Re: john riley
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In reply to:
john riley
2/22/02
Martha,
Have you ever found out anything else about John Riley.I am the great grandson of William Maurice Riley married to Ann Steele.I have a picture of both William Maurice and Ann.My mother believes as you do that William Maurice came with his family from Ireland.She tells me that she has a newspaper clipping somewhere that relates this story. She is Blanche Riley Kelley and is 96 years old.I have been trying to locate the clipping, but have not come across it yet. I am sure if she still has it, I will find it eventually. She has such long names for the children of William Maurice and Ann in her family bible, my grandfather's name being "William Ferdinand Cortez Garfield Riley". No wonder they called him Jake.Would love to hear from you, I have just started researching my family history.Lines of Riley, Estes and Spann are all from around Fayette County, AL. She speaks of being born in Winfield, and visited back and forth there thru her early childhood. Jake Riley married Lula Belle Estes, daughter of Margaret Alice Spann and Andrew Phillips Estes. She talks a lot about her aunt Idella Riley Roycroft. Her father went back and forth from AL to the Delta and picked cotton, until moving when she was 6 years old, around 1917. We live in the Mississippi Delta.
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