Arabella Elizabeth Wheeler

Notes:

Daughter of George & Phebe Wheeler.
Wife of William H. Handley

(birth date from "The Family of Benjamin & Celia Wheeler..." by Harriette M. Wheeler)

In an article• about her brother, Ulysses, a minister, it reads:

In June 1829 Wheeler received a diploma from the General Theological Seminary of the Protestant Episcopal Church, New York. In September 1830 he was appointed "a Domestic Missionary" by the church's Domestic and Foreign Missionary Society. For the next five years, Wheeler served various churches in Mississippi and Louisiana. There are two letters in 1830 (3 January and 6 December) in which Wheeler was informed of his election as rector of St. John's Church, Port Gibson, and Christ Church, Jefferson County, Miss. **During the year the death of his sister prompted Wheeler to compose "Thoughts upon the Death of my Sister Eliza, who deceased August 15 (Sunday) 1830—aged 23 years" (27 August 1830) which was published the following month in The Sunday Visiter; and Sunday School Magazine.**

•John DeWitt McCollough Papers 1824-1900

Arabella married William Handley about 1825. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]