Jane Rebecca Parsons, first daughter of James W. and Catherine Neville Parsons, was born in the Horse Shoe, Virginia; the house stood on a bluff overlookng the Cheat river flowing serenely through the green fields, under perfect cultivation and like most Virginia homes it was celebrated from its earliest days for the most graceful and openhanded hospitality, it was the land of plain living, high thinking, the abode of simplicity and democracy. ,

Every one lived in a modest home and the measure of a man's success was not in his equipages or his dwelling, but in his manhood and decency of his soul.

In this Christian home surrounded by good influence, she grew to womanhood, her agreeable social qualities were very engaging, to her many friends, for she was one of the most attractive girls of that period. After her marriage — and children came to bless the home, she never failed to accompany them to church and Sunday school.

She passed away very suddenly after the birth of the eighth child, leaving the heart-broken husband in dispair, 'tlie grandfather raised the little girl and she is now the wife of Dr. S. A. Pratt, of Kingwood, West Virginia. The other children are in different parts of West Virginia.


Family Record of Jane Rebecca Parsons Wheeeler




Born.


Married. Died.


David Wheeler


Jane Rebecca Wheeler


1833


David Wheeler — . 1864

Mar. 6, 1851


Children.


Alice Wheeler




W. F. Fortney


Claude Wheeler




Almira Watson


Clarissa Wheeler




John D. Watson



James William Wheeler

Eugene Wheeler

Lafayette Wheeler

Willey Wheeler Cornelia Smally

Jane Rebecca Wheeler Samuel A, Pratt, M. D.

Samuel A. Pratt, M. D. Samuel Pratt, M. D.



Jone Rebecco Pratt

Children.
Martha E^iza Pratt Oct. 16, 1889



Aug. 13, 1884

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