A Family Genealogy of
the Gentle House of Stapleton
 

Adam Brevard WILEY

[N37]

1795 - ABT 1885

  • BIRTH: Walker's Gap
    1795, Bland, Virginia, USA
  • DEATH: ABT 1885, Johnson, Kentucky, USA
  • REFERENCE: 704
Father: Thomas WILEY
Mother: Jean C. SELLARDS

Family 1 : Sarah A. STAPLETON
  • MARRIAGE: 26 JUL 1821, Floyd, Kentucky, USA
  1. +Mary Elizabeth WILEY
  2. +John WILEY
  3. +Margaret WILEY
  4. +Andrew J. WILEY 
                                             _________________________
                                            |                         
                       _Thomas WILEY _______|
                      | (1712 - 1780)       |
                      |                     |_________________________
                      |                                               
 _Thomas WILEY _______|
| (1741 - 1810) m 1779|
|                     |                      _________________________
|                     |                     |                         
|                     |_Jane LNU ___________|
|                       (1720 - ....)       |
|                                           |_________________________
|                                                                     
|
|--Adam Brevard WILEY 
|  (1795 - 1885)
|                                            _Peter John SELLARDS Jr._+
|                                           | (1706 - ....)           
|                      _Hezekiah SELLARDS __|
|                     | (1732 - 1760)       |
|                     |                     |_________________________
|                     |                                               
|_Jean C. SELLARDS ___|
  (1760 - 1831) m 1779|
                      |                      _John BREVARD ___________
                      |                     |                         
                      |_Jean BREVARD _______|
                        (1734 - 1770)       |
                                            |_________________________

[N37] Adam Brevard Wiley, son of Thomas and Jean (Sellards) Wiley and grandson of Hezekiah Sellards, was born ca 1795 near Walkers Station in the present Bland County, Virginia. He came to Kentucky with his parents about 1800 when they settled on Tom's Creek in the present Johnson County, Kentucky.

Adam married in Floyd County, Kentucky on July 26, 1821 Sarah "Sallie" Stapleton. Adam is probably known best as a preacher and the child who told the story of his mother's captivity. He tried to get several individuals to write and publish the story of the captivity, including William Ely, before he got William E. Connelley to take sufficient interest.

Adam is also known as Adam Prevard and Adam P. However he used the initial B in the marriage record. Brevard, rather than Prevard is considered to be correct and supposedly it is an ancestral surname of his grandmother Sellards.