Emily (Search) WHEELER

CONKINGS, WHEELER, SEARCH, HINMAN, SHARPE, SHARP

Posted By: Sarah Thorson Little (email)
Date: 8/21/2013 at 13:46:24

June 18, 1842 --- March 28, 1913

DEATH REMOVES MRS. WHEELER

Aged Mother of Mrs. John Conkings died last Friday.

Mrs. Emily Wheeler, mother of Mrs. John Conkings died at the Conkings home in this city Friday 28th after an illness of three months. She suffered a stroke of paralysis about four years ago and never entirely recovered. She failed rapidly following a sick spell last December. The funeral was held at the Conkings home Sunday afternoon with Rev. Wilkinson and the Methodist quartette, Messrs, Eversz and Gross and Mrs. E. M. Thebiay and Miss McCurry furnishing the music. The pall bearers were Noble Hicks, M. Walin, Dr. McGregor, Simon Lalor, C. M. Spangler and Penry Evans. The interment was in the Conkings lot in Rose Hill cemetery.

Emily Search was born near Pittsburg, Pennsylvania, June 18, 1842. When she was eight years old she moved with her parents to Miami County Ohio where in 1862 she was married to Joseph Wheeler. To this union twelve children were born, six dying in infancy, one son dying in 1898 just the day before her husband died, both deaths occurring near Los Angeles, California where they had made their home since 1895. Mr. and Mrs. Wheeler settled near Parkersburg Iowa in 1864 where they resided until their removal to California. Mrs. Wheeler came back to Iowa to make her home with her daughter, Mrs. John Conkings on June 1912. The surviving children are Mrs. John Conkings Eagle Grove; C. H. Wheeler and Mrs. Chas. Hinman, Los Angeles; L. B. Wheeler, Rapid City, South Dakota; and Mrs. J. L. Sharpe, Independence. Mrs. Sharpe with her husband attended the funeral, also a brother S. Wheeler from Hampton. Thus has another wife and mother completed a life full of usefulness and duties well performed. She has passed over and beyond the shadows where she will receive a just and deserved reward.

CARD OF THANKS

We desire to thank our kind friends and neighbors for their loving care and thoughtfulness during the death and sickness of our beloved mother and grandmother. We are especially grateful for the many generous floral offerings, the choir, and minister, and all others whose kindness was most generously shown.

Mr. and Mrs. John Conkings and Family

April 3, 1913
EAGLE GROVE EAGLE - Iowa

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April 3, 1913
EAGLE GROVE TIMES GAZETTE - Iowa

Death of Emily Wheeler

Emily Search was born in Pittsburg, Pennsylvania June 18, 1842, died at Eagle Grove March 28, 1913. The deceased moved with her parents to Ohio when she was eight years of age. In 1860 she was married to Joseph Wheeler. Of this union there were born 12 children, five of whom are living. Two years after their marriage they moved to this state and lived near New Hartford, then at Parkersburg. In 1895 Mr. and Mrs. Wheeler moved to California. It was here that Mr. Wheeler died in the year 1898. The deceased lived in California until last June when she came to Eagle Grove to live with her daughter, Mrs. John Conkings.

Mrs. Wheeler was a faithful member of the M. E. church at the time of her death and had been for many years. Three daughters, two sons, five sisters and two brothers and many relatives and friends mourn her loss. The funeral service was conducted by Rev. Wilkinson of the M. E. church from the home of Mr. John Conkings at 2:30 pm Sunday.

The children who are left to mourn the death of their mother are: Mrs. John Conkings of Eagle Grove; Chas. H. Wheeler and Mrs. Lizzie Hinman of Los Angeles; L. P. Wheeler of Rapid City, South Dakota; and Mrs. J. L. Sharp of Independence; also five sisters living in Ohio and two brothers in Nebraska.