Adam Brevard WILEY #704

1795 - ABT 1885
BIRTH Walker's Gap 1795, Bland, Virginia, USA
DEATH ABT 1885, Johnson, Kentucky, USA

Historical Notes

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.

Parents

Father : Thomas WILEY #7

Mother : Jean C. SELLARDS #2

Family 1

Sarah A. STAPLETON
    MARRIAGE 26 JUL 1821, Floyd, Kentucky, USA

Children

  1. +John WILEY
  2. +Margaret WILEY
  3. +Mary Elizabeth WILEY
  4. +Andrew J. WILEY

Lineage 

                                             _________________________
                                            |                         
                       _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)       |
                                            |_________________________

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