Selden WILLEY

  General Notes:

Selden WILLEY, son of Hubbard and Lucy (MEAD) WILLEY, was born in Middlesex, Vt., August 14, 1825, and is one of thirteen children, all of whom lived to mature age. He spent the years of his minority, like other farmers' boys, in attendance at the common school and at work on the farm. At the age of seventeen years he had the misfortune to fall upon a pitchfork. The tines penetrated his side, and from this injury he has never fully recovered. When he was thirty-five years of age he married M. Sophia WIGGINS, of Middlesex, daughter of Rufus and Rosella (LEWIS) WIGGINS. He was a mason about sixteen years of his early life, which he gave up in consequence of his infirmity, and since then he has been a farmer, and fairly successful. Mr. WILLEY is highly respected, and is a worthy citizen of Worcester.

Selden married Sophia WIGGINS, daughter of Rufus WIGGINS and Rosella LEWIS. (Sophia WIGGINS was born in 1834 and died on an unknown date.)