Second of ten children born to William Henry Wiley and Martha Tennessee King. Married Alice Omenia Dejournette, at Pontotoc, Mississippi, 16 June 1897; father to seven, grandfather to ten.
Educated at the Memphis Medical College, Dr. Wiley, often for barter, served poor, black, and indigenous communities in rural Mississippi, Tennessee, Arkansas, and Oklahoma Territory. He crafted his own medicines, later engaging his grandchildren in the labeling of bottles.
A long-time resident of the Hollywood neighborhood of Memphis, Dr. Wiley was later employed by the Shelby County Health Department and further served his community with involvement in the local school board and municipal politics.
Affectionately known to his descendants as "Papa".
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STROKE FATAL TO DR. WILEY, 91.
Once Practiced in Indian Territory.
Dr. James Madison Wiley, who practiced medicine in the Indian Territory before Oklahoma became a state and who was a horse-and-buggy doctor in the Mississippi Delta before moving to Memphis, died yesterday after a stroke. He was 91. Dr. Wiley was born in Oxford, Miss., and graduated from Oxford High School and Memphis Medical School. He practiced at a sanatorium at that was then known as Raleigh Springs (now Raleigh) north of Memphis and also in the Hollywood area before it became a part of Memphis. He was with the Shelby County Health Department several years before retiring 20 years ago.
Dr. Wiley was the first president of the Hollywood Civic Club. He was a member of D.A. Ellis Bible class at McLean Baptist Church and former of the Woodmen of the World. He lived at 2435 Hubbard.
He and his wife, the former Alice DeJournette, had been married 65 years. He also leaves his son, J. Brady Wiley of Memphis; four daughters, Miss Mildred Wiley and Mrs. Grace Smithwick of Memphis and Mrs. Virginia Sutherland and Mrs. D.L, Moody of Illinois, and two sisters, Mrs. Frank Craig and Mrs. Mattie Black of New Albany, Miss.
Services at 3:30 p.m. today at Spencer-Sturla Funeral Home. Burial in Memorial Park.
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Educated at the Memphis Medical College, Dr. Wiley, often for barter, served poor, black, and indigenous communities in rural Mississippi, Tennessee, Arkansas, and Oklahoma Territory. He crafted his own medicines, later engaging his grandchildren in the labeling of bottles.
A long-time resident of the Hollywood neighborhood of Memphis, Dr. Wiley was later employed by the Shelby County Health Department and further served his community with involvement in the local school board and municipal politics.
Affectionately known to his descendants as "Papa".
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STROKE FATAL TO DR. WILEY, 91.
Once Practiced in Indian Territory.
Dr. James Madison Wiley, who practiced medicine in the Indian Territory before Oklahoma became a state and who was a horse-and-buggy doctor in the Mississippi Delta before moving to Memphis, died yesterday after a stroke. He was 91. Dr. Wiley was born in Oxford, Miss., and graduated from Oxford High School and Memphis Medical School. He practiced at a sanatorium at that was then known as Raleigh Springs (now Raleigh) north of Memphis and also in the Hollywood area before it became a part of Memphis. He was with the Shelby County Health Department several years before retiring 20 years ago.
Dr. Wiley was the first president of the Hollywood Civic Club. He was a member of D.A. Ellis Bible class at McLean Baptist Church and former of the Woodmen of the World. He lived at 2435 Hubbard.
He and his wife, the former Alice DeJournette, had been married 65 years. He also leaves his son, J. Brady Wiley of Memphis; four daughters, Miss Mildred Wiley and Mrs. Grace Smithwick of Memphis and Mrs. Virginia Sutherland and Mrs. D.L, Moody of Illinois, and two sisters, Mrs. Frank Craig and Mrs. Mattie Black of New Albany, Miss.
Services at 3:30 p.m. today at Spencer-Sturla Funeral Home. Burial in Memorial Park.
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Second of ten children born to William Henry Wiley and Martha Tennessee King. Married Alice Omenia Dejournette, at Pontotoc, Mississippi, 16 June 1897; father to seven, grandfather to ten.
Educated at the Memphis Medical College, Dr. Wiley, often for barter, served poor, black, and indigenous communities in rural Mississippi, Tennessee, Arkansas, and Oklahoma Territory. He crafted his own medicines, later engaging his grandchildren in the labeling of bottles.
A long-time resident of the Hollywood neighborhood of Memphis, Dr. Wiley was later employed by the Shelby County Health Department and further served his community with involvement in the local school board and municipal politics.
Affectionately known to his descendants as "Papa".
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STROKE FATAL TO DR. WILEY, 91.
Once Practiced in Indian Territory.
Dr. James Madison Wiley, who practiced medicine in the Indian Territory before Oklahoma became a state and who was a horse-and-buggy doctor in the Mississippi Delta before moving to Memphis, died yesterday after a stroke. He was 91. Dr. Wiley was born in Oxford, Miss., and graduated from Oxford High School and Memphis Medical School. He practiced at a sanatorium at that was then known as Raleigh Springs (now Raleigh) north of Memphis and also in the Hollywood area before it became a part of Memphis. He was with the Shelby County Health Department several years before retiring 20 years ago.
Dr. Wiley was the first president of the Hollywood Civic Club. He was a member of D.A. Ellis Bible class at McLean Baptist Church and former of the Woodmen of the World. He lived at 2435 Hubbard.
He and his wife, the former Alice DeJournette, had been married 65 years. He also leaves his son, J. Brady Wiley of Memphis; four daughters, Miss Mildred Wiley and Mrs. Grace Smithwick of Memphis and Mrs. Virginia Sutherland and Mrs. D.L, Moody of Illinois, and two sisters, Mrs. Frank Craig and Mrs. Mattie Black of New Albany, Miss.
Services at 3:30 p.m. today at Spencer-Sturla Funeral Home. Burial in Memorial Park.
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Educated at the Memphis Medical College, Dr. Wiley, often for barter, served poor, black, and indigenous communities in rural Mississippi, Tennessee, Arkansas, and Oklahoma Territory. He crafted his own medicines, later engaging his grandchildren in the labeling of bottles.
A long-time resident of the Hollywood neighborhood of Memphis, Dr. Wiley was later employed by the Shelby County Health Department and further served his community with involvement in the local school board and municipal politics.
Affectionately known to his descendants as "Papa".
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STROKE FATAL TO DR. WILEY, 91.
Once Practiced in Indian Territory.
Dr. James Madison Wiley, who practiced medicine in the Indian Territory before Oklahoma became a state and who was a horse-and-buggy doctor in the Mississippi Delta before moving to Memphis, died yesterday after a stroke. He was 91. Dr. Wiley was born in Oxford, Miss., and graduated from Oxford High School and Memphis Medical School. He practiced at a sanatorium at that was then known as Raleigh Springs (now Raleigh) north of Memphis and also in the Hollywood area before it became a part of Memphis. He was with the Shelby County Health Department several years before retiring 20 years ago.
Dr. Wiley was the first president of the Hollywood Civic Club. He was a member of D.A. Ellis Bible class at McLean Baptist Church and former of the Woodmen of the World. He lived at 2435 Hubbard.
He and his wife, the former Alice DeJournette, had been married 65 years. He also leaves his son, J. Brady Wiley of Memphis; four daughters, Miss Mildred Wiley and Mrs. Grace Smithwick of Memphis and Mrs. Virginia Sutherland and Mrs. D.L, Moody of Illinois, and two sisters, Mrs. Frank Craig and Mrs. Mattie Black of New Albany, Miss.
Services at 3:30 p.m. today at Spencer-Sturla Funeral Home. Burial in Memorial Park.
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