This article on Miss Annie Wheeler was written by Edith Sessions Tupper and was originally published in the New York World. It was reprinted in The Florence Times on Friday, September 30, 1898. Edith Sessions Tupper was a published novelist and Broadway playwright born in 1855. From 1888 to 1926 she penned over 40 novels, short stories and plays (some of which later became silent movies).

Miss Annie Wheeler, 86, one of the most famed women in Alabama died Sunday at a hospital in Richmond, VA.