BIO:  RISLEY, James, s/o John & Margaret Risley

Submitted by:  phill@redrock.net   (Phyllis Hill)

RISLEY   MILLER   ALLBURN   

History of Pike & Dubois Counties, Indiana; Chicago
Goodspeed Bros. & Co., Publishers, 1885
Pike County, Marion Twp, page 451

JAMES RISLEY is a son of John and Margaret Risley.  The father was a native
of New Jersey and the mother of Virginia.  They were married in the mother's
native country, and their union resulted in nine children.  They moved from 
Virginia to Kentucky and finally came to Pike County, Ind., where the father
and mother died.  James Risley was born at Petersburg, Pike Co., Ind.,
June 7, 1811; at that time, however, there was no town on the present site
of Petersburg.  At the age of nineteen years he married Martha Miller, of
Ohio, September 7, 1831, and their union was blessed with eight children.
Maria, Hannah, Eunice, Margareth, Polly, Lafayette, Martha (wife of Phillip
D. Allburn) and Eliza; all are dead except Martha.  Mr. Risley has a limited
English education and he and wife belong to the General Baptist Church.  In
politics he is a liberal voter and has served as township trustee for one
year.  He and wife have been married fifty-four years, and are now enjoying
the fruits of their early labor and the esteem and respect of all who know
them.  The little town of Velpen is built on a farm once owned by James
Risley.
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