Winn And Lyn

I am going to continue with Cousin Winnie's Wheeler genealogy here. Joseph Wheeler who married Mary Holmes had several children. Two were Eleanor Wheeler who married Robert Desha and John B. Wheeler who married Mary Revel. Eleanor was the grandmother of President Lyndon Johnson and John B. was the grandfather of Winnie Merk. Maybe Winnie's political interest is an inherited trait. One of Eleanor Wheeler Desha's sons was the Governor of Kentucky and another was a State Senator or Representative....I forgot which and don't think I will look. President Johnson was so proud of his Desha kin that he named one of his daughter's Lucy Desha!

You can see Phoebe Ann Desha in President Johnson's tree. Her mother was Eleanor Wheeler. Winnie's descent to the Wheeler family comes through Eleanor's brother John B. Wheeler who married Mary Revel. They were parents of John Wheeler who married married Mary Cracraft and their son Levi Benjamin Wheeler married Sytha Jane King. Levi and Sythia are the parents of Mary Ann Wheeler--Winnie's Grandmother.  

John and Mary Polly Cracraft Wheeler lie in the cemetery below.  Many of this family are members of Daughters of the American Revolution.  

So Winnie and Lyndon match  like this---

Winn                            Lyn

Uncle Harold                Samuel Early Johnson

Mary Wheeler               Eliza Jane Bunton

Levi B. Wheeler            Robert Holmes Bunton

John Wheeler                Phoebe Desha

John B. Wheeler            Eleanor Wheeler

Joseph Wheeler              Joseph Wheeler