WILEY, Samuel

SAMUEL WILEY

Identification on photo: Uncle Samuel Wiley, husband of Mary Wynkoop
Photo taken: Genelli Studio, 923 Olive Street, St. Louis MO, circa 1890
Purchased: March 2017 at Wildwood Antiques Mall, Wildwood FL

1850 Census > Maryland > Queen Anne's Dist. 1
WILEY, John T., 33 male, farmer born in PA
WILEY, Rebecca E., 33 female, born in MD
WILEY, Samuel T., 10 male, born in Delaware
WILEY, Lydia A., 8 female, Delaware
WILEY, William T., 6 male, Delaware
WILEY, Mary E., 4 female, Delaware
WILEY, Rebecca, 3 female, Maryland
WILEY, Benjamin, 11mo male, Maryland
WILEY, Lydia, 50 female, Pennsylvania

1864, Sep 7 - Samuel Wiley marries Mary Wynkoop (Wyncoop) in Macoupin County Illinois. That county sits 1 mile west of Litchfield Illinois where the couple later lived.

1880 Census > Illinois > Montgomery > Litchfield
WILEY, Samuel, 40, head, cooper, born in MD of MD parents
WILEY, Mary, 37, wife, keeping house, born in IL of VA and MD parents
WILEY, Virginia, 15, daughter, attends school, born in IL
WILEY, Charles, 13, son, attends school, born in IL
WILEY, Viola, 11, daughter, attends school, born in IL
WILEY, Nora, 7, daughter, born in IL

Litchfield is about 55 miles North-East of St. Louis MO.

Daughter Viola was married 09 Nov 1887 at her parents home 4019 Bellfontaine Road in St. Louis. She married W.S. Smith.

1900 Census > Missouri > St Louis County > St Louis > N. 11th Street
WILEY, Samuel T., head, Jan 1840, 60, born in Delaware of Delaware parents, carpenter
WILEY, Mary, wife, March 1843, 57, born in Illinois of VA and MD parents

Samuel T. Wiley's page at Findagrave says he was born 21 Jan 1840 in Wilmington DE. Died 7 July 1923 in Philadelphia PA, and is buried at Northwood Cemetery in Philadelphia next to his wife. But the 1880 Census says he was born in Maryland. The 1900 Census has him born in Delaware. I think the confusion lies in the fact that his family moved from Delaware to Maryland when Samuel was still young.

(I see a strong possibility that his wife Mary Wynkoop is a sister of George W. Wynkoop, born in Illinois 1849 to Virginia and Maryland parents. Both photos were found in the same booth at the same antique mall. See post directly below this one.)

Mary C. Wiley died 31 May 1931 in Philadelphia PA at age 88. Her death Certificate states that her husband was Samuel T. Wiley. She was born in Illinois to parents Joseph Wynkoop, who was born in Virginia, and Rosanna Pipper, born in Illinois. Informant was her daughter Viola M. Williams.

(NOTE - the 1850 Census for Buckeye Illinois has the Wynkoop family of Mary Wynkoop (8), her parents John & Rosanna Wynkoop, several siblings including 2yo brother Washington Wynkoop.)