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14.	Pat Harrison Miller - bom in 1911, married Annie Mae Hinkz, and resided in Mandeville, LA.
C.	Mary “Jane” Miller - bom on August 22, 1862 and died on October 27, 1912.
She married Hezekiah K. “Heze” Wheat on September 9, 1878 in Hancock County and lived near Picayune. They had:
1.	Mary Louise Wheat - bom on April 17, 1880, married Lott McArthur, and resided in Picayune. They were cousins. He was a son of Thomas J.
McArthur and Matilda Brown.
2.	John Berry Wheat - bom on June 25, 1883, married first to Clyde Fomea, second to Thelma Sylvest, third to Caroline Shaw, and resided in Picayune,
MS.
3.	Thomas C. Wheat - bom on January 9, 1884, married Mary Smith and resided in Gulfport, MS.
4.	Sarah Theodosia “Josephine” Wheat - bom on August 8, 1886, married Murry “Mason” Smith, and resided in Picayune.
5.	Hester C. Wheat - bom on February 9, 1888, married Maek Gipson, and resided in Picayune.
6.	Ada C. Wheat - bom on October 18, 1890, married Tiliie Daniel “T.D.”
Davis, and resided in Picayune.
7.	Ida I. Wheat - bom on December 9, 1893, married John E. Gipson, and resided in Picayune, MS.
8.	William “Albert” Wheat - bom on December 9, 1895 and died on September 21, 1943. His headstone in Flat Top cemetery lists these dates. Family says he legally changed his name to “Andy Gump.” He lived last in Hollywood, California and was married three or four times. One wife was Florence (last name unknown), but his first wife was Ether Mitchell.
9.	Arle C. Wheat - bom on May 3, 1898, married Artemisia S. A. Charlotte “Lotie” Fomea, and resided in Tucson, Arizona.
10.	Morris C. Wheat - bom on May 8, 1900, married first to Stella O. Smith, second to Leona Ladner Peters, and resided in Nicholson, MS.
11.	Emest Wheat - bom on March 27, 1902, married first to Olean Bond, second to Eunice P. Wallace, and resided in Picayune, MS.
12.	Mattie E. Wheat - bom on July 29, 1905, married Rollie H. Frierson, and resided in Picayune. She helped with this family on November 22, 1976.
Hezekiah Wheat remarried after Mary Jane died, to Mary Patch and had three more children: Elmo, Edmond, and Hezzle. Hezekiah remarried a third time to Elizabeth Fomea but had no children by her. Some family members say that Mary “Jane” Miller also married Joe Smith, and (first name unknown) Spiers, and had children by both. They are covered in the research by Mrs. Betty (Wayne)
Davis of Huston, TX. This information is confusing and Mrs. Davis did not give a source.
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