Wiley M. Spears
Wiley M. Spears was born in Kentucky about 1826. On 12 December 1846, in Johnson County, Kentucky, on the Big Sandy, he married Elizabeth Butcher, a Virginian. In 1850 he was 24 and living in Johnson County with Elizabeth, 23, and two small daughters, Francis J., 2, and Arta, 1. Two sons, Samuel L. and Martin, followed in the 1850s.
In May 1851 the voters of the fifth district of Johnson County elected him constable. On 24 June 1851, at a special term of the county court held at the courthouse in Paintsville to qualify the new constables, he produced his commission from the governor, dated 9 June, and his certificate of election, took the oaths required by law, and entered into a bond of two thousand dollars with Garland Hart, Henry G. Hager and C. H. Porter as his sureties. A constable served the county's warrants and summonses and collected small debts by order of the justices.
He died before the summer of 1866. At the June term of the Johnson Circuit Court that year, John Richmond brought a suit against "Wiley Spears heirs". The court found that Sampson Porter, Elisabeth Porter, Jane Spears and Elijah Spears were not residents of Kentucky and were absent from the state, warned them to appear at the next term, and appointed J. F. Stewart to defend them. Elisabeth Porter was very probably his widow, married again to Sampson Porter, and Jane very probably his daughter Frances Jane, who married Samuel L. Baker in Johnson County that September.
Frances Jane named a son Wily M. Baker about 1875. When she died in Dickenson County, Virginia, in 1891, her husband gave her birthplace as Johnson County, Kentucky, and her parents as Wily and his wife; the commissioner wrote the surname Spencer.
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