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Date: February 6, 2010 3:13:13 AM EST

Hey.....I was just fooling around and decided to check out the internet for Alexander Wheatley Revolutionary Soldier. I turned up two pretty interesting sites on the first two pages of the search results that you might want to check out for yourself. Just click on the following web sites:
http://southerncampaign.org/pen/w102.pdf

This site shows the application for a pension for military service and is very detailed as to his military service during the Revoluionary War: http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~tnweakle/RevolutionaryWar.htm

This site shows the list of Revolutionary War veterans from Weakley County, as stated on the plaque in the courthouse. While looking at the list, you can click on the name Wheatley on the list and it will take you to the following site, which is an interesting account of a pension application by Peggy Wheatley with great amounts of detail, all of which is found at the site:
http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~tnweakle/WHEATLEY_Alexander.htm

More on Alexander Wheatley is found through a similar Google search at http://southerncampaign.org/pen/w102.pdf

When I did a search for John Fox Wheatley, it turned up the following site, which shows the letter of tribute I wrote a while back in the forum section of the Sixth Marine Division's official website honoring my father, John Fox Wheatley, Jr., who was a machine gunner serving in the U.S. Marines and saw lots of brutal front line action in the bloodiest battles of World War II in Okinawa, where the Japanese military made their "last stand." Read it and you'll be proud... go to:

http://pub28.bravenet.com/forum/static/show.php?usernum=2367314316&frmid=98&msgid=903732&cmd=show

Please share this information with other family members so that they can also learn more about out family.

Thanks...
John Wheatley in Montgomery