Detail View: Wyoming State Archives WPA Federal Writers Project Files: WPA Bio 1026

Title: 
Wyoming WPA Biographical File regarding Elizabeth Wyley
Collection Name: 
WPA Collection
Collection Number: 
WPA Bio 1026
Item Description: 
Wyley, Elizabeth - Biographical information for Mrs. Elizabeth Catherine O'Brien Wiley [or Wyley]; Letter to Miss Sholty, State Library, Cheyenne, Wyo, from [no name - Mrs. Croco?], Douglas, Wyo., Jan. 16, 1937; "Captain John D. O'Brien, One of Converse County's Foremost Soldier-Pioneers" for "Stories of Pioneer Life"
Creator: 
Mrs. Hallie S. Croco
Location: 
Douglas (Wyo.)
Date: 
1938 November 3
Link to Finding Aid: 
https://rmoa.unm.edu/docviewer.php?docId=wy-arwpa.xml
Notes: 
born: Apr. 9, 1886, in a ranch home near Douglas (Wyo. Terr., now Converse Co., Wyo.)
Notes: 
Father Patrick Brophy, first priest in Wyoming (Jun., 1887 - first mass: Jun. 5, 1887, at Fort Fetterman)
Notes: 
Howard, Elmer J.(1st husband, born: 1886 in Converse Co., Wyo. - married: ? - died: Oct. 14, 1910, at Douglas, Wyo. - buried: Douglas Park Cemetery at Douglas, Wyo.)
Notes: 
Wyley, Frank Spencer (2nd husband, born: May 10, 1882, at Spencer, Wis. - married: Jan. 6, 1922 - died: May 3, 1929, at Denver, Colo. - buried: Douglas Park Cemetery at Douglas, Wyo.)
Notes: 
children: Bertha, Frank Spencer, Sam, Mont, George,Spencer and Ed
Notes: 
died: Nov. 2, 1973 (age: 87), at Douglas (Converse Co., Wyo.)
Notes: 
buried: Douglas Park Cemetery (Memorial ID: 79649014) at Douglas
Notes: 
Glenrock (Converse Co., Wyo.)
Notes: 
cook
Notes: 
seamstress
Notes: 
Order of Woodcraft, member and delegate to convention in Lander (Wyo.)
Notes: 
Catholic
Notes: 
Old North Grade School - Mary Cooper, teacher (Douglas, Wyo.)
Notes: 
housewife
Notes: 
first school. La Prele (La Prele, Wyo)
Notes: 
"White Caps", Johnson County Invaders
Rights: 
No Copyright - United States, https://rightsstatements.org/page/NoC-US/1.0/?language=en
Type: 
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