This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: O'Reily/Reily: Ireland, So. Carolina, Mississippi, Louisiana Classification: Biography Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/XeB.2ACI/1553 Message Board Post: O'Reily/Reily: Ireland, So. Carolina, Mississippi, Louisiana Author: Orville Wainwright Reily Date: 15 Feb 2005 10:41 PM GMT Surnames: O'Reily/Reily: South Carolina-Georgia-Alabama-Mississippi-Louisiana Classification: Biography Post Reply | Mark Unread Report Abuse Print Message Robert O'Reily born in Ireland about 1735-40. He was in South Carolina by 1764-64. O'Reily was now Reily. Robert fought in the Amer. Rev. and died in South Carolina about 1784. He married Ann <Unknown>. They had at least one child--- Samuel Reily, Sr. Samuel Reily, Sr. was born Nov. 11, 1767 in South Carolina. He married Martha N. McDonald. They had at least 12 children. They moved to Wilkinson County, Mississippi Terrotory about 1800. Samuel died May 12, 1822. Martha N. McDonald was born Sept. 20, 1770 and she died Dec. 04, 1850. They are both buried in the Reily-LoBrano-Simmons Cemetery near Centerville, Mississippi. One of their sons was John Young Reily, born Oct. 19, 1798 in South Carolina. Died Apr. 18, 1840. He married Mary McNeely Higginbotham. She was born Jan. 31, 1805 and died Feb. 02, 1839. Both of them are most likely buried in the East Cemetery between Clinton and Wilson, Louisiana. There is a head stone there for Mary Reily. This is in East Feliciana Parish, Louisiana. In an old family letter it says John Young went into North Mississippi. So he may have died and was buried somewhere else. They had at least 6 children. One being Samuel Warburton Reily, Sr. Samuel Warburton Reily, Sr. was born June 23, 1828 and died April 04, 1883 in Bastrop, Morehouse Parish, Louisiana. He is buried, with his second wife, in Bastrop. He first married Mary Charlotte Boatner. She was born March 23, 1828 and died June 11, 1861. She is buried in a single grave out from Collinston, Morehouse Parish, Louisiana. There were 5 children by his first marrige--- one being John Boatner Reily, Sr. (There were 4 children by his second marriage). John Boatner Reily, Sr. was born Aug. 13, 1851 and died Nov. 02, 1917. He married Bettie Ward. she was born Jun. 02, 1856 and died Dec. 24, 1938. They are both buried in The Carter Cemetery between Collinston and Bastrop, Morehouse Parish, Louisiana. They had 12 children. One being Orville Wainwright Reily, Sr. Orville Wainwright (Big Wig) Reily, Sr. was born in Collinston, Louisiana Nov. 26, 1900 and died May 20 1970, in Bastrop, Louisiana. He married Dot <No middle name> Higginbotham. She was born April 07, 1902 and died Sept. 17, 1963. they are both buried in Christ Church Cemetery in Bastrop, Louisiana. They had 3 children. One being my Father Orville Wainwright Reily, Jr. Orville Wainwright Reily, Jr. was born June 17, 1924 in Shreveport, Caddo Parish, Louisiana and died Sept. 13, 1999 in Cleveland, Bolivar County, Mississippi. He is buried in Cleveland. He married Gloria Jo Kennedy. She was born April 29, 1930 in Bastrop, Louisiana. They had 2 children--- Orville Wainwright Reily, III and Ross Wade Reily. Orville Wainwright Reily, III was born Dec. 03, 1947 in Bastrop, Louisiana. He married Lorna Anne Rogers. She was born Feb. 19, 1950 in Starkville, Mississippi. We had 3 children. We divorced in 2000. Our three children are: David Wain Reily born Feb. 27, 1977 in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. He has a son Landon Cade Reily, born July 03, 1998. Lorna Elizabeth Reily born March 24, 1979 in Cleveland, Mississippi. She has a son Hayden Michael Anderson born Jan 17, 2004. Sarah Catherine Reily born Nov. 29 1990 in Columbus, Mississippi.