Person talk:George Wheeler (18)

Death date, etc. [18 January 2015]

I removed the death date of 25 Jan 1862. It appears to give a source of Wheeler/OneWorldTree which is not credible, and Wheeler/The History of the Wheeler Family in America which does NOT say that. No source for this information could be found and the records in Massachusetts for this time frame are pretty good. Further, George definitely married Nov 1861 so it seems unusual. Pretty this is a Civil War related incident, etc., but it needs documentation. Based on the shoddiness of similarly documented death dates, the high probability that confusion was driving it (no marriage documented and see further comments on middle name), it seemed the better course was simply to remove it, and when a researcher actually finds a reason for thinking some date was his death, it could be properly documented at that time, be it the same or different.

I also changed the middle name from William to W. Wheeler calls it Washington, which of course is what most George W.'s would be in this time period would be, but no record has been found giving it explicitly, and the basis for William is unknown and unlikely, so I compromised on W. --Jrich 16:14, 18 January 2015 (UTC)