James Riley was born in Ohio, moved with his mother to Kosciusko County Indiana where he married Sarah Ellen Brady. The removed to Marion County Iowa where they had their children. They removed again to Linn County Kansas between 1869 and 1870. Sarah died sometime in the next ten years and the 1880 census found James with his youngest children in Coffey County Kansas.


John Riley (b ?, Ohio, d abt 1828, Ohio)
Married Joanna (?) Riley (b abt 1805, Kentucky, died 1873

Children:
America Riley born (?)

James Riley born abt. 1824, Ohio; died Unknown
Married Sarah Ellen Brady born abt. 1827, Ohio, died
between 1870 and 1880 Kansas
Children:
Mary, born abt. 1846, Indiana
Martha, born abt. 1848, Indiana
Elizabeth, born abt.1851, Indiana
Jane, born abt.1854, Iowa
Francis M. (aka Marion F, Frank), born abt. 1856, Iowa
William, born abt. 1859, Iowa
Ellen, born abt. 1861, Iowa
Irene, born abt. 1863, Iowa
America, born abt. 1865, Iowa
James, born abt. 1869, Iowa

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