Genealogical note for Eliza Jane Wheeler's obituary Eliza Jane Runyon (16 Jan 1843 - 6 Nov 1920) father: William Runyon (1807, Montgomery Co. - 5 Jul 1879) mother: Martha Kelly (1803 - after 1880) husband: William Raleigh Wheeler (22 Feb 1834, Grayson Co. - 12 Aug 1918) Quartermaster Sergeant, Co. B, 51st Virginia Infantry, CSA married: 18 Jun 1877, Pulaski Co. father: Newton Wheeler (27 Sep 1804, Rockingham Co., NC - 29 Jan 1883, Wythe) mother: Nancy Wills (24 Mar 1802, Grayson - 29 Jun 1885, Wythe) Newton and Nancy buried at old Wheeler home, Patterson, Wythe Eliza and William buried at Runyon Family Cemetery, Shiloh. children: Julia Anne Wheeler (27 Dec 1878 - 25 Mar 1957) Draper Cemetery husband: Otey Lee Gunn (17 May 1876 - 1942) William Tate Wheeler (8 Apr 1880 - 18 Mar 1922) Runyon Cemetery Lucy Edna Wheeler (21 Jan 1882 - 7 Jul 1926) Runyon Cemetery husband: Cephas Marcellus "Seldon" Runyon Sr. (6 Sep 1873 - 1 Apr 1964) married: 25 jan 1898 First wife of William Raleigh Wheeler: Mary Bailey Lindsey (10 Nov 1841 - 16 Mar 1875, Wythe) married: 5 May 1861, Pulaski father: Jesse Lindsey (29 Jan 1799 - 8 Apr 1875) mother: Catherine Kelly (8 Aug 1807 - after 1880) Step children mentioned in Eliza Jane Wheeler obituary, all born Wythe Co.: Mary F. Wheeler (b. 10 Mar 1875) husband: William M. Gott (b. Apr 1869) married: 29 Mar 1899, Pulaski Albert Sidney Johnston Wheeler (23 Jul 1867 - 27 Feb 1958, Hopewell) wife: Frances Jeanette Runyon (7 Aug 1882 - 25 Mar 1937) married: 14 Feb 1903, Pulaski Both buried St John's Episcopal Church Cemetery, Hopewell Eliza Jane "Jennie" Wheeler (9 Jan 1865 - 5 Jun 1956, Knoxville, Knox, TN) husband: Joseph Patton Davis (21 Jan 1858 - 23 Aug 1918) married: 23 Oct 1889, Knoxville, Knox, TN Emily Isabelle "Belle" Wheeler (27 Feb 1862 - 24 Apr 1963, Morristown, Hamblen, TN) husband: William Thomas Hurst (16 Mar 1850 - 7 Feb 1914, Hamblen Co., TN) married: 26 May 1880, Pulaski Nancy Columbia Wheeler (16 Jun 1870 - 24 Jul 1861) husband: Emmit Edward Malcom (14 Mar 1870 - 4 May 1959) married: 23 Aug 1895, Grainger Co., TN Both buried at Mount Pleasant Methodist Church Cemetery, Jefferson Co., TN Katherine Kelly Wheeler (2 Nov 1868 - 15 Jan 1935, Washington Co., VA) Joseph and Jennie Davis, Thomas and Belle Hurst, and Kate Wheeler all buried at Bethesda Church Cemetery, Hamblen Co., TN Mitochondrial DNA tests taken in 2003 by direct maternal descendants of Eliza Jane Runyon and Mary Bailey Lindsey, the wives of William Raleigh Wheeler, showed an exact match, confirming a theory that they were first cousins, that their mothers - Martha Kelly Runyon and Catherine Kelly Lindsey - were sisters, and that their common grandparents were John Kelly (b. Ireland - d. before 10 Feb 1824) and Elizabeth Cummins (c 1772, VA - after 1850). The Kelly family lived on Max Creek. Bill Hurst