This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: wheeler Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/FCC.2ACE/1970 Message Board Post: I am looking for information on John Wheeler. He was b. about 1850 in France, Germany, Virginia / West Virginia. He was married to Alethia Susan M Cochran 1869 and resided in Mason & Kanawha counties in West Virginia. Descendents lived in Ohio Valley in both West Virginia & Ohio. Place of Birth and Death are a mystery to me. Marriage & 1870 Census data for John indicate France; 1870 Census show VA. Later data for children shows father born in Germany. Any help is greatly appreciated Additional Information Spouse Alethia Susan M Cochran b: ABT 1853 in Kanawha Co., Virginia Father: Caleb Cochran b: MAR 1827 in Virginia Mother: Malinda Ann Buckle b: JUN 1837 in Virginia Married: 12 AUG 1869 in Kanawha Co., West Virginia Death Record: West Virginia: Mason County: Lizzia Wheeler, white, female, d. 2 January 1890 in Kanawha Co. WV; cause: unknown; age 39; d/o C & E Cochrin, b. in Mason Co., reported by John Wheeler, husband Marriage Record: West Virginia: Kanawha County: 12 August 1869 by R Cadwallender, John Wheeler, age 22, b. France, parents: John & Rosa, laborer Susan M Cochran, age 16, b. Kanawha; parents: Caleb & Malinda Ann Children Elizabeth B Wheeler b: 8 FEB 1872 in Waggener District, Mason Co., WV John Wheeler b: 12 FEB 1874 in Waggener District, Mason Co., WV Ella Wheeler b: APR 1876 in Waggener District, Mason Co., WV Lula B Wheeler b: SEP 1878 in Mason Co., WV William Robert Wheeler b: 31 JAN 1881 in Mason Co., WV Samuel T Wheeler b: 22 MAY 1885 in Mason Co., WV Sherman A Wheeler b: 18 MAY 1886 in Mason Co., WV Mary A Wheeler b: ABT 13 OCT 1889 in Kanawha Co., WV West Virginia & Ohio Counties of Interest WV – Brooke, Cabell, Hancock, Jackson, Kanawha, Marshall, Mason, Ohio, Pleasants, Preston, Taylor, Tyler, Wayne, Webster, Wetzel, Wood OH – Athens, Belmont, Columbiana, Gallia, Jefferson, Lawrence, Meigs, Monroe, Washington.