Colonel Eleazar Louis Ripley Wheelock
Posted by: txoilgas
N 30° 15.908 W 097° 43.633
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He entered the United States army and served first in the Ohio Militia and later as an ensign in the New York Twenty-first Infantry Regiment, seeing active duty during the War of 1812.
Waymark Code: WM7NQ6
Location: Texas, United States
Date Posted: 11/14/2009
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More information about him is located at the Texas State Cemetery website. (
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The headstone states
Colonel Eleazor Louis
Ripley Wheelock
Born 1793, in Hanover, New Hampshire
Grandson of the Founder of Dartmouth College
Served as an officer in
The War of 1812
The Black Hawk War
The War for Texas Independence
Married 1818 Mary P. Prichett in Illinois
Immigrated to Texas in 1833
Founder of the town of Wheelock
in Robertson's Colony
Captain of the Texas Rangers
Founder of the Texas University Company
Republic of Texas Indian Commissioner
Under President Anson Jones
Surveyor - Lawyer - Soldier - Patriot
Died 1847
Presented to the People of Texas
By his descendents in 1993
The Bicentennial
of his Birth.