Wheat, Tennessee

Levi served in the War of 1812 as a Private under Captain John McKamy’s Company of East Tennessee Militia, Colonel E Booth’s Regiment.

Levi Henderson Wheat died prior to April 20, 1849, the date of his estate probate, in Roane County, Tennessee[4].

The African Burial Ground was long forgotten, but the site was found in 2000 by Will Minter and was cleaned up and marked by U.S. Department of Energy personnel and volunteers.

The community of Wheat was dissolved, and residents displaced, in 1942 when the United States government purchased the land as part of the Manhattan Project.

The Wheat community, including former residents and their families, holds a "homecoming" reunion at the George Jones Church every year on the first Sunday in October.