Soldiers name: Luther G. Wheat
Birthdate: June 30, 1840 on military papers
but 1842 on headstone.
Parents name: Edrick H. and Hannah
Wheat
Location: Born Colchester, Delaware County,
New York
Location of Enlistment: Callicoon Depot,
Sullivan County, New York
What Company: Co. I, Regiment
71st.
Start and end of enlistment: May 02, 1861 to
Jan. 15, 1863
Activity after War: Farmer
Marriage: March 01, 1877; wife: Alice Mary
Holbert
Children: George Holbert Wheat, 09-21-1878,
02-17-1920
Naomi Aletha Wheat, 05-30-1881, 06-06-1943
Kenneth Malcolm Wheat, 06-12-1883, 04-1948
Leslie Edrick Wheat, 05-29-1885, 10-15-1918
Tina Evelyn Wheat, 03-11-1890, 10-18-1918
Luther's date of death: Feb. 11, 1923, buried
in Deposit, New York in Laurel Bank
