ALLYN WHEELER Harry Wheeler took a California girl named Mamie Olivia Stafford as his bride on Valentine’s Day, 1898 at Fort Sill, OK. They were married the same day that the USS Maine blew up in Havana Harbor. Harry was private in Company H of the First U S Cavalry. It was the war hysteria, no doubt, that caused the happy couple to work quickly at starting a family. Their first child arrived only 7 months later on August 11, 1898. He has strapping lad that they named William Allyn Wheeler, but they always called him Allyn to avoid confusion with a grandpa and uncle also named William Wheeler. Harry was discharged from the army for medical reasons and became a private in the Arizona Rangers. He quickly rose to sergeant, then lieutenant and
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