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Author: TomACaulley
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There has been a question for over 200 years, WHO WAS THE SALLY FINLEY NAMED IN CANIEL
CORLEY'S WILL?
This may be as close to "proof" as we will ever come.
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A genealogy of Corleys: begginning with Caniel Corley of Bedford County, Virginia,
tracing all lineal descendants of his son, Jonathan Cheatem Corley, by Corley, Dewitt C.;
Decatur, IL: unknown publisher, 1927, 229 pgs.
page 7
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"The compiler has a letter from Silas Coleman, of Amhurst, Virginia, of
November 24, 1919, in which he relates to me that his grandmother's maiden name was
Lucy Corley, and that he had often heard his father relate that she came from Bedford
County, Virginia, and that she was a daughter of Caniel Corley, that he had frequently
heard his father state that his grandmother, Lucy Corley, was a sister of Sallathiel,
Beverly, Cheatham, William, and Pheba Corley and Sallie Finley. He also states that said
Lucy Corley married a Mr. Clark, and that her daughter, Mildred, married Barry Coleman,
and he begat a son, Jessie Coleman, who was the father of Silas Coleman, of
Amhurst."
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With that in mind, I think Sally was a daughter of Caniel's who had either been
widowed or abandoned by her husband, ????? Finley.
Tom Caulley
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