William
Riley
Born in Wellsburg, Virginia
Ancestors 
Brother of
Harriet Margaret (Riley) Darling, Isaac Riley, John Riley, Eliza (Riley) Wood, Mary (Riley) Park, Margaret (Riley) Gamble, George Washington Riley, Abraham Shrimplin Riley, Rachel Marie (Riley) Welker, Hannah Riley, Almira (Riley) Wolf, Susannah (Riley) Spurgin and Nicholas Riley Jr.
Husband of
Susan (Cummins) Riley
— married
1827 in Knox County, Ohio
Descendants 
Father of
Maria (Riley) Sproat, Harriet (Riley) Gilstrap, George Washington Riley, Nicholas Jackson Riley, James Marion Riley and Lewis Tullis Riley
Died
at age 80
in Fayette County, Illinois
Profile last modified
| Created 19 Nov 2010
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Biography
William was the eldest son of Nicholas and Hannah (Shrimplin) Riley and the brother of Isaac, John, Harriet, Eliza, Margaret, Mary, Abraham Shrimplin, Maria Rachel, Hannah, Almira, Susannah, George Washington, and Nicolas, Jr.. He was born in 1903 in Wellsburg, Virginia, which is now in West Virginia. His parents moved their family to Knox County, Ohio, in 1906, where Nicholas established a farm.
William married Susan Cummins in 1827. William and Susan had six sons and two daughters, all born in Ohio: Maria, Harriet, George Washington, William McCray, Nicholas Jackson, James, Eli Bruce, and Lewis Tellis. In 1853, William and Susan and their 8 children moved to Fayette County, Illinois, and settled on a farm near Beecher City, Illinois. The journey took them 21 days from Ohio. They traveled with two wagons, one pulled by horses and the other pulled by oxen named Beer and Brandy. Susan died in 1875 and is buried in Illinois. William died in 1883 and is buried in Riley Chapel Cemetery, Knox County, Ohio, where his parents and some of his other family members are buried.
Sources
- "United States Census, 1850," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MXQF-XR7 : accessed 24 September 2015), William Riley, Butler, Knox, Ohio, United States.
- Find A Grave: Memorial #57464842 for William Riley
- "The Descendants of William and Susan Riley," pp. 6-8.
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It may be possible to confirm family relationships with William by comparing test results with other carriers of his Y-chromosome or his mother's mitochondrial DNA. However, there are no known yDNA or mtDNA test-takers in his direct paternal or maternal line. It is likely that these autosomal DNA test-takers will share some percentage of DNA with William:
It may be possible to confirm family relationships with William by comparing test results with other carriers of his Y-chromosome or his mother's mitochondrial DNA. However, there are no known yDNA or mtDNA test-takers in his direct paternal or maternal line. It is likely that these autosomal DNA test-takers will share some percentage of DNA with William:
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~6.25%
Ernie Allsop
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23andMe, yourDNAportal ERN940bc47a
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AncestryDNA, yourDNAportal ERN940bc47a, Ancestry member einred
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~3.12%
David Riley :
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Sharon Casteel
Riley-4397 and Riley-376 appear to represent the same person because: Dates and wife match.
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Rejected matches › William F. Riley (1801-1892)
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