COLONEL ELEAZOR LOUIS RIPLEY WHEELOCK (March 31, 1793 to April 20, 1847)
Buried at the Texas State Cemetery.
Born in New Hampshire, the grandson of the founder of Dartmouth College. Officer in the War of 1812, the Black Hawk War and the War for Texas Independence.
Founder of the town of Wheelock in Robertson's Colony.
Captain in the Texas Rangers.
Quite a list of accomplishments for this man.
I have also already written about a General Eleazor Wheelock Ripley in this blog and I imagine these two men have to have had some relationship.
--Brock-Perry
2012 marks the 200th anniversary of America's "Forgotten War," the War of 1812 that took place over three years, 1812 to 1815.
Battle of New Orleans.
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