Mary Wheeler
was born in Manor. She was the daughter of San
Antonio artist Maggie Brown. Her father was a veteran of the famous
Terry’s Rangers and Hood’s Texas Brigade and the County Clerk for
Travis County until the carpetbag government forced ex-confederates
out of state government. Her father was credited as the first man to
call for, "Lee to the Rear" in the battle of the Wilderness, one of
the most famous events in Confederate battle history. She attended the Columbia Female Institute
in Columbia Tennessee and at Ward Seminary in Nashville. She married
and lived in Tennessee until her husband’s death. She returned to
Texas and lived for times in Austin, Houston and finally San
Antonio. She studied art with Sarah Ward Connelly, Pearl Saunders,
Raymond Everett and Jose’ Arpa. She was an active participant in the
San Antonio art community and the Southern States Art League.
She exhibited in the 1920’s thru the 1940’s
