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From a History of Walker Co, GA by james Alfred Sartain, volume I, page 459 regarding Wheeler family states: Benjamin Neeley Wheeler and his wife, Rebecca Bridgeman were each born in England, according to family records, he in 1793 and she in 1797. Settling first in Virginia, they came later to Tennessee. Two brothers came over with him, one going to Arkansas and the other to Alabama. Benjamin Wheeler finally made a settlement at the spot where is now East Lake Park, near Chattanooga, using the family drinking water from the spring at that place. About 1830 he removed to Walker county, settling this time at Crawfish Spring, moving later to LaFayete where he lived till his death in 1841. he was taken to Chatanooga for burial, perhaps because there was no well-established burying ground in the county at that time. They had three sons, Calvin C., william M. and John B. all of whom spent most of their lives in the county. This would mean that Rebecca could be daughter of Franklin & Rhoda OR I still believe that there was also a Francis who was also in Wythe and who then moved into Trigg Co, GA and died and left his wife Judith THOMPSON Bridgman there in 1840. These children moved into Alabama and some of them moved on into Texas and a descendant lives about 25 miles from me here. There is more information on the Wheelers than I have recorded here if you want info on their descendants. They may have the clue to all this if we find a descendant and I just read that several of them moved to Dallas and McKinney, TX. The John B. Wheeler was born in 1829 in Campbell Co, TN so that fits the William, John, and who else moved in the Bridgman family there? Wow! When we get this thing moving hard to tell how the fallout will be.He and his family lived and died in Walker Co, GA.
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