I104905: Henry BONNER (ABT 1724

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Spouse: Nancy Cate

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never married.

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Around 1854 the three brothers Wiley, Zacchaeus II, and P. Larkin Corley decided to move with their families to the great new state of Texas. Perhaps it was the heroic stories and fabulous tales that attracted the men to Texas whose statehood was declared in 1845. The three families equipped themselves with covered wagons and all the supplies they would need and made their journey with Texas as their goal. Traveling with them were several other families to include Wiley Woolley, several Leach families, and probably others. They arrived finally at the Sabine River and finding it impossible to cross, pitched camp to wait for the water to go down. Some of the families planted quick maturing crops and even corn to help replenish their food supplies. When the waters finally receded, they did not move on. Perhaps they stayed to gather their crops, perhaps they were tired, perhaps the land was so beautiful - and their quest for heroism in Texas burned low. For whatever reason, they never reached their destination of Texas.

The old log house built by Wiley Corley has been moved to downtown Florien, LA.
Around 1854 the three brothers Wiley, Zacchaeus II, and P. Larkin Corley decided to move with their families to the great new state of Texas. Perhaps it was the heroic stories and fabulous tales that attracted the men to Texas whose statehood was declared in 1845. The three families equipped themselves with covered wagons and all the supplies they would need and made their journey with Texas as their goal. Traveling with them were several other families to include Wiley Woolley, several Leach families, and probably others. They arrived finally at the Sabine River and finding it impossible to cross, pitched camp to wait for the water to go down. Some of the families planted quick maturing crops and even corn to help replenish their food supplies. When the waters finally receded, they did not move on. Perhaps they stayed to gather their crops, perhaps they were tired, perhaps the land was so beautiful - and their quest for heroism in Texas burned low. For whatever reason, they never reached their destination of Texas.

Wiley, the oldest of the three brothers, patented land in Sabine Parish Court House in 1859. Wiley and Zacchaeus both married Leaches though they were not sisters. Larkin married Eliza Jane Fitts.

From these three Corleys have descended hundreds of what we call Louisiana Corleys today most of whom still live in Sabine Parish, LA. The two brothers Clinton and Volentine remained in AL living on the land granted to their father for his service in Washington's Army.

Wiley and Mary Ann Leach had 10 children all born in AL before the covered wagon trek to Texas. Noah Brown Corley, the youngest child, died shortly before they moved from Alabama. Wiley patented land on Toro Creek a few miles southeast of the present town of Florien, LA where he farmed and had a saw mill. A part of what is believed to be the original double-pen house still stands on that property today. There were two nearby water mills on the creek, one belonging to Wiley. Here he sawed rough lumber, ground grain, and utilized it in as many ways as possible. Wiley died of tuberculosis in 1864. ^[S2]

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V. Anne, b. 8th May, 1709, further unknown.

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Spouse unknown.

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ii. MARY ANN MIERS, b. January 16, 1816.
Spouse: William Martin Disc #64 Pin #958232

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"Guerdon H. Pendleton((6)), b. at "Edmundton," Caroline Co., Va., April 4, 1817; removed to Clarke Co., Va.; d. about 1877, aged sixty years. Married (May 11, 1854) Jane Byrd, daughter of Mann Randolph Page."

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My Southern Family

Henry BONNER

ABT 1724 - ____

ID Number: I104905

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Rebecca CHANCELLOR

ABT 1800 - ____

ID Number: I37656

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Wiley CORLEY

11 Oct 1811 - 16 Mar 1864

ID Number: I690

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Anne DUVALL

8 May 1709 - ____

ID Number: I85635

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JOHN de GRAY

BEF 1350 - ____

ID Number: I70097

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Robert Martin HANCOCK

Elizabeth Susannah LONGMIRE

18 Nov 1837 - 18 Nov 1914

ID Number: I7587

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Mary Ann MIRES

16 Jan 1816 - BEF 1906

ID Number: I98239

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Guerdon Huntingdon PENDLETON

7 Apr 1817 - 30 Jan 1878

ID Number: I41572

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