Obit: Wheeler, Mary E. (1838 - 1915)

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 Surnames: Davis, Wheeler, Verity, Drake, Newman

 ----Source:  Evansville Review, p. 4, col. 3, Evansville, Wisconsin - March 4, 1915

Wheeler, Mary E. (1838 - MAR 1915)

 DEATH OF MRS. M. E. WHEELER (1838 – 1915)

Mary E. Davis was born in the state of New York in 1838. She was married to Rev. L. N. Wheeler at Fond du Lac, Wis., in 1857. Rev. and Mrs. Wheeler went as missionaries of the Methodist Episcopal church to China first in the fall of 1865, going by sailing vessel around the Cape of Good Hope, taking six years in South China she with her husband went to Peking, where they founded our first mission in that city. After seven years of service they returned to the home land owing to failing health. Twice after this they went back to the work, making in all twelve years of service in the foreign field.

Twice she left loved children in this land to complete their education, this being one of the greatest trials of her life. The last time out she buried her husband in Shanghai, China, returning alone in the spring of 1893. Also there are three little graves in Peking, China, where she laid to rest two daughters and her only son.

Nine children were born to this union, of whom five survive her: Mrs. Francis W. Verity, who has given thirty-three years of her life to mission work in China, and at present with her husband, Rev. G. W. Verity, is spending her vacation in this country; Mrs. Carrie A. Drake of Withee, Wis.; Agnes M. Wheeler of Geneva, with whom her mother has made her home for the past eight years; Mrs. Lucy E. Newman of Los Angeles, Cal., and L. Maud Wheeler of Tien Tsin, China, where she is engaged in missionary work. There are seven grand children and six great grand children. Also of her father's family there survive two brothers and one sister.

Since the death of her husband in June, 1893, Mrs. Wheeler has devoted her life unsparingly to promoting the cause of foreign missions. Her earnest work has produced large results and her efforts to spread information about this branch of church work and create enthusiasm for its support will continue to bear fruit for many years to come. -- Nebraska Signal, Geneva, Neb.

The husband of Mrs. Wheeler was pastor of the Methodist Episcopal church of Evansville in 1889. Mrs. Wheeler is remembered by a good many people of this vicinity.    

 

 


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