Elmira Francine Stiggins "Ellie" (Mrs. Alonzo Carroll Wheeler). (1883-1959). B: Boston, Massachusetts. D: Houston. Wheeler's family moved to Anchorage when she was twelve. She picked cotton to earn money for paint. Wheeler was taught and encouraged by a Confederate veteran and Indian scout Ed Meyers. She raised her family before beginning an active art career. She lived in Poteet before she moved to Beeville.She taught art privately. Painter, printmaker, watercolorist, sculptor, craftsperson, pastelist, graphic artist, teacher. Studied: Xavier Gonzalez; José Arpa; Dawson Dawson-Watson; Charles Rosen; Margaret Glasscock; Frederic Taubes; Jacob Rockport School of Art with Simon Michael. Getlar Smith; Eliot O'Hara; Harry Anthony De Young; Member: Texas Fine Arts Association; San Antonio Artists Guild. Exhibitions:San Antonio Art League, 1926 Spring in Atascosa; San Antonio Artists Guild, 1927Edgar B. Edgar B. Davis Competition, San Antonio, 1927Texas Wildflowers; José Arpa Student Exhibition, San Antonio, 1928Mountain Ranch; Mountain Flowers; Texas Federation of Women's Clubs, Lubbock, 1931San Pedro Playhouse Gallery, San Antonio, 1932Arts and Crafts Exhibition, San Pedro Playhouse, San Antonio, 1932Busts; Texas Fine Arts Association, 1932El Nopal, 1933, 1947Portrait of a Tree (drawing), 1950, (print), 1951, 1952Negro Quarters (print); San Antonio Local Exhibition, 1930Prickly Pear Cactus, Zinnias, 1931Cactus Decoration, Portrait of my Son, 1932, (pastel), 1933Petunias, 1936Zinnias, 1938Night Blooming Cereus (watercolor), 1943Trees (watercolor), 1944Live Oaks, Ranch Logs (watercolors), The Oaks (lithograph); Elks Club, Laredo, 1932Reese-Wil-Mond Hotel, Harlingen, 1938Rio Grande Valley Art League, 1938River Art Show, San Antonio, 1948, 1949, 1950Corpus Christi Caller-Times 1947Old Tree (drawing) (prize), 1950Pink Granite (honorable mention); Southwestern Prints and Drawings Exhibition, Dallas, 1950Nueces River (lithograph); Corpus Christi Centennial Museum, 1947, (solo)South Texas Art League, 1947, 1953, (solo), including Shrimp Boats, Wind in the Trees, Enchanted Rock, Study of Glass, Figurine and Violin, On the Ways, Nueces River (lithograph), Goats and Stormy Weather. Collections: South Texas Institute for the Arts, Corpus Christi.