Kentucky:  A History of the State, Battle, Perrin, & Kniffin, 3rd ed., 
1886. Allen County.

EDWIN C. MOTLEY was born May 23, 1835, in Allen County.  When a small 
boy he removed with his grandparents to Missouri, where he remained 
until he was seventeen years old; then returned to Allen County, where 
he has since resided.  His father, James Motley, was born April 16, 
1808, in North Carolina.  He was a son of Edwin Motley.  James Motley 
married, about 1832, Susan, daughter of Leonard and Elizabeth (Smith) 
Cagle, who was born December 30, 1811.  From their union sprang one 
child - Edwin C.  In 1858, 28th of March, Edwin C. married Elizabeth, 
daughter of Isaac and Patsey (Willoughby) Landers, of Allen County.  To 
them have been born Sarah T. (Oliver), James I., Martha S., Deborah, 
Erasmus L. (deceased) and William B.  Mr. Motley has, by constant 
industry, and economy, become the owner of 370 acres of land and in a 
fair state of cultivation.  He was a member of Company B, Fifty-second 
Kentucky Mounted Infantry, from September, 1863, to January, 1865.  Has 
been for over twelve years deputy clerk of Allen County, and in politics 
is a staunch Democrat.

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