Biographical Sketch of Wiley F. James, Johnson County, Missouri
Post Oak Township
>From "The History of Johnson County, Missouri," 
Kansas City Historical Co. 1881

WILEY F. JAMES,

farmer and stock-raiser, P.O. Cornelia. He was born in Monroe county,
Tennessee, August 16, 1829.  Son of John James, also a native of
Tennessee.  John James was born in 1805, and died since the civil war.
In 1837 the subject of this sketch came with his parents to Missouri,
and settled on the Warrensburg and Clinton road, about eleven miles
south of Warrensburg.  Young James attended the first school taught at
Shiloh, by Alexander Marrs.  He lived there on his father's farm till
1855, when imbued the spirit of adventure, he made a journey to the
Golden State.  He soon returned to Johnson county, but in 1860 he again
went to California, where he remained till the war had closed.  After
again returning to Post Oak township, he married Mary Runner, daughter
of Michael Runner.  The names of the children are: John B., Lee W., and
Hattie.  His farm consists of 292 acres, most of which is tillable,
possessing the advantages of timber and creek.  He also buys and ships
considerable stock. During the civil war Mrs. James, then a young woman,
witnessed some of the most heart-rending ferocities of blood-thirsty
men.  One day her brother was shot down, before her eyes, in their door-
yard, and while the neighbors were burying his remains, her father was
shot dead upon his door steps.  While no blame is laid upon any
particular citizen of this state, it may be said, without fear of
contradiction, that for such conduct, on the part of any man or body of
men, no sufficient cause ever existed.

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