Brooke County, WV
Obituaries
General John Connell
Connell Gen. John, died March 28 in the 71st year of his age. He was a native of Ireland, and came to this country when about 17 years of age. During the Revolution he served as a common soldier; also served 2 years in VA Legislature and was clerk of Brooke Co. In the last war, he commanded a Regiment of VA Militia under Gen. Harrison in the Northwestern Army. Shortly afterwards, he received the appointment of Brigadier General. (Pub April 15).
[SOURCE: National Intelligencer, as pub. in the NGSQ, vol 55, No 1, March 1967, submitted by K. Torp]Maj. James Miller
Obit: Died. --On Saturday the 12th of February, at his residence in Wellsburg, Va., Maj. James Miller, of dropsy of the chest, aged nearly 69 years.
Mr. Miller was born in Berkely county, Va., on the 3d of April 1781; moved to Jefferson co., Ohio in 1817, and finally in the Fall of 1844 changed his residence to Wellsburg, where he closed up the scenes of his earthly life.
He was brother of the late Governor John Miller of this State, and father of Mr. John Miller of this vicinity. The Wellsburg Herald says: The closing scences of his earthly career were such as the evenly and gentle course of his life would have indicated. He was free from gloomy forebodings; and his mind was filled with heavenly hopes. --Fears of death found no harbor in the soul, which grace had occupied for years; but blissful prospects spread out along the great future --and when the hour of his departure came he sank gently, and with scarcely a pang, into the unbroken slumbers of the grave.
[The Glasgow Weekly Times, Thursday, March 17, 1853 - Submitted by Kathy McDaniel]
Thomas C. Wheeler
Wheeler - On Monday, Feb 27, 1922, a t 5 a. m., Thomas C. Wheeler, aged 69 years.
Funeral services will be held at his late home in Brook county,West Virginia, on Wednesday, at 2 p.m. Friends invited. Internment St. John;s Cemetery, in Brroke county.
[Steubenville Herald Star, Feb. 27, 1922 - Transcribed by Therman Kellar]
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