Pleasant Grove Review | 1940-01-12 | Page 7 | Son's of Revolution Observes 92nd Birthday

)! '.;tal Son' of Revolution Observes 92nd Birthday jLJ&UTH WOODBURY, VT. Still ,';,. and keenly interested in the 1 "tent European war, the only liv-A';; liv-A';; "real son" of the American Rev-jon Rev-jon celebrated his ninety-second May recently. He is William r ttant Wheeler, whose father 3!L.flit under Gen. George Washing-' Washing-' p the war of independence more .'ail a century and a half ago. f father, Comfort Wheeler, was 'iSs'at Rehoboth, Mass., March 13, j He enlisted in April, 1780, at llfcfce of 14, and served as orderly jn. Nathanael Greene. The son, im, was born to Comfort's third age, which took place when I j,brt was nearly 80 years old. 'ijiiam, a veteran in his own right Vjtue of his Civil war service, with his 79-year-old wife, Eve- (ind their two sons on a 20-acre on the outskirts of this village.