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- His surname is sometimes spelled Whitely, Whiteley. It is notable that a "George S. Whiteley" is recorded, on an index card clearly transcribed from older records, as born 5 Dec 1798 at Shelburne, Vermont. Chittenden and Shelburne are about sixty miles apart, so this is probably a different individual, but worth keeping track of.
"WHITLEY, GEORGE L., far., Sec. 26 ; P.O. Fayette; born in Chittenden, Vt., Dec. 4, 1799 moved to Dearborn Co., Ind., in 1821; was among the early settlers of that county. Was married there to Sarah Riggs; she was born in Philadelphia in 1804; they came to Linn County in 1844, and to this county in 1850; owns 320 acres of land. Mrs. W. died Aug. 12, 1869; she was the mother of ten children -- Sarah (now Mrs. Chessman), Caroline, (Brace), Elizabeth (Bell), Lydia (Webb), Electa (Richardson), John H., Frederic M. and George are living; William and Mary are buried in Indiana; George who lives on the home farm, was married Aug. 24, 1869, to Lucy T. Lumsden; she was born in Ireland Dec. 14, 1846; have three children -- Ada, Jennie and Carrie." [The History of Fayette County, Iowa, citation details below]
An unattributed, undated two-page typescript posted to ancestry.com by Christie Dennis, labelled "Story of John Henry Whiteley and his brother Frederick M Whiteley", has this to say about their father: "Lehman Whiteley was a successful farmer and also conducted an extensive business in shipping hay and other farm products down the Ohio and Mississippi rivers to New Orleans. When the subject of this sketch was about ten years of age the family moved to Quincy, Illinois, making the trip by boat down the Ohio river and up the Mississippi. The father had a brother living at Fayette, Iowa, whom he intended to join, and the family remained at Quincy three months until the brother came after them with horse and wagon. On their arrival in Iowa, the subject's father rented a farm near Fayette, where he lived two years, at the end of that time buying a quarter section of land near Cornhill postoffice. When the subject was about nineteen years of age he and his father were engaged during the winter months in splitting rails several miles from home. In the woods their only protection was a palisade of boards to break the force of the wind and keep the snow from drifting on them, and here they slept at night on the ground, without roof or other protection. Here they remained until they had split four thousand rails."
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Nielsen Hayden genealogy
1799 - 1882 (82 years)
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