James Bivence Wheeler was born 22 Oct 1863 and died 3 Apr 1940. He was president and director of Black Prince Mine.

Rachel Talmage Wheeler was born 6 Nov 1860 and died 21 Mar 1951.

William Dean Whitaker was born in 1925 and raised in a suburb of Los Angeles,
California. Dean, as he is known, talks briefly about his parents and his brothers, for his youth quickly ended when he joined the Air Force and became an aviation cadet once he had turned 18 years old. The year was 1943 and World War II was raging. He became a member of the 398 th Bomb Group and flew twenty missions before being captured by the Germans.