Harriet E. Wheadon (maiden name: Gage) was born around 1838 in New Hampshire. She married Samuel C. Wheadon on November 6, 1858, and they had at least three children: Hattie, born around 1867; Mabel, born around 1876; and Maud, born around 1876. They lived in Maine, Illinois, and her husband worked as a farmer. By 1860, they owned $100 of personal property. They moved to Chicago, Illinois, after the Civil War, and her husband worked as a baker there. She probably died in the early 1880s.