Biography of Wyley B. Corley, Franklin Co, AR

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SOURCE: History of Benton, Washington, Carroll, Madison, Crawford,
Franklin, and Sebastian Counties, Arkansas. Chicago: The Goodspeed
Publishing Co., 1889.

Wyley B. Corley was born in Independence County, Ark., March 15, 1831,
and is a son of Nathaniel and Matilda (Whickers) Corey, natives of
South Carolina and Tennessee, respectively. After their marriage the
parents immigrated [p.1233] to Lawrence County, Ark., and there reared
their children. Mr. Corey served in the Florida War, under Gen. Wayne,
and died about 1849. When nineteen years of age our subject left the
parental roof and spent three years in Vandal, Ill., engaged in buying
and shipping apples the greater part of the time. He came to Franklin
County, Ark., in May, 1856, and until 1861 resided near Ozark. He then
enlisted under Gen. McCullough as lieutenant of Company C, McRea's
infantry regiment, in which he served about a year, and then joined
the cavalry. His health having been shattered he was on recruiting
duty most of the time, but he participated in the fight at Oak Hill
and several skirmishes. After being paroled at Clarksville he returned
to Ozark, and until a few years ago speculated in land and dealt in
stock. In 1884 he moved upon his present farm, which is situated on
Boston Mountains, eighteen miles north of Ozark, and contains 200
acres of land, sixty of which are under cultivation. July 10, 1859,
Mr. Corley was married, near Ozark, to Malinda Bourland, a native of
this county, and daughter of D. L. Bourland, an early settler of
Arkansas. Mr. and Mrs. Corley have four children: Mary T. (wife of J.
M. Roach), Virginia Lee (a widow), M. D. (a young man) and Florence.
Our subject, his wife and all his children but Florence are members of
the Cumberland Presbyterian Church. Mr. Corley is a Master Mason, and
before the war served the community four years as deputy sheriff.