She was born November 07, 1902 in the dugout (south of Robertson) and died December 08, 1945. The daughter and first born of Rufus Marshall Wheeler and Esther Rebecca Murray. She graduated from Texas Tech and was a school teacher. She taught at Acuff, Cone and Wake. She wrote poems and little stories for her mother that were cherished.
"She had written to Mama and Papa when to meet her at the bus. She was not at the bus station when they arrived to pick her up. They hunted and hunted for us to let us know she was missing before she (Grace) was supposed to come home, but there was no phone at our house so they really had no way to reach us. The Texas Rangers had been called out to help in the search, and Ralph and Marvin Aycock and others went and looked and looked for her. There was no apparent cause of death. Her body was finally found in the Rio Grand River (Truth or Consequences New Mexico).
A man and his son (one of Grace's students) were riding in their wagon into town and the little boy said that they had seen Grace walking beside the river by herself and he called out to her but she didn't act like she even knew him. Several people said that they had seen her, but I don't know if they every really proved that they had seen Grace.
Grace had gone missing two weeks before Christmas and it was almost Christmas when they even found her body. The funeral was right at Christmas time and Grace's death hit Papa hard." told to me by Marcia Wheeler Lockwood.
She was teaching school and had to come home during depression. The school she was teaching at could not pay her anymore. It was right before Christmas and she mysteriously was found in a lake, dead. Maybe she was depressed about being older, unmarried and having to move back home to mom and dad and took her life. No one really knows, she could have met with foul play. Some people in my family think she was murdered, but grandmother had told me she felt like she committed suicide. It was probably just to hard for her to face going home with no job. She was 43 and I imagine she was probably never going to get married.
Submitted by Connie Bryant Mounsey
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