• General Notes

  There is a quote in the book from Garnett M. Riley concerning the original Riley's.  Evidently they came over with Lafayette to fight in the Revolutionary War, and after the War, they settled in Culpepper, VA. 
  
        If you would like me to copy any of this information from the book in our local library, I will be happy to do so.  But, there are not too many dates given.  I would need your address since it is too much to E-mail.
  
       Hope this helps you!  Genealogy is so fascinating.  It is like solving a big mystery!
  
  Take care,
  Carol Riley Ackley in KY
  
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  I saw your family listings on rootsweb.  The Thomas Riley you have listed is
  my ggggg grandfather.  My family line is Thomas Riley-John Riley-Alfred
  Riley-Nancy Jane Riley-Mary Elizabeth "Mollie" Eggleston-Louis Shelby
  Cope-Elwood Thomas Cope-Linda Kaye Cope (me).  I have a pretty good Riley
  family history I would be glad to share if you want it.
  Kaye
  
  
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  1. Thomas RILEY. Thomas died in 1827 in Cam!pbell Co. KY.
  
  Thomas is reported to have come to America as a soldier under Gen. LaFayette during the American Revolutionary War with a brother in 1777 or 1779.  After the war he settled in Culpepper Co. Va. and moved to Kentucky with his family in the 1790s, settling on what was later known as the Dee Riley farm on Bank Lick Creek  in Campbell Co. KY.  
  
  Thomas' will is recorded at the Campbell Co. KY Courthouse, Will Book B, page 222.   It reads as follows:
  
       In the Name of God, Amen.  I Thomas Riley being perfect in mind and knowing that I must resign my spirit to God who gave it amd my body to the earth from which it was made do constitute this my last will and testament as follows, viz"
       Item 1st, Whereas my son John Riley when he was about seventeen years old when he left me in order to seek his fortune and therefore made himself of no benefit to me for the four years til he was of age to leave me and in consideration of a mare whi!ch I gave him after he was of age I do not by this will intend to give him nor his heirs anything more of my property.
       Item 2nd, Whereas my son Thomas Riley when he became of age and left me I then gave him a good horse.  I give him no more of my property.
       Item 3rd, Whereas I gave Sally Casey my daughter when she was married a bed and furniture and a cow and calf, her heirs are to have no more of my property.
       Item 4th, I give and bequeath to my son George Riley twenty acres of my land to be laid off to him next to Joseph Cowgills after he shall pay to Jane Harrell and susanna Riley my daughters the sum of two dollars each.
       Item 5th, I give and bequeath to my son Jacob Riley twenty acres of my land to be laid off next to George Riley (but so as not to take the dwelling house and orchard) when he shall have paid to my two daughters Jane Jarrell and Susanna Riley each two dollars.
       Item 6th, I give to my beloved wife thirty five qacre!s of my land being the balance of the tract of seventy-five acres during her natural life together with the mansion house the orchard and all the appurtenances  belonging to the 35 acres, at the decease of my beloved wife the said land and appurtenances is to belong to my son Jacob Riley provided he shall take care and see that my beloved wife has all the benefits arising from said land and premises during her natural life, and at her death pays to my daughters Jane Jarrell and Susanna Riley five dollars each.  I also give to my beloved wife all my household and kitchen furniture, a cow and calf, my two creatures (horses), six sheep, and the hogs for the use of the family and farm.
       Item 7th, I give and bequeath to my daughter susanna a bed and bedding, one cow and heifer, and three sheep.
       Schedule.  I also give to my beloved wife Elizabeth Riley all the farming utensils, which together with the household and kitchen furniture, sheep, hogs, and cattle, I des!ire that she may dispoxe of as she shall think fit at her decease, but the horses if they shall still be worth giving at her decease sahll be for and given to my daughter Susanna Riley.
       I - testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal this 6 day of January 1827.
                                                      Thomas Riley  (Seal)
  Jefse Wayt
  Hayden Nelson
  
       The foregoing last will and testament of Thomas Riley deceased was this day produced to the court and proven according to law by the oaths of Jesse Wait and Hayden Nelson subscribing witnesses hereto and ordered to be recorded.  Whereupon the same is recorded.  Given under my hand this 27th day of August 1827.
                                                        James Taylor, Clerk
  
  NOTE BY JAMES RILEY IN HIS BOOK:  In the above will of Thomas Riley, his son Jacob Riley was bequeathed 20 acres of land and was to inherit the 35 acres given his wife after her demise!.  Jacob's son, Francis Marion Riley as known as "Dee" Riley.  This was undoubtedly the farm referred to in Garnett Riley's statement that the original Riley brothers, after first settling in Culpepper County, VA, then moved to a farm  in Kentucky on a hill above Bank Lick Creek in what was then Campbell Co. but is now Kenton Co. and is the farm now known as the "Dee Riley Farm".  (To the witer, this has been one of the "missing links' of information tying the Family Tree together. jkr).
  
  NOTE LINDA KAYE COPE LANIER:  Much of the information for the descendants of Thomas Riley is found in an unbound book in the Boone County Kentucky Library entitled, "An Incomplete Genealogy of Thomas Riley Who Died in Campbell County, Kentucky in 1827, and Whose Descendants Lived in Boone, Campbell, and Kenton County, Kentucky for Several Generations" compiled and reproduced by  by James K. Riley in 1970.  Most of the information had been collected by his father, Edgar Carlisle Rile!y, Sr. (1883-1945).  Other sources of information are Census Records, Tax Records, Marriage Records,  Cemetery Records, "History of Short Creek Baptist Church", and the Barton Papers.
  
  Thomas married Elizabeth [RILEY].
  
  They had the following children:
       2    i.   John (~1782-1833)
       3    ii.  Thomas (1784-)
       4    iii. Sally
       5    iv.  George
       6    v.   Jane
       7    vi.  Jacob (1801-1893)
       8    vii. Susanna
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  The Rileys and Waymans must have moved to Campbell Co. KY from Culpepper Co.
  VA between 1800 and 1810.  John Riley is listed on the 1810 Campbell Co. KY.
    The listing on that page of the census has Solomon Wayman, Aaron Waymon,
  Harmon Waymon, Moses Wayman, and then John Reily.  On the next page is
  listed Thomas Reily.  Some names listed on the page with Thomas Reily are
  Martin Cowgill, William Pickett, Joseph Cowgill, Daniel Cowgill, Hames
  Holeman, Joseph Harris, and Hudson Jones.  In Thomas Riley's will part of
  the property mentioned joined the "Cowgill" property.
  
  Unfortunately, it will be very difficult to determine if they moved to
  Kentucky before 1800 because the 1800 Virginia Census records were destroyed
  in the War of 1812 and there was no 1800 Census taken for Kentucky.  There
  must be some records for a census there, but they are probably included in
  Virginia.
  Kaye (Lanier) 4/2002
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  I have nothing on William Callent just on his wife Martha Riley.  But I do suspect that the Callents were part of a group that left the Germanna Colonies in VA and moved to KY.  You can check these out it is one of those rootsweb Lists.(germanna_colonies). Here is what I have on the Rileys: Thomas b. abt 1760 settled in Culpeper Co.VA married an Elizabeth ? (might be Hume?) In the 1790's after the RW they moved to KY.  There children were: John W, b. 1782 VA m. Frances Wayman, Thomas Jr. b1784 m. Sarah ?. , Sally b. abt 1798 m. Henry Casey, George m. Polly Ann ?, Jane married  Beverley Jarrell, Jacob m. Mildred Huffman and Susanna never married. Going back to their son James Riley b. 1801 and his wife Elizabeth Vaughn that had Martha that married into the Callent family.  Hope that answers your question .
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  ID: I16469
  Name: Elizabeth Senour 1 2 3
  Sex: F
  Birth: 24 OCT 1805 4 3
  Death: BEF. 1 AUG 1846 in Zionsville, Boone County, Indiana 5 6
  
  Father: John Senour b: 14 NOV 1786 in Ravensworth, Fairfax County, Virginia
  Mother: Rhoda Wayman b: 31 MAR 1787 in Culpeper (now Madison) County, Virginia
  
  Marriage 1 Thomas Reilly
  Married: 30 AUG 1826 in Covington, Campbell County, Kentucky 3
  Children
  Louisa Reilly b: ABT. 1827 in Kentucky
  Martha Reilly b: ABT. 1829 in Indiana
  
  Marriage 2 Andrew Laughlin b: ABT. 1810 in Ireland
  Married: 9 JUN 1834 in Marion County, Indiana 7
  Children
  Mary Laughlin b: ABT. 1835 in Indiana
  Rhoda Laughlin b: ABT. 1836 in Indiana
  Elizabeth Laughlin b: ABT. 1839 in Indiana
  Esther Loughlin b: ABT. 1842 in Indiana
  
  Sources:
  Title: Clore-Glore Genealogy
  Author: Delma Rae Carpenter, Sr. (1881-1967)
  Publication: Original in possession of D. Rae Carpenter, Jr., copy available at Madison Co., VA Library
  Note: Notes of John Calhoun Garr, author of the "Garr Genealogy" in possession of the author and consulted for this manuscript. Original in possession of Rae Carpenter, 401 Overlook Circle, Lexington, VA 2 4450-1739
  Repository:
  Note: Copy sent to Cathi Clore Frost by D. Rae Carpenter, Jr. December 1999
  Call Number:
  Media: Manuscript
  Page: p 70, p 142
  Title: Indiana Marriages Through 1850
  Author: Indiana State Library Genealogy Division
  Publication: http://www.statelib.lib.in.us/www/indiana/genealogy/mirr.html, 24 Jan 1998 and other dates
  Note: Database compiled from original county records
  Repository:
  Call Number:
  Media: Electronic
  Text: name Elizabeth Riley
  Title: Mark W. Smith Family Tree
  Author: Mark W. Smith
  Publication: http://worldconnect.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?db=mws2, 26 December 2001
  Repository:
  Call Number:
  Media: Book
  Title: Clore-Glore Genealogy
  Author: Delma Rae Carpenter, Sr. (1881-1967)
  Publication: Original in possession of D. Rae Carpenter, Jr., copy available at Madison Co., VA Library
  Note: Notes of John Calhoun Garr, author of the "Garr Genealogy" in possession of the author and consulted for this manuscript. Original in possession of Rae Carpenter, 401 Overlook Circle, Lexington, VA 2 4450-1739
  Repository:
  Note: Copy sent to Cathi Clore Frost by D. Rae Carpenter, Jr. December 1999
  Call Number:
  Media: Manuscript
  Page: p 142
  Deceased at the time her father's will was made as it mentions Elizabeth Laughlin's heirs.
  Title: Mark W. Smith Family Tree
  Author: Mark W. Smith
  Publication: http://worldconnect.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?db=mws2, 26 December 2001
  Repository:
  Call Number:
  Media: Book
  Text: date between 1840-1860
  Title: Indiana Marriages Through 1850
  Author: Indiana State Library Genealogy Division
  Publication: http://www.statelib.lib.in.us/www/indiana/genealogy/mirr.html, 24 Jan 1998 and other dates
  Note: Database compiled from original county records
  Repository:
  Call Number:
  Media: Electronic 

Details of Thomas' family with Elizabeth Senour