| Home Surname List Name Index Sources | Seventh Generation567. Minnie Mae Newman216. Birth: 14 April 1881, Wetmore, Polk County, Tennessee. Death: 18 May 1941, age 60, Chattanooga, Hamilton County, Tennessee. Minnie Mae Newman and Edward Franklin Wheland Marriage: 17 May 1904,. Edward Franklin Wheland216. Birth: 10 January 1878, Chattanooga, Hamilton County, Tennessee. Death: 16 February 1959, age 81, Hamilton County, Tennessee. The Wheland Company, one of Chattanooga's outstanding businesses, was started in 1866 in Athens, Tennessee; was moved to Chattanooga in 1873. There have been four presidents: George Wheland, E.F. Wheland, Gordon P. Street, and Gordon P. Street, Jr., since 1973. The plant now employs 1300. Minnie Newman Wheland was very interested in serious researching of the Bryan family tree. The Whelands, Cummings, and Cunninghams have been active in the civic, cultural, and social life of Chattanooga. Minnie Mae Newman-1147 and Edward Franklin Wheland-1148 had the following children:
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