Personal
Oran Wheeler and family moved to Crosby County from Globe, Lamar County in 1918. Mr. Wheeler farmed west of Cone for some years and then bought a place three miles east of Cone, where he farms and runs a Grade A dairy.He has about thirty cows. Some of his stock is from the J.C. Phifer farm of Summer, Illinois, and the Henry Knolle Farm of Sanda, Texas, the largest Jersey herd in the world.
Mr. Wheeler sells milk to the McIlhaney Dairy at Lubbock. The Wheelers belong to the Baptist Church at Cone and have been a great help in all the church and school work. They have four children, Mrs. Dan James, Paul and Silas and Margy.
Paul married Miss Wilma Spikes. They have two sons, Joe Ellis and Billy of Cone. Silas married Miss Margaret Fuller. They have a daughter, Jeanette. Silas owns a farm and has dairy cows. Jelora and Dan have lived around Cone since thier marriage and have many friends.
Obituary
Willie Oren Wheeler, 79, a Cone resident since 1919, died Saturday in Ralls Convalescent Home.Services were conducted Monday in the Cone Baptist Church with the Rev. Carl Neal, pastor, and Elder Joe Jackson, pastor of the Floydada Primitive Baptist Church officiating. Burial was in the Ralls Cemetery directed by Carter Funeral Home here.
A native of Paris, Wheeler came to cone from Crosby County. He was married to Clara Edna Holcome in 1909 at Paris.
Survivors include his wife; two sons, Silas and Paul, both of Cone; two daughters, Mrs. Dan James of Cone and Mrs. Dennis Harmon of Broken Bow, Okla; three brothers, Porter of Ralls and E.D. and Doyle, both of Paris; a sister, Mrs. Herman Flowers of Paris; six grandchildren and three great grandchildren.
Ralls Banner, Wednesday, October 7, 1970
Record provided by Crosby County Pioneer Memorial Museum
transcribed by Linda Fox Hughes
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