m. Mary Lipscomb, 1858. She died of Yellow fever on their way to Texas Oct 30, 1859, near Brownstown, in Sevier County, Arkansas.
They had one child, John Lipscomb Medearis.
Confederacy during the Civil War as a Corporal, Surgeon, Co. G, 16th Texas Infantry.
Wiley married again, to Kate Smith (daughter of William Stark Smith and Nancy A. Roundtree of Tennessee) and had several children.
Sources
"Some Yancey, Medearis, and Hicks Descendants", Douglas Mannon Willis, 1973 - 375 pages, Privately Published in Dallas, Texas. Page 222.
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DNA Connections
It may be possible to confirm family relationships with Wiley 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 Wiley: