Sources of Information  

This page last updated: 30 Apr 2014

This is a partial listing of some of the published sources referenced in the Wheeler Genealogy pages. If you find others that are referenced in this web site, please let me know and I will add them here.

 

 

Title: Gone But Not Forgotten, Volumes 1 & 2.
Author/Compiler: Verla Fleck Young
Publisher: Patricia S. Davis
This is a set of two volumes that contain extracts of obituaries and death notices from White County, Illinois area newspapers from 1819 through 1940.
 

Title: The Illinois Gazette, Volumes 1 & 2.
Author/Compiler: Rebecca Schmook
Publisher: Hamilton County Historical Society

This is a set of two volumes that contain extracts from the early 1800s Illinois newspaper published in Gallatin County, Illinois.
 
Title: Legacy of Kin, Hamilton County, Illinois. Volume 1 & 2.
Author/Compilier: Harold Guy Felty
Publisher: AIBA Publishing Co. Copyright 1994.
Reprinted by: The Genealogy Society of Southern Illinois, c/o John A. Logan College, 700 Logan College Road, Carterville, IL. 62918-2500
This is a set of two volumes that contain "Relationships, Vital Statistics, Marriages abstracted from Obituaries and Notices in Hamilton County Newspapers" from 1859 to 1992. Each book consists of over 1000 pages of extracted information.
 
Title: The McCubbins Collection.
Author/Compiler: Mame (Mary Louisa) Gaskill McCubbins
A collection of Rowan County, NC genealogy related notes compiled by Mame McCubbins. There is a detailed description of her located here.
We also have a scans of some pages here.
 
Title: William Wheeler Sr.'s will.
The copy of the will recorded in HCI Will book A pages 5 & 6. A copy shown here.