Kentucky: A History of the State, Perrin, Battle, Kniffin, 4th ed., 1887, Marion County. ANDERSON CORLEY was born on the 27th of August, 1815. His father, James Corley, was a native of Virginia, born in Culpeper County in 1775. He was married to a Miss Nancy Tyrrell and reared a family of eight sons and daughters, of which number Anderson Corley is the eighth. Anderson, William and America are the only survivors. James Corley worked at the trade of millwright in connection with that of bricklaying; late in life he engaged in farming, which he followed up to the time of his death. He was a son of William Corley, who was of Irish lineage and a native of Virginia. The later years of his life were passed in Wilson County, Tenn., and he died at the age of one hundred and five years. He was for many years a ruling elder in the Presbyterian CHurch, and was a veteran in the war of the Revolution. Anderson Corley, a native of Garrard County, was brought up amid the scenes and labors incident to farm life and received his early training in the common schools. At the age of fourteen began to learn the saddler's trade and continued in that business until 1861; after that time he was engaged in various kinds of businesses up to 1877, when he began farming, which he has continued up to the present time in conjunction with the sale of farm implements and machinery in the town of Lebanon, Marion County. He has been twice married; first in 1830 to Miss Elizabeth Aulby, daughter of Perry Aulby of Marion County. To this marriage were born thirteen children, three of whom lived to be grown, viz: Sallie, John and James. Elizabeth Aulby died in 1876, aged forty years. In 1877 Mr. Corley married Ellen Cunningham, widow of W. M. Bricken. To This marriage is born one daughter, Cassella, born in 1878. Mr. and Mrs. Corley are members of the Presbyterian Church. Politically he is a Democrat, and is a member of the board of trustees of Lebanon. Corley Tyrrell Aulby Cunningham Bricken = Garrard-KY Culpeper-VA Wilson-TN http://www.rootsweb.com/~kygenweb/kybiog/marion/corley.a.txt