Roy and others, I have this listing on JOHN WHEELER regarding service at YORKTOWN. I also have a JOHN WHEELER who was granted land in Oakland area following the war. I have been trying to separate fact from fiction on my 3rd Great-grandfather. [1[ From "History of Upshur County" (located in the Charles Gibson Public Library, 105 East Main St.., Buckhannon, Upshur Co., WV, 26201, Phone/Fax (304) 472-2339. pp598-599.: "John Worthington Wheeler, merchant and farmer, Malta, WVa. Born October 25, 1851. Citizen of Barbour County, son of Abram Wheeler, soldier in Union army, and Elizabeth (White) Wheeler. Grandfather, John Wheeler, was a Presbyterian preacher of England and emigrated to this country before the Revolutionary War, in which he was a soldier under Washington, and was present at the surrender at Yorktown. Grandfather was the owner of twenty slaves, whom he liberated early in the nineteenth century for conscience sake. Phil Wheeler