COSBY Wiley

1800 - UNKNOWN

• Name	COSBY Wiley
  Born	1800	NC
  Gender	Male
  Died	UNKNOWN
  Person ID	I1741	Combo
  Last Modified	22 Aug 2009

  
  

  Father	COZBY James, Sr.,   b. Abt 1775, NC ,   d. Bef 16 Jun 1838, Jefferson County, AL  (Age ~ 63 years)
  Mother	MOORE Elizabeth,   b. Abt 1779, SC ,   d. Abt 1853  (Age ~ 74 years)
  Married	1800	Orange, NC
  Family ID	F0262	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Notes

  Wiley, who was born about 1794 in North Carolina. He lived in Buncombe County, North Carolina in 1820 and in 1830. As best as can be ascertained from census records and the ages and birthplaces of his children, he moved to Jefferson County, Alabama between 1830 and 1833 some ten years after his parents made the same move. He lived in Jefferson County in 1840. Between December, 1843 and 1845 he moved his family (except for Nancy who married Robert Anderson Hicks April 19, 1840) to Washington County, Arkansas. Wiley appears to have been the first of several Cosbys to move from Alabama to Arkansas. In April, 1849, according to Goodspeed's History of Arkansas (1889), Wiley was one of the Washington County citizens who became infected with the gold fever. Listed next to his name in the roster of the gold company which went west on April 24, 1849 was George Lewis. In the 1850 U.S. Census taken the following year, Wiley's wife and his children were listed alone. The research of Robert F. Cozby of Austin, Texas, a descendant of Wiley's brother Abner, indicates the following concerning Wiley: (Wiley) died about 1849-50, perhaps in Nevada, where he traveled with George Washington Lewis in search of gold, during the gold rush. Evidently after Wiley's death, Wiley's wife Mary married George W. Lewis (who R.F. Cozby reports as Wiley's partner) on January 11, 1852 in Washington County, Arkansas. Mary's and Wiley's daughter Mary married her stepbrother Walter Lewis on December 3, 1854. Both Marys are buried in the White House Cemetery (http://bellsouthpwp.net/k/o/kosims/whcemt.htm) in Washington County Arkansas. The older Mary's marker states Mary, wife of Wiley Cosby even-though her married name was Lewis. This family apparently was the beginning of the Washington County, Arkansas Cosby Family.