Wiley Tipton b 7 Aug 1835 Buncombe Co NC d 3 Dec 1892 Scioto Co OH; buried Friendship Cemetery, Pond Run, Scioto Co Oh; s/o Jackson Tipton and Camilla Whitson. Wiley Tipton m. 17 Feb 1855 Russell Co VA to Nancy Vance b 22 Jul 1836 Russell Co VA d 6 Feb 1920; buried Greenlawn Cemetery, Portsmouth, OH; d/o David Vance and Elizabeth Betty Rose. Wiley Tipton military service, Corporal, Co B, 39th Mounted Infantry, Union Army. Children of Willey Tipton and Nancy Vance;

1. Sarah Elizabeth Tipton b abt 1857 Wise Co VA

2. David Tipton b abt 1858 Russell Co VA

3. John Tipton b abt 1859 VA

4. William Tipton b 10 Oct 1865 KY

5. Elizabeth Tipton b abt 1867 VA

6. Fannie Francis Tipton b 28 Apr 1868 VA d 3 Oct 1951 Huntington Park, Inglewood, CA; m. 13 Sept 1890 to Charles Claredon Cunningham b 25 Dec 1867 Hancock Co WV d 9 Jul 1952 El Sereno, Inglewood Co CA; s/o Abel Robinson Cunningham and Martha M Atkinson. Children of Charles Claredon Cunningham and Fannie Francis Tipton; i. Estie Cunningham b 1 Sept 1894 ii. Ann Cunningham b 23 Nov 1896 Portsmouth, Scioto Co OH iii. Goldie Cunningham b 23 Jan 1898 Clay Twp, OH iv. Ethel Cunningham b abt 1899

7. Camelia Tipton b abt 1870 VA; m. Emery Kline b abt 1871 OH

8. Can Tipton

9. Alfred Tipton b 26 Sept 1878 Greenup Co KY

1860 Wise Co VA Census
211 Tipton, Willie 23 M Farmer NC
211 Tipton, Nancy 22 F Housekeeper TN
211 Tipton, Sarah E 3 F VA
211 Tipton, David 2 M VA
211 Tipton, John 9/12 M VA

Census: 16 Aug 1850 Yancy Co., North Carolina
Census: Living near wifes parents and grandparents 23 Jun 1860 Wise Co., Virginia
Event: Confederate 39th Kentucky Infantry Military Service ABT 1864 Kentucky
Census: 1 Jun 1880 Globe School House, Greenup, KY

Note: Wiley spent his early life on the family farm in Buncombe County and that after his father died he moved to Kentucky and lived on Big Mud Creek for six months and then moved to Ohio. He moved back to Kentucky and enlisted in the Union Army at Peach Orchard. He was discharged in September of 1865. Family legend is that once he was captured by the rebels and made to dig his own grave but before he was to be shot made his escape. He was injured in his right arm while retreating from a raid on Saltsville, VA 24 Dec 1864 when his horse fell and rolled on him burying the hammer of his gun into his right arm below the elbow.

Wiley was treated by his Lt who rolled the horse off of him. He was not able to soldier after that and carried his arm in a sling until his discharge in Louisville, KY. After the war the family lived in Lawrence Co., KY near the Kanawha and Tug River then they moved to Green up Co., KY near Bennett's Mill on Tygart Creek in 1877. Wiley's final move was to southern Ohio where he lived near the Ohio River on what is now RT 52 ten miles west of Portsmouth, Ohio. He joined the Friendship Post 453 in Scioto Co., Ohio Grand Army of the Republic G. A. R. 4 Dec 1886. He was an officer and active member. Wiley died of pneumonia and was buried in Friendship Cemetery at Pond Run, Scioto, Ohio.