. Electric railway gazette . theily physician, Walter. Being somewhat;hievous and wild, but never vicious, he wasamed Wiley, indicating that he was wild,:h name he retained, although, as he grewlans estate, he proved to be rather sedatethoughtful. When five years of age his tfJfi anJ ■* Di^ father moved, by wagons, from Georgia toJefferson County, xArk., taking with him overforty slaves and his slave wife and her children,settling on the Governor Byrd plantation, twelvemiles above Pine Bluff, on the Arkansas river,where he died in 1858. When on his death bedhe told Ann he had made provision fo
. Electric railway gazette . theily physician, Walter. Being somewhat;hievous and wild, but never vicious, he wasamed Wiley, indicating that he was wild,:h name he retained, although, as he grewlans estate, he proved to be rather sedatethoughtful. When five years of age his tfJfi anJ ■* Di^ father moved, by wagons, from Georgia toJefferson County, xArk., taking with him overforty slaves and his slave wife and her children,settling on the Governor Byrd plantation, twelvemiles above Pine Bluff, on the Arkansas river,where he died in 1858. When on his death bedhe told Ann he had made provision for the free-dom of her and her children. She maintainedto the hour of her death that it was Mr. Jonessintention to set her and her children free, but nomanumission papers could be found. Ann diedwith the belief that he had prepared the papers,but if he did, they were destroyed, and she andher children were robbed of their freedom. Thefamily were sold, by the administrator of theestate, to one Peter Finerty, who held them a. short time and sold them to General JamesYell, a distinguished lawyer and planter of PineBluff. Wiley was sent to the plantation, anddrove the gin mules during the cotton ginningseason. When only ten years of age, on the marriageof Pitts, Gen. Yells only son, Wiley was a mar-riage gift to the young benedict, who made himhis body servant, and treating him kindly. Attwelve years of age he drove his mistresses carriage horses, and was the special trusted servantof Col. Yell and his wife. While in this servicehe improved himself in every way possible, andlaid the foundation of that self-reliance andsound judgment which stamps him now aremarkable man. On the inauguration of thecivil war, he attended his master as his campservant. At the death of Gen. Yell, who fell while leading a charge on a Federal battery, at the battleof Mansfield, La., Wiley at once joined the Yellfamily, who were refugees at Waco, he served as porter in a mercantile houseone ye
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