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Does someone know the family of Joseph H. Wiles born about 1822 (married first Alice Unknown and then Matilda or Malinda Jane Osborn) of Indiana?
I am hoping that someone can provide some direction here. I would like to find the parents of this Joseph H. Wiles and also learn what I can about his descendants.
This is what I know definitely.
* I have Joseph H. Wiles born about 1820-1825 (probably August 1822) in Ohio.
* In about 1844-45, he married a woman named Alice who was born in Ohio about 1824. I haven't been able to find a marriage record.
* In 1850, Joseph and Alice were in Henry County, Indiana and Joseph was a cabinet maker and their first child, Hannah A. Wiles is shown born about 1846 in Indiana.
* In about about 1851, they had their second child, a son William -- I believe his name was really Joseph William and he shows up in later records as Joseph W. Wiles.
* Sometime between Joseph William's birth and 1857, Alice died.
* Sometime between Joseph William's birth and 1857 Joseph and family moved to Hamilton County, IN. (I don't know whether Alice died before or after the move.)
* Joseph H. remarried July 2, 1857 to Malinda (marriage record says Malinda, everything else says Matilda) Jane Osborn in Hamilton County, Indiana.
* Joseph and Matilda have a daughter Mary E. Wiles born early 1858 and are on the Hamilton County Indiana Census in 1860 with Hannah, William and Mary E.
* Hannah Wiles, Joseph eldest daughter marries David A. Green in Clinton County, February 22, 1869. She and David have their first son, William Green, before the 1870 census.
* Joseph and Matilda are on the 1870 Sugar Creek Township, Clinton County Census with Mary E. (age 12), John (age 5), Alice (age 3) and Laura (age 1). Joseph is shown as a day laborer on this census instead of carpenter/cabinet maker.
* John appears to have died before 1870 in Clinton County.
* In the 1870 census, Matilda J. Wiles is shown with children John, Alice and Laura in Clinton County Indiana. Cuirously, the children's father's birthplace is shown as Iowa rather than Ohio. The relationship field is blank for all three of them and I'm wondering if Joseph and Matilda took them in or adopted them from a related Wiles family between 1860 & 1870 (there is an interesting birth gap after Mary E.) and there father was indeed really born in Iowa.
Marriage records for the children show:
Hannah A. Wiles married David A. Green 1/22/1869 in Clinton Co. IN
John Wiles married Lizzie (Elizabeth?) Applegate 11/19/1890 in Clinton Co., IN
Laura Wiles married Charles Applegate Amos 10/26/1890 in Clinton Co., IN
---- Not a typo, John Married an Applegate and Laura married an Amos with middle name Applegate.
Alice Wiles married Joshua Kerp August 15, 1888 in Clinton Co. IN
Joseph W. (William) Wiles married Cynthia Wellman June 8, 1872. in Hamilton County, IN
Mary E. Wiles married John Allen Burris August 18, 1872, in Hamilton County, IN
Lizzie Wiles (who I think was Lizzie Applegate Wiles married again December 1892 to John Lane so there was either a divorce (unlikely) or John Wiles died before 1892.
I think it is likely that Jospeh H. Wiles was closely related (cousin, uncle, brother??) to Peter Wiles (m. Elizabeth) born 1840 about but it's only an educated guess with circumstantial support at this point.
My husband's 2nd great grandmother was Joseph and Alice's daughter Hannah A. Wiles who married David A Green
Even with everything I've collected so far I've gotten completely stuck trying to figure out Joseph's ancestry.
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