Residents of Wheeler Grove Settlement
Pottawattamie County, Iowa
Residents
1850 U. S. Census, Pottawattamie County, Iowa
Luke Johnson enumerated the Wheelers Grove area on September 28, 1850, beginning with Dwelling #543. He concluded on September 29 with Dwelling #552. There may be an overlap of Farm Creek, Macedonia and Wheeler’s Grove. The following families with their age and occupation were listed. Corrected names are listed in parenthesis and typed in bold.
Dwelling #543George Graybill (age 29) (farmer)
Mary Graybill (age 27) (wife)
Hannah Graybill (age 8)
Brigham Graybill (age 7)
George Graybill (age 4)
Polly Graybill (age 1)
Other family members not listed
John Graybill (born 1851)
The Graybill family did not go west. Most of them stayed in Pottawattamie County, Iowa.
This family was enumerated in the previous Dwelling #532
Dwelling #544W. A. Boyd (age 24) (labourer) (William Alfred Cornelius Boyd)
Elenor Boyd (age 21) (wife) (Barbara Eleanor Ballard Boyd)
Other family members not listed
John Newton Boyd (born 1850)
Nesbit Allen Boyd (born 1852)
William and Eleanor may have lived in Potter’s Camp. The couple may have divorced as Barbara married Cornelius Green McIntosh in 1854. By 1860, Cornelius and Eleanor were living in Honey Creek, Pottawattamie County, Iowa.
Dwelling #545Phillip Ballard (age 48) (wagon maker) (Phillip Larkin Ballard)
Elisabeth Ballard (age 44) (wife) (Elizabeth Shumate Ballard)
William Ballard (age 13) (William Baston Ballard)
Lydia Ballard (age 11) (Lydia S. Ballard)
Nancy Ballard (age 9) (Nancy J. Ballard)
Phillip Ballard (age 7)
James Ballard (age 2) (James Sullivan Ballard)
Other family members not listed
Sarah Anna Ballard (born 1824) (married Martin Potter of Potter’s Camp)
Lucinda Ballard (born 1826; died 1839)
Julia Newton Ballard (born 1830; died 1839)
The family came west with an unknown company in 1856. They settled in Payson, Utah County, Utah.
Dwelling #546Julius Lathrop (age 46) (brickmaker)
Ann Lathrop (age 24) (wife) (Ruth Ann Eliza Pickard Lathrop)
Alma Lathrop (age 5) (Alma J. Lathrop)
Ammon Lathrop (age 1)
Julius died in 1855 while living in Holt County, Missouri. “Annie” married Alvin Owens in 1857 while living in Holt County, Missouri.
Jane Pickard (age 70) (Jane Coleman Pickard) (mother of Ruth Ann Eliza Pickard Lathrop)
The family moved to Holt County, Missouri where Julius died. The combined families of Alvin Owens and Annie Lathrop were still living there in 1860.
Dwelling #547Michael Jacobs (age 56) (carpenter)
Emily Jacobs (age 43) (wife) (Emily Sophia Lathrop Jacobs) (daughter of Grant Lathrop and Sybil Bliss Lathrop Frink Hoagland Jacobs)
Sybil Jacobs (age 10) (daughter of Joseph Jefferson Frink and Emily Sophia Lathrop Frink Hoagland Jacobs)
Asahel Jacobs (age 7) (son of Henry Hoagland and Emily Sophia Lathrop Frink Hoagland Jacobs)
Hyrum Jacobs (age 4) (son of Henry Hoagland and Emily Sophia Lathrop Frink Hoagland Jacobs)
Emily Jacobs (age 2) (daughter of Michael Jacobs and Emily Sophia Lathrop)
Other family members not listed
Children of Joseph Jefferson Frink and Emily Sophia Lathrop
Olive Frink (born 1825; died 1840)
John Randolph Frink (born 1829)
Horace Monroe Frink (born 1831)
Emily Sophia Lathrop was first married to Joseph Jefferson Frink in 1824. After the birth of 4 children, the couple were probably divorced. Emily then married Henry Hoagland in 1842. They had two children. Henry died in 1846. Emily then married Michael Jacobs in 1846. Michael was married previously. On the 1840 U. S. Census, it shows a male child which was probably Erastus V. Jacobs who was born in 1822. Emily probably died at Wheelers Grove in 1850. Michael was a Seventy and may have been on a mission in Nebraska when he died in 1850.
Sybil Jacobs (age 60) (Sarah Bliss Lathrop Jacobs) (mother of Emily Sophia Lathrop Frink Hoagland Jacobs)
Sybil was first married to Grant Lathrop. He died in 1823. She then married Henry Jacobs in 1838 while in Lee County, Iowa. He died in Nauvoo in 1844. Sybil moved to Riverside County, California where she died in 1879.
Dwelling #548Sanford Jackson (age 40) (farmer) (Sanford Jacobs)
Susannah Jackson (age 38) (wife) (Susannah Harmon Jacobs)
Emily Jackson (age 12) (Emily Jacobs)
George Jackson (age 9) (George Harmon Jacobs)
Mary Ann Jackson (age 8) (Mary Ann Jacobs)
Hannah Jackson (age 6) (Hannah Jacobs)
Sanford served as a Private in Company C of the Mormon Battalion. The family moved to Jones County, Iowa. Susannah died there in 1855.
Dwelling #549Reuben Hartwell (age 41) (farmer) (Reuben Parker Hartwell)
Lucinda Hartwell (age 41) (wife) (Lucinda Almeda Merritt Hartwell)
Caroline Hartwell (age 16) (Caroline Mary Louisa Hartwell)
Dexter Hartwell (age 14) (Dexter Perry Hartwell)
George Hartwell (age 12) (George Walter Hartwell)
Carlos Hartwell (age 10) (Hiram Carlos Hartwell)
Emiline Hartwell (age 5) (Emeline Almira Hartwell)
Joseph Hartwell (age 2) (Joseph Parker Hartwell)
The family stayed in Pottawattamie County, Iowa.
Dwelling #550Enoch King (age 42) (farmer)
Parthena King (age 32) (wife) (Mary Parthena Patience O’Dell King)
Elijah King (age 15) (Elijah Dewey King)
Asher King (age 12) Asher B. King)
Joel King (age 9) (Joel Burnell King)
Joseph King (age 5) (Joseph Edwin King)
The family did not go west. They settled in the Michigan and Wisconsin areas.
Dwelling #551Pleasant Taylor (age 40) (farmer)
Jane Taylor (age 41) (Jane Allison Taylor)
James Taylor (age 20) (farmer) (James Allison Taylor)
Mary Taylor (age 18) ( Mary Alice Taylor)
Pleasant Taylor (age 11) (Pleasant M. Taylor)
William Taylor (age 9) (William H. Taylor)
The family did not go west. They moved to the Treynor, Pottawattamie County, Iowa area.
Other family members not listedThomas Taylor (born 1835)
Female Taylor (born 1840)
Dwelling #552
Jacob Myers (age 68) (millwright)
Sarah Myers (age 64)
Lavinia Myers (19)
Other members of the family not listed
Elizabeth Myers (born 1803)
Henry Myers (born 1804)
Mary Margaret Myers (born 1807)
George Myers (born 1809)
Hannah Myers (born 1811)
Nancy Myers (born 1813)
Jacob Myers, Jr. (born 1814)
Delilah Myers (born 1816)
Sarah Elizabeth Myers (born 1819)
Jeremiah Myers (born 1820)
John Myers (born and died 1823)
Rebecca Myers (born 1824)
Samuel Myers (born 1825)
Artemesia Sidnie Myers (born 1829)
The family either stayed in Iowa or stayed in Ohio where they were born. One child died in Nevada and one in Colorado.
It appears that more of the enumeration of the 1850 U. S. Census was done in the Wheeler Grove area after Indiantown and before the Upper Keg Creek area on November 29th.
Dwelling #1406Peter Tage (age 34) (none)
Emeline Tage (age 21) (wife)
Joseph Tage (age 7)
Isaac Tage (age 5)
Love Tage (age 2)
No information has been obtained about this family
Dwelling #1407George W. Oman (age 49) (laborer) (George Washington Oman)
Malvina Oman (age 38) (wife) (Melvina Graham Dickey Oman)
Abigail Oman (age 18) (Abigail Jane Oman)
John Oman (age 17)
Moroni Oman (age 9) (Moroni Dock Oman)
Marietta (age 7)
George Oman (age 5) (George Washington Oman, Jr.)
Joseph Oman (age 2) (Joseph Smith Oman)
George Washington Oman served as a 1st Lieutenant in Company A of the Mormon Battalion. He served as a Captain of a Company that came west in 1851. Eventually the family moved to California and affiliated with the RLDS Church.
Other family members not listedEliza Ann Oman (died 1839)
Alvira Jane Oman (died 1838)
Dwelling #1408
Eliza Oman (age 35) (daughter of George Oman and Anna Shoemaker and sister of George Washington Oman)
Came west with the George Washington Oman Company in 1852.
Laura Dickey (age 2) (daughter of Sebastian Raymond Dickey and Elizabeth Hubbard)
Sebastian was the brother of Melvina Graham Dickey Oman. His wife, Elizabeth Hubbard, had died before the census was taken, probably at Wheelers Grove. Laura had a sister, Permelia Victoria Dickey. On the 1850 U. S. Census, she, along with her father, were living with the Wilson A. Scott family in Polk County, Iowa.
Dwelling #1409John Winegar (age 30) (laborer) (John J. Winegar)
Elizabeth Winegar (age 21) (wife) (Elizabeth Martha Smith Winegar)
Henry Winegar (age 2) (Henry E. Winegar)
Susan Winegar (age 1) (Susan Ann Winegar)
This family stayed in or near Wheelers Grove. The following children were born there:
Samuel Thomas Winegar; John Jackson Winegar; Massie Almira Winegar; Nancy Jane Winegar; Albert Marshall Winegar; George Washington Winegar; Emma Elizabeth Winegar; Joseph Hyrum Winegar; and William Andrew Winegar.
Dwelling #1410David Burras (age 50) (none) (David Burrows)
Sarah Burras (age 51) (wife) (Sarah Creeland Burrows)
William Burras (age 22) (none) (William Creeland Burrows)
David Burrows died in Highland Grove II or Wheelers Grove on September 7, 1850. William and his mother, Sarah, came to Utah with the Allen Weeks Company in 1852.
Dwelling #1411James Watson (age 28) (none) (James Smith Watson)
Elizabeth Watson (age 25) (wife) (Jane Elizabeth McGee Watson)
Jonathan Watson (age 5) (Jonathan David Watson)
Mary Watson (age 3) (Mary Margaret Jane Watson)
Sarah Ann Watson (age 1) (Sarah Ann Watson)
Other family members not listed
William M. Watson (died 1845)
Dwelling #1412
Wesley Fletcher (age 15) (none)
Wesley was born in Canada and was found on the 1860 Census living in Mud Creek, Mills County, Iowa. He married Sarah Ann Barr. Orrin Dewitt Porter Rockwell (age 21) was living with them.
George Grayfoil (age 62) (none)
No other records have been found
Jacob Anderson (age 45) (Jacob Anderson Slogvig)Sarine Anderson (age 36) (wife) (Serine Tormodsdatter Madland Anderson)
Sarah Anderson (age 16) (Sarah Ann Anderson)
Marth Anderson (age 14) (Martha Jane Anderson)
Ingah Anderson (age 11) (Inga Isabelle Anderson)
Andrew Anderson (age 9) (Andrew Jackson Anderson)
Jacob Anderson (age 5) (Jacob Anderson)
Rachel Anderson (age 1) (Rachel Anderson)
The family moved to Napa County, California. After Jacob died, Serine joined the RLDS Church.
Dwelling #1413Isaac Losee (age 34) (none) (Isaac Huff Losee)
Sarah Losee (age 28) (wife) (Sarah Gilbert Losee)
Eliza Losee (age 8) (Eliza Jane Losee)
Rebecca Losee (age 6)
David Losee (age 3) (David Alama Losee)
Mary Losee (age 1)
Other family members not listed
Rufus Gilbert Losee (died 1841)
Isaac Huff Losee, Jr. (born 1851)
The Losee family came west with an unknown company in 1852. Moved from Sanpete County to Utah County to Garfield County.
Dwelling #1414Josiah Helser (age 30) (none) (Joshua Helser)
Martha Helse (age 28) (wife) (Martha Matilda Clinger Helser)
Lydia Helser (age 8) (Lydia Ann Helser)
Lavina (age 7) (Lovina Matilda Helser)
Other family members not listed
Harriet Amelia Helser (born 1847)
William Charles Helser (born 1851)
The Helser family joined the Strangite movement and moved to Wisconsin and then later joined the RLDS Church.
Dwelling #1415Mrs. Clinger (age 65) (Ann Nancy Reader Ashcom Clinger)
Ellin Clinger (age 5)
Mrs. Clinger was the mother of Martha Matilda Clinger Helser. Her husband, John Henry Clinger died in 1821. Ellin was her granddaughter. She was the daughter of Matilda’s son William and his wife Mary. William came west with the Daniel A. Miller/John W. Cooley Company in 1853. He died in 1854. His wife and children were located in Alton City, Madison County, Illinois on the 1860 U. S. Census.
Dwelling #1416Gurdon Hendrickson (age 45) (none) (Jordan Paddock Hendrickson)
Fanny Hendrickson (age 35) (wife) (Frances Kelly Humphrys Hendrickson)
William Hendrickson (age 15) (William Paddock Hendrickson) (son of Jordan Paddock Hendrickson and Margaret Darnell Hendrickson)
George Hendrickson (age 13) (son of Jordan Paddock Hendrickson and Margaret Darnell Hendrickson)
Alexander Hendrickson (age 1) (son of Jordan Paddock Hendrickson and Frances Kelly Humphrys)
Other family members not listed (children of Margaret Darnell)
Margaret Darnell Hendrickson (wife)
Nancy Ann Hendrickson (born 1831)
Mary Elizabeth Hendrickson (born 1832)
Harvey Hendrickson (born 1834)
Barbara Ellen Hendrickson (born 1836)
Lucy Jane Hendrickson (born 1840)
Martha Hendrickson (born 1841)
Mary Ann Taylor Hendrickson (wife) (died 1842)
Simon Paddock Hendrickson (son) (born 1841)
Marion B. Hendrickson (born October 1850) (son of Frances Kelly Humphrys Henrickson)
The families did not go west. They moved to Monona County, Iowa and affiliated with the RLDS Church.
Dwelling #1417James Parker (age 50)
Lucy Parker (age 45) (wife)
Amy Parker (age 15)
Ann Parker (age 14)
Nanch Parker (age 12) (Nancy Parker)
Pacience Parker (age 11) (Patience Parker)
Heber Parker (age 4)
Orson Parker (age 2)
No further information has been obtained for this family
Dwelling #1418Nathan Henderson (age 50) (age 56) (none)
Elizabeth Henderson (age 62) (wife)
Susan Henderson (age 20)
Sarah Henderson (age 17)
Margaret Henderson (age 14)
Sally Henderson (age 12)
James Henderson (age 11)
No further information has been obtained for this family
Dwelling #1419Isaac Moore (age 50) (none)
Prudence Moore (age 45) (wife)
Moses Moore (age 21) (none)
Samuel Moore (age 17) (none)
Jared Moore (age 15)
Samuel Moore (age 11)
Marinda Moore (age 6)
No further information has been obtained for this family
Other Sources
Wheelers Grove is named after Solomon Modee Barber Wheeler
Solomon Modee Barber Wheeler (born 1816)Rebecca Ann Wedding Wheeler (born 1816) (wife)
John W. Wheeler (born 1837)
Silas Jason Wheeler (born 1841)
Philander Savage “Dutch” Wheeler (born 1845)
Solomon Foster Wheeler (born 1846)
Lafayette Washington Wheeler (born 1849)
Mary Ellen Wheeler (born 1851)
James William Wheeler (born 1854)
George Riley Wheeler (born 1857)
The family was listed in the U. S. 1850 Census in Monroe County. By 1851, their daughter was born in Wheelers Grove. The family was still listed there on the 1860 U. S. Census.
Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
A Branch of the Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints was established at Wheeler’s Grove, Pottawattamie County, Iowa on April 29, 1862. The Branch was organized and named by Charles Derry. Upon organization, 10 members were present. John Smith served as President with Levi Graybill, Assistant and E. W. Knapp, Clerk. By 1863, there were 24 members. A. J. Field was appointed President from 1869-1870 and then James Newberry served as President from 1870-1872. The Branch was disorganized in 1894 when the Carson Branch was founded. The following were members of the Branch and known to have resided in Wheelers Grove (1).
Andrew Jackson AndersonMelissa Broadhurst Anderson (wife)
Julia S. Anderson (sister of Andrew Jackson Anderson)
John Thomas PritchettSusan H. Winegar Pritchett (wife)
John Winegar
Elizabeth Smith Winegar (wife)
Massie Elmira Winegar
Nancy Jane Winegar
Henry E. Winegar
Jolana E. Newberry Winegar (wife)
Possible Births
| Name | Father | Mother | Birth Date |
| Alma J. Lathrop | Julius Lathrop | Ruth Ann Eliza Pickard | 1846 |
| Hiram Hoagland | Henry Hoagland | Emily Sophia Lathrop | 1846 |
| Harriet Amelia Helser | Joshua Helser | Martha Matilda Clinger | 4 Apr 1847 |
| James Sullivan Ballard | Phillip Larkin Ballard | Elizabeth Shumate | 7 May 1847 |
| Mary Margaret Jane Watson | James Smith Watson | Jane Elizabeth McGee | 16 Mar 1848 |
| Henry E. Winegar | John J. Winegar | Elizabeth Martha Smith | 27 May 1848 |
| Permelia Victoria Dickey | Sebastian Raymond Dickey | Elizabeth Hubbard | 30 Aug 1847 |
| Emily Jacobs | Michael Jacobs | Emily Sophia Lathrop | 1848 |
| Joseph Parker Hartwell | Reuben Parker Hartwell | Lucinda Almeda Merritt | 21 Feb 1848 |
| Alexander Hendrickson | Jordan Paddock Hendrickson | Frances Kelly Humphrys | 1849 |
| Mary Losee | Isaac Huff Losee | Sarah Gilbert | 30 Aug 1849 |
| Susan Ann Winegar | John J. Winegar | Elizabeth Martha Smith | 28 Oct 1849 |
| Ammon Lathrop | Julius Lathrop | Ruth Ann Eliza Pickard | 1850 |
| Sarah Ann Watson | James Smith Watson | Jane Elizabeth McGee | 4 Mar 1850 |
| John Newton Boyd | William Alfred Cornelius Boyd | Barbara Eleanor Ballard | 5 Sep 1850 |
| Marion B. Hendrickson | Jordan Paddock Hendrickson | Frances Kelly Humphrys | Oct 1850 |
| William Charles Helser | Joshua Helser | Martha Matilda Clinger | 20 Jan 1851 |
| Samuel Thomas Winegar | John J. Winegar | Elizabeth Martha Smith | 22 Jan 1851 |
| John Graybill | George Washington Graybill | Mary Smith | 12 May 1851 |
| Isaac Huff Losee, Jr. | Isaac Huff Losee | Sarah Gilbert | 28 Jun 1851 |
| Mary Ellen Wheeler | Solomon M. B. Wheeler | Rebecca Ann Wedding | 3 Oct 1851 |
| Nesbit Allen Boyd | William Alfred Cornelius Boyd | Barbara Eleanor Ballard | 7 Jan 1852 |
| Catherine L. Watson | James Smith Watson | Jane Elizabeth McGee | 1 Apr 1852 |
| Massie Almira Winegar | John J. Winegar | Elizabeth Martha Smith | 22 Jan 1853 |
| John Jackson Winegar | John J. Winegar | Elizabeth Martha Smith | 6 Oct 1853 |
| James William Wheeler | Solomon M. B. Wheeler | Rebecca Ann Wedding | 26 Nov 1853 |
| Nancy Jane Winegar | John J. Winegar | Elizabeth Martha Smith | 3 Oct 1855 |
| Alfred Marshall Winegar | John J. Winegar | Elizabeth Martha Smith | 15 Jan 1857 |
| George Riley Wheeler | Solomon M. B. Wheeler | Rebecca Ann Wedding | 8 Feb 1857 |
| George Washington Winegar | John J. Winegar | Elizabeth Martha Smith | 11 Mar 1859 |
| Emma Elizabeth Winegar | John J. Winegar | Elizabeth Martha Smith | 1 Nov 1860 |
| Joseph Hyrum Winegar | John J. Winegar | Elizabeth Martha Smith | 27 Jun 1864 |
| William Andrew Winegar | John J. Winegar | Elizabeth Martha Smith | 1 Apr 1867 |
Possible Marriages
Pottawattamie County Marriages (2)| Groom’s Name | Bride’s Name | Date |
| John J. Winegar | Elizabeth Martha Smith | 16 May 1847 |
John J. Winegar was the son of Samuel Thomas and Rhoda Elizabeth Cummings Winegar. Elizabeth Martha Smith was the daughter of John and Elizabeth Martha Koons Smith. They lived at Wheelers Grove where they raised eleven children. They are both buried in the Mormon Cemetery, Macedonia, Pottawattamie County, Iowa.
Bibliography
- Bernauer, Barbara. “Wheelers Grove” Branch, RLDS, Mill Co. IA”
- “Pottawattamie County Marriage Records,” Pottawattamie County Genealogical Society, 2000.