of Dr. J. Hamilton Wheeler, who died and left her a widow with two children, Ed. B. Wheeler and Tiston C. Wheeler, now residing in Marion ; their mother, Sarah Jane, still lives. Dr. Cherry, a most excellent and upright man, died away back in the '40's ; he was a well-to-do man. ;


      !CENSUS:1850 Marion Dist, SC # 244 Oliver P. WHEELER, 24 (1825/26) born Marion;

      !NAMED-EQUITY ROLL # 116 Marion Dist., SC 8 May 1854 William Haselden
      Stephen G. Godbold and wife Elizabeth vs William Haseldeon et all. Bill for partition and relief ...
      On 5 Dec 1811 William Haseldeon exec his Will and soon died leaving widow Mary who afterwards married John Fore, whom she also survived and the following children:
      John Haselden (see below)
      Anna Brown afterwards Anna Bacot wife of Cyrus Bacot who survived her
      James Haselden died prior to his mother
      William B Haselden
      Mary Cox wife of William Cox. (Mary died leaving dau Sarah wife of Asa Godbold.)
      and the oratrix Elizabeth Godbold
      ...
      Mary died Feb 1584
      John d. 1834 intest. leaving widow Elizabeth and children Jane now wife of C. D. Evans, Hugh G. Haselden, Cyrus B. Haselden a minor.
      Widow Elizabeth married David Monroe and died leaving husband and two other children (minors) James and Franklin Monroe.
      Ann wife of Cyrus Bacot of Darlington died about 185- without issue.
      William B. Haselden died about 184- int leaving widow Sarah and children John, James, Caroline Elizabeth who has married J. F. Killen, William Edward a minor, Stephen a minor, Mary who married O. P. Wheeler and who died before her mother leaving husband and an infant child Mary, and Sarah who married A. L. Gregg and died leaving infant child July surviving.;

      !CENSUS:1860;

      !CENSUS:1870 Marion Co, SC Rowell # 24
      Oliver P. WHEELER, 44 SC
      Susan W., 40
      Mary G., 18;


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