Wiley and Sarah Essley Welch of Mercer County, Ill
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Wiley Edward and Sarah Elvira Essley Welch
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Wiley Edward Welch was the eighth child and fifth son of Harvey & Rachel Woodward Welch of North Carolina, Indiana, and Mercer County, Illinois. He was grandson of John & Rachel Woodward of North Carolina and Tennessee and great grandson of Abraham & Hannah Thornbrough Woodward, the subjects of this web site. He was also grandson of Joshua & Fanny Lester Welch of Virginia and North Carolina.

Sarah(Sadie) Elvira Essley was the ninth child and sixth daughter of Elisha & Avarilla Pratt Essley of Kentucky, Mercer County, Illinois, and Harvey County, Kansas.



  Wiley Edward Welch
born 1/9/1849 Wayne Co, Indiana
died 4/10/1924 Wichita, Kansas
burial Attica Cemetery, Attica, Ks
Sarah Elvira Essley
born 10/30/1855 Mercer Co, Ill
died 7/24/1918 Attica, Kansas
burial Attica Cemetery


  Photos of Wiley and Sarah Essley Welch

Photo of Tombstone in Attica Cemetery


  Married: 5/27/1874 Aledo, Mercer County, Ill

Children:
Ethbert Destry Welch born 6/17/1875 New Boston, Mercer Co, Ill; married Lillie Skidmore Perry
Lura May Welch born 8/19/1876 New Boston, Mercer County, Ill; married Richard Austin Squires
Rafael Stanzo Welch born 10/12/1877 New Boston, Mercer County, Ill; married Nellie Agnes Potter
Leon Essley Welch born 2/12/1879 Newton, Harvey County, Kan; married Tena Malissa Squire
Ivy Avarilla Welch born 6/18/1880 Newton, Harvey County, Kan; married Herbert Peter Ryan
Wilbur Galin (Gale) Welch born 12/1/1885 Newton, Harvey County, Kan; married Gussie Pearl Kennedy
Raymond Welch born 12/8/1895 & died 12/9/1895 Neosha Rapids, Lyon County, Kan
Bessie Welch born 12/4/1896 Attica, Harper County, Kan; married Cecil McKenny

This page is under construction - in the meantime there are several experts available on both Essley and Pratt families. (Welch is another story!) A Pratt Web page has been added to our Mercer County, Illinois site. There is a fine collection of photographs on file in the Aledo Museum in Mercer County, Illinois, and Nadine Holder has copies of the photos. They were furnished by a descendant of Leon Essley Welch and were found in Sarah Elvira Essley Welch's scrapbook where the above dates were recorded.

Sarah Elvira Essley Welch's scrapbook also contained a photograph of a girlhood friend in Mercer County, Illinois, who turned out to be a relative of site coordinator Nadine Holder.



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