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Wheeler suffered from several illnesses throughout his life and was in increasingly poor health during his later years. [3] He died at his home at 10:10 a.m. on Saturday, June 4, 1887. [19] The funeral was held at the Congregational church in Malone. [20] He was interred next to his wife in Malone's Morningside Cemetery on June 7, 1887. [21]
Wheeler recorded a couple of albums for Monitor Records, then from 1961 to 1962 he attended the Yale School of Drama, majoring in playwriting. [2] With Ewel Cornett, he co-wrote the musical Hatfields and McCoys , which has been performed annually since 1970 by Theatre West Virginia in the Grandview Cliffside Amphitheatre (part of the New River ...
He was involved in starting the kaolin mining industry to Sandersville. [2] He was mayor of Sandersville from 1948 to 1952, a member Georgia State Senate from 1947 to 1949 and of the Georgia House of Representatives from 1949 to 1953, and a member of the Georgia delegation to the Democratic National Convention in 1952 and 1956. [2] [3] [4]
This fever left Wheeler with chronic rheumatism for the rest of his life. [1] In 1865, Wheeler left the army with an honorable discharge and moved to Indianapolis in 1866. There he became a wagon delivery driver for the Layman-Carey Hardware Company, and later the head of sales. Wheeler experienced a religious conversion in 1868. A letter to ...
A California man was among the hundreds pardoned on Jan. 20 for their role in the 2021 attack on the U.S. Capitol – but he turned himself in for a federal prison sentence days later.
Sandersville was home to the minor league baseball teams, the Sandersville Giants (1955–1956) and Sandersville Wacos (1953–1954). Sandersville played in the Class D Georgia State League (GSL) from 1953 to 1956 and played at Sandersville Baseball Park. Baseball Hall of Fame inductee Willie McCovey played for the Sandersville Giants in 1955 ...
John Parsons Wheeler III (December 14, 1944 – c. December 30, 2010), known as Jack Wheeler, was an American veteran, businessman, and activist, who held multiple positions in the U.S. government for five decades and helped create the Vietnam Veterans Memorial. He was murdered by an unknown person in or around Wilmington, Delaware, in 2010.
Born near Alma, Georgia, Wheeler attended the public schools and South Georgia College at Douglas, Georgia, Middle Georgia College at Cochran, Georgia, Georgia Teachers College at Statesboro, Georgia, and Atlanta Law School, where he received a Bachelor of Laws in 1966. He was a farmer and a teacher.