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EARLY SETTLERS OF SANGAMON COUNTY - 1876
By John Carroll Power

These biographies were submitted by a researcher and evidently abstracted from the 1876 History of Sangamon County, IL. Errors could occur, so one should always verify the correctness by obtaining copies of vitals and performing all necessary research to document what is contained herein.




WILEY. The origin of the family in America was through a man of that name who lived and died in the county of Armagh, Ireland. His first name is not preserved. It is not certainly known, but believed by his descendants, that he was a native of Scotland. He possessed considerable property, and died early in life, leaving as the executor of his will a brother, who defrauded the children of their property. Five of the children--probably all there were--emigrated to New York city in 1734 or '35. One of his sons, who, it is thought, bore the name of Alexander, was born in 1711 in county Armagh, freland, married in New York city to Jane Bell. They had ten children, five of whom, two sons and three daughters, grew to be men and women. Their eldest son, Alexander, born Feb. 6, 1745, in New York, was eleven years old when his father died, about 1756, one year after Braddock's defeat. He was apprenticed by his sister Elizabeth--older than himself--to a tailor, and continued in that business thirty years. He married Elizabeth Carr, who was born May 19, 1752. They had ten children. He died Feb. 29, 1824, and she died Dec. 23, 1834. The eldest child, Alexander C., born June 22, 1770, in New York city, married August 27, 1795, to Sarah Coe, who was born Dec. 9, 1774. They had ten children, six sons and four daughters. Their daughter Sarah, born Nov. 24, 1802, married July 4, 1824, to Jonathan Mottashed, in New York city. He died there April 1, 1832, and she married William W. Watson. See his name. They had a son, Alexander Wiley, also, but he never came west. Their son--

WILEY, EDMUND. R.




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