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State of Service: PA
Qualifying Service: Private / Patriotic Service
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Directions to Cemetery / Gravesite:
On Private Property
From the interesection of Route 19 and Route 8 at Augusta go west on Route # for 5.7 miles. Turn right on a gravel lane. The cemetery is located 300 feet off the lane
Estimated based on above description
FindaGrave cies in 1948 per Leroy Wiley with an older relative visited the cemetery identified the grave of his great-grandfather, John Wiley Sr, a Rev War soldier who was born in 1732 and died in 1832 lacking 30 days of being 100 years old. His second wife, Hannah McCormick Seals, has also been reported being buried here
Author: Stephen W. Kay
John Wiley, Sr. was born in the year 1732. He served in Captain Archer’s Fifth Company of the First Battalion of the Washington County, Pennsylvania, Militia. According to family history, he was “…a man of large frame, raw-boned, more than six feet tall, dark-complexioned with heave eyebrows, high cheekbones, and a strong chin.”
John Wiley, Sr. married Elizabeth Susanna “Hannah” Vernon. She was born in 1735. Her date of death is not known. John and “Hannah” were the parents of ten children: Elijah, Elisha, Susannah, Elizabeth, Eli, John Jr., Jesse, Hiram, Joseph and Daniel. John Sr. married Mrs. Hannah McCormick Seals. She was the widow of Samuel Seals, who died in 1797 at Mason County, Kentucky. Hannah was born in 1758. Her date of death is not known.
Wiley settled on a branch of the Tenmile Creek at Washington County, Pennsylvania. This area was west of Fort Jackson and was identified on early maps as “Wiley’s Run.” He “…stopped for a time…” at the Redstone Fort at present-day Fayette County, Pennsylvania, where his son, Eli, was born in 1773. Wiley appeared in a 1783 tax list of Hempfield Township, Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania. He was assessed for two horses and two cattle. John Wiley, Sr. joined the migration to Mason County, Kentucky. He settled along Locust Creek near present-day Augusta, Bracken County, Kentucky. In the year 1800, he appeared on a tax list for Mason County, Kentucky. He was enumerated in the 1810 U.S. Census at Bracken County, Kentucky. His name appeared in tax assessment lists of Clermont County, Ohio in 1810, 1813 and 1814.
John Wiley, Sr., died in 1832, 100 days short of reaching his one hundredth birthday. He was laid to rest at the Wiley Cemetery at Bracken County, Kentucky. Hannah McCormick Seals Wiley is laid to rest beside him.
References:
1. Howard L. Leckey: Ten Mile Country and Its Pioneer Families.
2. Published Pennsylvania Archives, Series 3, Vol. 22, Pg. 402, 407; Series 6, Vol. 2, Pg. 15, 17-18.
3. Fred High: Waynesburg, Prosperous and Beautiful, Pg. 89.
4. G. Glenn Clift, compiler: Second Census of Kentucky-1800, (Compiled from tax lists), Pg. 318.
11. Survey Book C-230, Page C-230-173 (RG-17, Records of the Land Office, COPIED SURVEYS, 1681-1912. [Series #17.114] Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission, Pennsylvania State Archives) https://www.phmc.state.pa.us/
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