Jefferson County KS Archives Obituaries.....WILEY, Joseph Miner  July 18, 1930
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The Meriden Message
Jefferson County
Friday
July 18, 1930

Joseph Miner Wiley.
Joseph Miner WILEY, son of Charles and Phoebe Wiley, wa sborn near Clarkville,
Clinton County, Ohio, Jan. 11, 1848, and died at his home near Ozawkie, Kan.,
July 2, 1930, in his 83rd year.
He came with his parents to Stewardsville, Mo., in 1851, and one to Kansas in
1861, settling on the old homestead two and one-half miles north of Oskaloosa,
but moving to his farm near Ozawkie fifty years ago.
He was married to Martha Catherine GRAY, Dec. 21, 1876, and most of their
married life was spent on the home farm, where, as a fine Christian neighbor and
friend, we hope Mrs. Wiley will continue to live.
They had no children, but out of the kindness of their hearts, raised four
orphan boys.
The home of Mr. Wiley has been a Christian home a long time. Mrs. Wiley joined
the United Brethren church in 1893, under the pastoriate of Rev. S.C. COBLENTZ,
and Mr. Wiley joined in 1897 under the pastorate of Rev. J.L. THOMPSON, making
the Lord a present of himself to start the New Year right and he kept at it for
fifty years.
He was active in polictics several years, was Deputy Sheriff of Jefferson County
in 1874-75. Township Treasurer several years, and member of the Hays School
Board seventeen years.
"Uncle Joe" as he was familiarily called, was a man of strong convictions, and
kindly disposition who numbered his friends by his acquaintances. Almost the
last act of his life was a good deed for a poor woman. In his passing the
community has lost a valuable companion, and relatives a kind advisor.
Besides his wife, he leaves a number of nephews and nieces to mourn his death,
and a multitude of friends to grieve with them.
We shall meet in that blessed harbor, 
When the storms of life are o'er.
We shall meet and cast the anchor
By that fair celestial shore.


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