A Wheeler Family in the Dutch Fork
Thompson Luther “Dick” Wheeler (1855-1920), Ida Rebecca Rikard Wheeler (1859-1936), and Ellis Levi Wheeler (1896-1944)
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Colonial Ancestors and Their Descendants in South Carolina's Dutch Fork
Thompson and Ida Rikard Wheeler’s German-speaking ancestors were granted land bounties in the fork between the Broad and Saluda Rivers before the American Revolution.
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Georgia Salzburgers
My 6x great-grandparents, Solomon and Margaretha Ade and their young son, Johann Heinrich, arrived in Savannah, Georgia in 1738. To pay for their passage, they were sent to work at the Salzburger community at Ebenezer. Within months, it was requested that Solomon, “a most offensive man”, be sent back to Savannah.