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My great great great grandparents Henry M. Elder and Amy C. Elder were both born in Georgia within the first decade of the nineteenth century. Henry may have been from Oconee or Clarke Co., where many other Elders had earlier settled. They moved to De Soto Co., Mississippi, before the 1840 census and then moved to Lafayette Co., Mississippi. One of their sons was Seaburne WILEY Elder. In a year in Georgia early enough for Henry and Amy's eldest son Edmund to have been born within a year or two, an Amy Wiley married on Mitchell Elder (I think in Harris County). Because of the presence of the name WILEY as my great great granduncle's middle name, the existence of an Amy Wiley at the right time and reasonable place for someone inching westward, the appearance of several men named SEABORN WILEY in early Georgia censuses, and the fact that my great great great grandfather Henry sometimes appears as just H.M., I am wondering whether the M might not stand for Mitchell and thus whether gr. gr. gr. grandmother Amy Elder was a Wiley. I am hoping to find that Henry and Amy named their second son after one of Amy's Wiley kinsmen, if my ancestress was indeed a Wiley.(I have also seen in censuses Georgians named Seaborn--Seaburne, etc.--Wiley Jones and thus realize that there might have been a popular minister by the name of Seaburn Wiley after whom a number of otherwise unrelated folk might have named sons. This seems to be the case with one Littleberry Orgain, a minister in Brunswick Co., Virginia. Then again there may be here a Wiley-Jones connexion.)
Bill Fuller
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