Wheeler Family Heritage

Louisa Evans Born: Aug. 16, 1844, Richland County, IL Died: March 1, 1935, Fairfield, Wayne County, IL Buried:  March 3, 1935, Maple Hill Cemetery, Fairfield, Wayne County, IL Married: 1) Jonas Gill 1864 in Clay County, IL. He was born Jan. 13, 1837 in England and died Feb. 23, 1867 and is buried in Foster Hill Cemetery in Clay City, Clay County, IL.  Jonas immigrated from Liverpool to the U.S. arriving in New York City on June 30, 1858, age 22 aboard the City of New York ,  On the ships passenger list it states that he was a mason heading for Illinois. He served in the Civil War in Company A of the 98th Illinois Infantry.  Jonas was listed as being 5'9" with black hair, blue eyes and a dark complexion and living in Flora, working as a mason. He joined up on Aug. 9, 1862 in Clay Co., and mustered in on Sept. 3, 1862 at Camp Centralia, IL.  Jonas mustered out June 27, 1865 in Nashville, Tennessee. 2) Nathaniel Behymer  September 1, 1870, Noble, Richland County, I

Aerial View of Mill Shoals Mill Shoals - This village is situated on sections 19 and 20, on the banks of Skillet Fork. The land is very level, and was originally owned by William Linder.  The village was laid out in 1869 by Judge Boggs, of Wayne County, who received one half of forty acres for the work. There is now a population of about 275 persons.  There is a flouring mill, owned by Samuel Burrell, and run by water-power; a saw-mill, owned by the Behymer Co., doing a large business; a lumber manufactory, where lumber is prepared for the market; two general stores - Behymer & Co. and Upton & Laster; two groceries, one hotel, two doctors, and a good school, taught by B.F. Files. [ History of White County, Illinois, Together with Sketches of Its Cities, Villages & Townships, Educational, Religious, Civil, Military & Political History, 1883] According to Loren Taylor & Stephanie Bare in their History of Mill Shoals Nathaniel Behymer purchased Wakefield's s

Nathaniel Behymer Born: June 29, 1822, Ohio Died: November 9, 1896, Mill Shoals, White Co., IL Buried: Shrewsbury Cemetery, Mill Shoals, White County, IL Married: 1) Sarah Burton/Davis?, Nov. 11, 1841 in Clermont Co., OH, she died in 1854. There is a marriage license in Ohio between Nathaniel Behymer & Sarah Burton. The biographical sketch says she was the daughter of Reason Davis. This may have been a second marriage for her. 2) Nancy Gordon, Sept. 24, 1854 in Ripley Co., IN, she died Dec. 24, 1865 3) Mary Jane Brooks, Feb. 18, 1866 in Richland Co., IL, she died April 21, 1870 4) Louisa (Evans) Gill, Sept. 1, 1870 in Noble, Richland Co., IL Nathaniel Behymer, merchant, lumber deal and manufacturer of lumber, plow and wagon timber; postoffice, Mill Shoals; is the first child of John and Jane (Meeker) Behymer, natives of Virginia and New Jersey respectively. They moved to Ohio with their parents, married and moved to Indiana, and then to Missouri, thence to Illinois,