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WILEY OLIVER
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Wiley moved from Twiggs Co., Ga in 1833 to Barbour
Co., Al.
Among his children were:
1. William Oliver, b. Twiggs county, Ga., 24th February, 1829;
d. at Wesson, Miss., July,
1891; married, first (12th October, 1847), Mary Milner Callaway (d. January 10, 1888),
and settled in Eufaula, Ala.; moved to Minden, La., 1853, and ten years after to Trenton,
La., and formed partnership with Mr. Drake in merchandising,
Captain in Thirty-first Louisiana Regiment in C. S. A., in quartermaster's department; engaged in
cotton business in 1866, in New Orleans, with John T. Hardie. They bought the Wesson (Miss.)
Manufacturing Company in 1870, and he moved to Wesson, and took charge of the
mills as secretary and treasurer. The plant was then estimated at $100,000; Mills
burned in 1873, when Col. Ed. Richardson, the Commercial king of Mississippi, bought
the stock, and established a new company, with $344,000 stock and Captain Oliver general
manager, and the stock increased, by 1891, to $2,000,000. His daughter, Mary
Ella, married John P. Richardson, son of Colonel Richardson, who, after his father's
death, became president of the company.
Rilla E. Oliver (eldest daughter) married Dr. R. W. Rea.
John M, Oliver, the only son, is a merchant of Wesson.
Col. Wm. Oliver married (secondly) a niece of his wife: Melissa D. Callaway. He joined
Dr. Palmer's church (Presbyterian), in New Orleans, in 1867.
2. A. B. Oliver, of Osyka, Miss.
3. (???) Oliver. Has a son, Wiley E. Oliver, merchant, Wesson, Miss. (from whom these
notes are obtained).
MCDONALD OLIVER, of Twiggs county, Ga., was twice married. By last wife,
who was Lurena Holmes, had
1. Augustus L. Oliver m. (???). Had eight children.
2. Nancy A. Oliver m. George W. Roberts. Nine children, among them: Clarence P.
Roberts, of Eufaula, Ala.
3. McDonald Oliver m. Paine Ricks. Issue: 1. McDonald, d. s. p. 2. Lamar Oliver,
of Houston, Texas. Mrs. Oliver m. (II) Captain Hart, and her daughter, Lila Hart,
m. Washington Toney Flournoy.
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