Person talk:Dolly Wheeler (2)

death date [9 November 2014]

I removed the death date of "1885".

First it appears to be an error copying from Wheeler who says 1855. 1885 would make Dolly 106 which would be unusually old and therefore is unlikely.

Second, Wheeler's grammar is very ambiguous, and the death date is given in the sentence mostly describing her husband, though the punctuation does make it unclear exactly who he is referring to, and from other sources, notably death records in Newton, Mass., it turns out it was John Cheever who d. 1855. As he is labelled a widower, Dolly must have died before 1855. --Jrich 19:17, 9 November 2014 (UTC)