How appropriate that this week’s theme is who is born
closest to your birthday. This week was
my birthday and I was certainly interested to see who I share my birthday
with. Family Tree Maker was able to tell
me that there were three people born on my birthday: -Lemeul Elliott, Franz (Frank) Huelster, and
Darlington Peter Riley. I have previously
blogged about Franz Huelster, so I needed to pick between the other two. I settled on Darlington Peter Riley, as he
was in my Hannah line. I knew nothing
about him except that he was the son of Nancy Hannah. I am
Nancy’s second great grand niece, which means that Darlington is a very distant
cousin.
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| Peter and Nancy Riley |
Darlington Peter Riley was born on September 8, 1846,
in Brown, Ohio. His father was David Riley
and his mother was Nancy Hannah, who had previously been married to Robert T.
McKee. On November 17, 1851, Darlington married Nancy
F Haney in Pendleton, Kentucky. They had seven children together.
Darlington, who went by the name of Peter, in 1870 was a
farmer living in Pendleton, Kentucky. In
the census from 1880 to 1920 he is described as a farmer in various small communities
south of Cincinnati. In 1930 he was
retired and living with his daughter, Nellie Riley Wainscott.
He died on February 1, 1936, in Walton, Kentucky, at the age
of 89, and was buried in Kenton, Kentucky.
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