Alonzo Eli Wiley

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Important Places: Massachusetts, Indiana, Ohio, Kentucky

Facts!

Born: September 1, 1839 in South Reading/Wakefield, Middlesex County, Massachusetts

Died: June 1, 1923 (age 83, had been living in the National Military Home in Jefferson Township near Dayton, Montgomery County, Ohio)

Buried: Glen Haven Cemetery, Harrison, Hamilton County, Ohio, USA, Plot Sec 2, Lot 85 with M. J. Wiley née Faudree 1831-1917

Married:

• from age 22 to 34 to Eliza Jane Morgan (married in Dearborn County, Indiana on July 13, 1861. They were married until she died in 1873.)
• from age 34 to 74 to Martha Jane (Faudree) Wiley (some sources name her Mattie Pearson. They were married until she died in 1917.)
• from age 74 to 83 to Caroline (Falter) Fackler Wiley (married in Cincinnati, Hamilton, Ohio on May 15, 1918. They were married until he died in 1923.)

Children (all with Eliza Jane Morgan):

• Edwin Ellsworth Wiley (1863-1898)
• Elmer Morgan Wiley (1864-1946)

Parents:

• Enos Wiley (1818-1906)
• Susan Celestia (Upham) Wiley (1819-1860)

Siblings:

• Ellen Celora (Wiley) Emerson (1842-1915)
• Eunice Amelia Wiley (1843-1859)
• Anna Frances (Wiley) Morgan (1846-1927)
• Lyman Augustine Wiley (1848-1929)
• Edwin Enos Wiley (1853-1886)
• Mary Alice (Wiley) Childs (1855-1906)

Military:

• Civil War
• Army, Signal Corps, Department of the Gulf
• Enlisted Mar. 31, 1864
• Served for three years
• More about the Signal Corps during the Civil War:
  • Union Army Signal Corps Setting Up Telegraph Wire during a Civil War Battle, c.1863
  • U.S. Army – Signal Corps Regimental History
  • Getting the Message Through: A Branch History of the U.S. Army Signal Corps

Residences:

Fun!

 

Sources:

• Find a Grave: Alonzo Eli Wiley
• Genealogical history of the town of Reading, Mass., including the present towns of Wakefield, Reading, and North Reading, with chronological and historical sketches, from 1639 to 1874 (“Wiley, Alonzo E., of South Reading, son of Enos and Susan C.; born at South Reading, 1839 ; enlisted 1864, for three years, in Signal Corps.”)
• Fold3: Name Card, Pension File, Pension File 2
• Joseph Willard Brown, The Signal Corps, U.S.A. in the War of the Rebellion