Comments on: Wedding Wednesday: William Wheeler and Nellie Call

By: pmm

pmm — Tue, 20 Jun 2017 14:24:30 +0000

So happy that my stories are helping to get the family history discussion going before it is too late! I will contact you privately so we can arrange for me to send you the certificate.I appreciate your offer of payment, but we have had others contact us with family treasures, so this is genealogical karma to just pass it on. ;D

By: Meredith Stuart

Meredith Stuart — Sun, 18 Jun 2017 13:50:45 +0000

In reply to pmm. You're so kind! And yes! We would LOVE to be able to preserve it and would like to purchase it from you and pay for the shipping. Would you be able to email me at [ ] and we could discuss the details? Thank you for your commitment to heritage and history. Your find has caused a lot of excitement in our family and has started some more great discussions with our grandparents about their families. :)

By: pmm

pmm — Sun, 18 Jun 2017 05:15:02 +0000

In reply to Meredith Stuart. Hi Meredith! So glad you found the blog and post about your family, and thank you for the kind comments. William Wheeler was quite a brave man, and a hero for sure. I am so glad that I could help the family learn more about him and Nellie. It is interesting that in so many families, a small story often morphs into a much bigger story over the years. But in your family, it was the opposite: a big, heroic action by William did result in electrocution, sadly, but the story has a much bigger impact than just the family. The family did suffer though, and maybe that was why the whole story was not told- it may have been too painful to remember. I love this wedding certificate, but it really belongs in your family. Is there someone who would be interested in preserving it? Please let me know.

By: Meredith Stuart

Meredith Stuart — Tue, 06 Jun 2017 01:38:32 +0000

This is our family!! My Aunt Sylvia found this and shared it with all of us. William and Nellie are my great-great grandfather and grandmother. My great grandmother is Willie Nell Wheeler and Nellie moved in with them after the accident. My grandmother, Chrystal Neil Morris, has always shared such fond memories of growing up with her grandmother living with them. Nellie loved playing cards and board games with her granddaughters and it’s something that my grandmother now does with all of us. My grandmother grew up being told that her grandfather had been electrocuted, so the fire was new information for all of us. Thank you for looking into this and finding out these things about our family! We are so grateful!