Caroline "Carrie" V. Wheat (b. Valleau) (1843-1918) was born in New York,
New York, and died in Oakland, California. By 1850 she had moved with her family to
Berrien, Michigan. In 1865 she married James R. Wheat in Sacramento, California, where
they subsequently lived. He was an upholsterer and a cabinetmaker for the Pullman
Company and the Southern Pacific Railroad. They moved to Oakland around 1904. In 1886
and 1887 Wheat wrote to Mary Baker Eddy to order
Science and Health
with Key to the Scriptures and other Christian Science literature. She studied
Christian Science with John P. Filbert, student of Eddy, and joined The First Church of
Christ, Scientist, in Boston, Massachusetts, on June 30, 1894.
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