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Wiley William SELLARDS

[N341]

1834 - 1888

  • BIRTH: 1834, Greenup, Greenup, Kentucky, USA
  • DEATH: 1888, Scranton, Osage, Kansas, USA
  • REFERENCE: 9554
Father: Andrew Jackson SELLARDS
Mother: Mary Elizabeth HARTLEY

Family 1 : Sarah MINIX
  • MARRIAGE: 27 MAY 1863
  1. +Mary Virginia SELLARDS
  2. +Eugene Watson SELLARDS
  3. +James Thomas SELLARDS
  4. +William Jackson SELLARDS
  5. +Elias Howard SELLARDS
  6. +Clara Belle SELLARDS
  7. +Laura Lillie SELLARDS
                                                  _Hezekiah SELLARDS __+
                                                 | (1732 - 1760)       
                            _John SELLARDS ______|
                           | (1765 - 1838)       |
                           |                     |_Jean BREVARD _______+
                           |                       (1734 - 1770)       
 _Andrew Jackson SELLARDS _|
| (1806 - 1859)            |
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|                          |_Annie ALFORD _______|
|                            (1770 - 1820)       |
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|--Wiley William SELLARDS 
|  (1834 - 1888)
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|_Mary Elizabeth HARTLEY __|
  (1812 - 1891)            |
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[N341] Wiley entered the Civil War January 10, 1862 serving in several battles including Middle Creek, Cumberland Gap, Tazewell, Haynes Bluff, Vicksburg, Jackson, Mississippi, Red River, Louisiana and in Arkansas being discharged January 20, 1865. He was taken prisoner on two occasions and experienced the prison stockades in Mississippi and Louisiana. Wiley returned to farming after the war. In 1884, two years after his brothers Archibald and Watson had moved to Kansas, he followed by covered wagon, locating near Scranton, Kansas.