Elvira "Ella" Holman

Notes:

After John Cartwright's death, Elvira married Otis M. WHEELER, and can be found as "wife" in his household, along with a namesake newborn son, and her first-born, four year old William Cartwright. They later moved to Polk County. Matthew Cartwright wrote in his daybook "Mrs. John Clinton Cartwright married O. M. Wheeler in 8 mos and 8 days from Death of her Husband. Myself & wife rec'd invitation from the Madam late in the evening to take supper at candle lighting. She intended to moving to the country and making her home at Col. Wheeler. We went in the dark and Rain through the mud and saw the last of John C. Cartwright's fond and ever adoring wife." (Henson and Parmelee, p. 153).

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Census Listings:

1850 Census
Texas, San Augustine County, San Augustine District
Enumerated 10 OCt 1850
Stamped 353
311-311
W. W. Holman 39 M Farmer 30,000 KY
Eliza Holman 26 F Mi
Wm. Holman 1 M Tx
312-312
Otis M . Wheeler 37 M Farmer 50000 Mass
Elvira Wheeler 25 F Tenn
Otis Wheeler 5/12 Texas
John Polley 27 M Overseer Tx
John Kelly 26 M Laborer Ohio
Wm. Cartwright 4 M Tx

Elvira married John Clinton Cartwright on 19 Mar 1844 in San Augustine County, Texas. John (son of John Cartwright and Mary E. "Polly" Crutchfield) was born on 10 Sep 1823 in Pike County, Mississippi; died on 10 May 1848 in San Augustine County, Texas; was buried in Cartwright Cemetery, San Augustine County, Texas. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Elvira married Otis Marshall Wheeler on 18 Jan 1849 in Texas. Otis was born about 1813 in Massachusetts; and died. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

His cousins, Lon and Matthew Cartwright, hired him to manage ranches that they managed in Cooke County, north of Denton, and Stephens County, west of Forth Worth. (Henson and Parmelee, THE CARTWRIGHTS OF SAN AUGUSTINE, p. 295).