1925 Biography - Wiley Mathis
Wiley Mathis, the first, came from North Carolina, lived a while in Tennessee and from there to Illinois, just what time is not known but from early records of the county he lived here in 1835. He settled in the section of the county east and perhaps a little south of Vienna. His wife's given name was Lucretia. Their children were Wiley (2), Richard (2), Jane (2), Amanda (2), Mary (2). Wiley (2) married Caroline Flynn, they had Ferdinand (3), Abraham (3), Richard (3), Thomas (3), Amanda (3), Harriet (3), Minerva (3), Sidney (3). Ferdinand (3) married Rebecca Clay, their children were Calvin (4), who married Etta Simmons and has Lowand A. (5); Alonzo (4) married Alice Reed; Oma (4) married Claud Hogue and has Marie (5), Clement (5), Violet (5), Helen (5), Claud (5), Alton (5); Izora (4) married George Menly and has Edna (5); Alfred (4) not married; Nellie (4) married Joseph Elkins and has Genevive (5), Raymond (5), Hannah (5); Loyd (4) married May Robinson and has Loyd (5), Joseph (5), Evyline (5), James Ferdinand (5); Abraham (3) married Winifred Legate. They have Fred (4), Joseph (4), Dora (4), Charles (4), Clarence (4), and Samuel (4); Thomas (3) married Cora Farmer. They had Horace (4), Fred (4) Myrtle (4), Elizabeth (4), Paul (4); Richard (3) married Julia Farmer, they had Wiley (4). Daniel (4), Nonnie (4), Lydia (4), Clifton (4), Julia (4); Sidney (3) married Frank Fisher. They had Eunice (4), Minnie (4); Amanda (3) married first Mr. Stephens, second Mr. Parrody; Harriett (3) married John Kelly; Minerva (3) married Mr. Barnett and had Gussie (4); Richard (2) married Matilda Morris, they had Susan (3), Elizabeth (3), Mahala (3), Alice (3), Isabell (3), James (3), Calvin (3), Granville (3), D. W. (3). Elizabeth (3) married James Hogg, they had Edward (4), Curtis (4), Otis (4), Claud (4), Daisy (4), Matilda (4). Edward (4) is an M. E. minister belonging to the Southern Illinois Conference. He married Miss Galagah and has Charles (5), Laura (5), Ola (5); Curtis (4) married Lula Penn, they had Truman (5); Otis (4) married Dora Mohler, they have Cyril (5), Gertrude (5), Illma (5), Edgar (5); Claud (4) married Oma (4) (see Mathis); Daisy (4) married Thomas Watson and has Dorothy (5), Gertrude (5), Thomas (5); Matildah (4) married Willis Ragsdale and has Ralph (5), Gathel (5), Rheba (5); Alice (3) married J. C. B. Heaton, they had Fred (4), Roy (4); Mahala never married; Isabell (3) not married; James (3) married Laura Jane (see Harvick); Granville (3) married; Calvin (3) married Elizabeth Pearce; D. W. (3) married Alice Hankins, their children are Clifford (4), Ralph (4). Morris (4) Kate (4), Ernest (4), Frank (4), Thelma (4), Alice F. (4). Ralph (4) married Mary Ragains, they had Harriet (5); Morris (4) married Eunice Pancoast; Kate (4) married John Rhodes and has John Jr. (5); Ernest (4) is an M. E. minister; he married Lyndall (see Chapman). The other children are at home. Susan (3) married Addison Gillespie, they had Samuel (4), Paralee (4), Dora (4). Samuel (4) married Rosa (see Veach); Dora (4) married James (see Cummins). Jane (2) married Jackson Rose; Mary (2) married Mathew Rose, children Sarah (3), Henry (3) Franklin (3), Dudley (3); Amanda (2), Sarah (2). One of the two latter married a Mr. Hawkins.
Extracted 08 Feb 2017 by Norma Hass from 1925 A History of Johnson County, Illinois, by Mrs. P. T. Chapman, pages 405-406.
