Memorials › James Davis Wylie
1806 – 31 Oct 1892
| Birth | 1806 |
| Death | 31 Oct 1892 |
| Cemetery | Wylie Cemetery Louisville , Winston County , Mississippi , USA |
| Added by | Mary Joy on 17 Jun 2009 |
| FaG | https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/38282011 |
James Davis Wylie was the son of George Wylie and Jeanette Hamilton Wylie. He married Nancy Shaw on 22 December 1840 in Jefferson County, AL They moved to Winston County before 1843 and had four daughters and eight sons in Alabama and Mississippi. Children were: Martha Jane Wylie Taylor, b.Aug 1841; William P. "Will" Wylie, b. 1842, d. Sep 1861, during the Battle of Ball's Bluff near Leesburg, VA, during the Civil War; George A.F. Wylie, b. 29 June 1845, d. 16 Feb 1921; Elizabeth Angeline "Eliza" Wylie Hall, b. 13 Feb 1847; Sarah Ann Wylie Miller, b. 1 Dec 1848; Harriet Wylie Miller, b. 27 Jan 1851, d. 1939; James Nathan Wylie, b. 3 Jan 1853; Samuel Houghston "Hugh" Wylie, b. 14 Oct 1855; Jonathan W.P. "Patty" Wylie, b. 23 Dec 1856; Henry Thomas "Tom" Wylie, b. 8 Jan 1860; Francis Marion "Frank" Wylie, b. 28 July 1861, d. Aug. 1934; Thomas P.W. Wylie, b. 1863. After the death of Nancy Shaw Wylie, James Davis married second Lucy Costiloe Davis on 25 Jan 1882 in Winston County. They had one son, Addison Youngblood Wylie b. 12 May 1883, d.13 Oct,1955. (Interestingly, one of James' younger sons, Francis Marion, married Emma Jane Davis, daughter of Lucy Costiloe Davis, making Addison half-brother to the Wylie and the Davis children.)
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