Wheeler Family Cemetery, Gibson County, Tennessee

Wheeler Family Cemetery

Milan, Gibson County, Tennessee

Submitted on October 6, 2004 by : Adam D. McCartney

Located on the Shoaf farm just north of Milan�s city limits, the Wheeler plot used to have estimated 10 to 15 tombstones, however, cultivation in the adjacent field is though to have destroyed or buried almost all of the stones.  Today, only two stones remain in the extremely overgrown plot of land.  O. H. (Buck) Ford took me to the remains of the cemetery, which is just behind his home and land.  (Information provided by O. H. �Buck� Ford.)

Directions:  From Milan Elementary School:  Travel east on Middle Road.  Go straight through the intersection with Gann Road/Wahl Street.  Turn left after Milan Middle School on Salem Road.  Travel a little less than a mile.  The cemetery is about a quarter to half mile off the road on the left, in a field.

The transcription of the remaining two stones is as follows:

John A.,

Husband of Dreusiler & A. E.

WHEELER

Born May 18, 1825

Died Feb. 1, 1891

 
Drusiller,

Wife of J. A.

WHEELER

Born Sept. 29, 1827

Died Jan. 17, 1868

 

(Note:  spellings of Dreusiler, Drusiller are very legible.  They were spelled differently on the two rocks.)

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