Tamar Ruth Darner ^{1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10}

  Death Notes:

Name: Tamer Ruth Wiley
Event Type: Burial
Event Date: 14 Feb 1917
Event Place: Cedar Rapids, Linn, Iowa, United States
Event Place (Original): Cedar Rapids, Ia
Gender: Female
Age: 82
Marital Status: Widowed
Occupation: Housework
Birth Date: 31 Mar 1834
Birthplace: Ohio
Death Date: 13 Feb 1917
Death Place: Davenport, Scott, Iowa
Funeral Home: X
Father's Name: Don't Know
Father's Birthplace: Don'T Know
Mother's Name: Don't Know
Reference ID: rn558p123
Source Reference: Volumes 6-7

Citing this Record
"Iowa Deaths and Burials, 1850-1990", database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XV7B-MYK : 16 January 2020), Don't Know in entry for Tamer Ruth Wiley, 1917.
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  Burial Notes:

Find a Grave Memorial ID: 261710984
Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/261710984/tamar_ruth-wiley: accessed 5 Sep 2026), memorial page for Tamar Ruth Darner Wiley (26 Mar 1834\'9613 Feb 1917), Find a Grave Memorial ID 261710984, citing Murdoch-Linwood Cemetery, Cedar Rapids, Linn County, Iowa, USA; Maintained by CJeanealogy (contributor 47474846).
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  Noted events in her life were:

1. 1850 US Census, 20 July 1850, Perry Township, Muskingum, Ohio, United States. ⁵ 1850 US Census
Page 362B-363A, Family 106
Perry Township, Muskingum, Ohio
Tamar Darner..16..OH

(Living with parents.)

2. 1860 US Census, 7 June 1860, Putnam, Muskingum, Ohio, United States. ⁶ 1860 US Census
Page 32, Dwelling 243, Family 236
Putnam, Muskingum, Ohio
Tamer R. Wiley..25..OH

(Living with husband and 3 sons.)

3. 1870 US Census, 9 July 1870, Belle Plaine, Benton, Iowa, United States. ⁷ 1870 US Census
Page 26, Family 225
Belle Plaine, Benton, Iowa
Tamar R. Wiley..34..OH..Keeping House

(Living with husband and 7 children.)

NOTE - If her birth date was 31 Mar 1834, then her age should have been 36 instead of 34.

4. 1880 US Census, 1 June 1880, Belle Plaine, Benton, Iowa, United States. ² 1880 US Census
Page 50B, District 31, Roll 0327, Dwelling 443, Family 446
Belle Plaine, Benton, Iowa
Tamer Wiley..Wife..46..OH..Keeping House

(Living with husband and 8 children.)

5. 1885 Iowa State Census, January 1885, Cedar Rapids, Linn, Iowa, United States. ³ 1885 Iowa State Census
Page 92, Line 3, Family 1
Cedar Rapids, Linn, Iowa
91 2nd Street
Tamer R. Wiley..50..OH

(Living with husband and 9 children.)

6. 1895 Iowa State Census, January 1895, Cedar Rapids, Linn, Iowa, United States. ⁴ 1895 Iowa State Census
Page 381, Family 176
Cedar Rapids, Linn, Iowa
Tama R. Wiley..60..Ohio..Keeping House

(Living with husband and 2 children.)

7. 1900 US Census, 15 June 1900, Kansas City, Wyandotte, Kansas, United States. ⁸ 1900 US Census
Sheet 18B, District 162, Family 415
Kansas City, Wyandotte, Kansas
828 Dixon Street; house rented
Ruth Wily..Mother..Mar 1835..65..Ohio..9/8

(Living with husband at home of widowed son, John.)

NOTE - Her birth year is believed to be 1834 instead of 1835.

8. 1910 US Census, 22 April 1910, Cedar Rapids, Linn, Iowa, United States. ⁹ 1910 US Census
Sheet 7B, District 107, Dwelling 166, Family 182
Cedar Rapids, Linn, Iowa
912 6th Street; Home rented
Tamer R. Wiley..Mother..75..OH..Widowed

(Arthur was widowed, living with 3 children, and his widowed mother.)

9. Obituary: Cedar Rapids Republican, 14 February 1917, Cedar Rapids, Linn, Iowa, United States. ¹¹ Mrs. T. R. Wiley died Tuesday morning in Davenport at the age of 88. She was born in Zanesville, Ohio, March 26, 1834. She was married to John R. Wiley in 1853. Nine children were born to them, of whom three have died. Mr. Wiley passed away several years ago.

Mrs. Wiley is survived by her children, Mrs. H. D. Mohr of Davenport at whose home she died; Mrs. Belle Shafer, Mrs. Emma Wilson and Arthur Wiley of Cedar Rapids, and James A. of California, also sixteen grandchildren and three great-grandchildren.

She was a resident of Cedar Rapids for thirty six years having moved here in 1861. She had been in failing health for a number of years. Last fall she went to visit her daughter in Davenport expecting to return in the spring. She was a lifelong member of the Baptist church.

The funeral will be held Tuesday afternoon at 2:30 at Wymer's chapel, Rev. Wilbur E. Clapp officiating. Interment will be in Linwood cemetery.

(Source: Cedar Rapids Republican, p.13, Wednesday Feb 14, 1917)
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Tamar married John J. Wiley on 24 August 1854 in Muskingum, Ohio, United States.^{1 2 3 4} (John J. Wiley was born in January 1831 in Maryland, United States,^{2 3 6 7 8 12} died on 2 April 1901 in Kansas City, Wyandotte, Kansas, United States ¹² and was buried in April 1901 in Murdoch-Linwood Cemetery, Cedar Rapids, Linn, Iowa, United States ¹².)

  Noted events in their marriage were:

1. 1860 US Census, 7 June 1860, Putnam, Muskingum, Ohio, United States. ⁶ 1860 US Census
Page 32, Dwelling 243, Family 236
Putnam, Muskingum, Ohio
John J. Wiley..29..MD..Freight ???
Tamer R. Wiley..25..OH
William O. Wiley..4..OH
James A. Wiley..2..OH
No Name Wiley..0..OH (later named John A. Wiley)

2. 1870 US Census, 9 July 1870, Belle Plaine, Benton, Iowa, United States. ⁷ 1870 US Census
Page 26, Family 225
Belle Plaine, Benton, Iowa
John J. Wiley..38..MD..RR Laborer
Tamar R. Wiley..34..OH..Keeping House
William O. Wiley..15..OH
James A. Wiley..13..OH
John A. Wiley..10..OH
Charles H. Wiley..8..OH
George W. Wiley..6..IN
Alice B. Wiley..3..IN
Rosa M. Wiley..10m..IA..Aug

3. 1880 US Census, 1 June 1880, Belle Plaine, Benton, Iowa, United States. ² 1880 US Census
Page 50B, District 31, Roll 0327, Dwelling 443, Family 446
Belle Plaine, Benton, Iowa
John Wiley..Self..49..MD..R.R. Employee
Tamer Wiley..Wife..46..OH..Keeping House
Albert Wiley..Son..22..OH..Brakeman
John Wiley..Son..20..OH..Brakeman
Charles Wiley..Son..17..OH..Foundryman
George Wiley..Son..15..IN..Scholar
Belle Wiley..Daughter..13..IN..Scholar
May Wiley..Daughter..10..IA..Scholar
Emma Wiley..Daughter..9..IA
Arthur Wiley..Son..6..IA

4. 1885 Iowa State Census, January 1885, Cedar Rapids, Linn, Iowa, United States. ³ 1885 Iowa State Census
Page 92, Line 3, Family 1
Cedar Rapids, Linn, Iowa
91 2nd Street
John J. Wiley..54..MD..RR Switchman
Tamer R. Wiley..50..OH
Wm O. Wiley..29..OH..RR Brakeman
James A. Wiley..27..OH..RR Brakeman
John A. Wiley..24..OH..RR Brakeman
Chas Wiley..22..OH..RR Brakeman
George Wiley..20..IN..RR Brakeman
Belle Wiley..17..IN
May Wiley..15..IA
Emma Wiley..13..IA
Arthur Wiley..10..IA

5. 1895 Iowa State Census, January 1895, Cedar Rapids, Linn, Iowa, United States. ⁴ 1895 Iowa State Census
Page 381, Family 176
Cedar Rapids, Linn, Iowa
J. J. Wiley..64..Maryland..RR ???
Tama R. Wiley..60..Ohio..Keeping House
Emma Wiley..23..Benton County, Iowa..???
Arthur Morris Wiley..20..Benton County, Iowa..Cooper

  Marriage Notes:

They moved to Indiana around 1863 then to Belle Plaine, Benton County, Iowa around 1869. This is from Karen Forbes as told to her by Nancy Rice Kiddoo, her data from 1880 US Census records from Benton County, Iowa and from probate records for Andrew Darner. Tamar's name is listed as Tamer Ruth Wyly in the will and Tamer Wylie in a suit brought by John Soragg in 1887 against the heirs of Andrew Darner. Nancy does not show where she found the marriage records for Tamer although she does state that all marriages for the children of Andrew and Hannah were found in the Muskingum County Courthouse in Zanesville, Ohio.

(per Dannell Hopkins, http://www.geocities.com/danni_7493 2/)
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There is a great deal of confusion about two of their children and the grandchildren from these two. James Albert Wiley, born in 1857, and John Alonzo Wiley, born in 1860 are often confused with one another and some researchers believe that they might be the same person. But the 1870 and 1880 US Census records clearly show that they were two different persons.

James A. Wiley, who sometimes went by his middle name of Albert, was married to Mary R. Ortscheid in 1881 at Belle Plaine, Iowa. There are no birth records of any of his supposed children which would definitively show him as the father or Mary as the mother so the parentage of at least 4 children come into question. These include Frank Wiley, born 1883, Orin Henry Wiley, also born 1883, May Wiley, born 1884, and John J. Wiley, born 1890.

The mystery starts immediately after the 1881 marriage with the 1885 Iowa State Census in which James Albert Wiley is shown as still living at home with his parents. He and all his siblings are noted as still single and not married. Does this mean the marriage to Mary R. Ortscheid might have been to a different James Albert Wiley? Perhaps.

However, in the 1900 US Census, the then married Mary Wiley is found living with her brother-in-law, Edgar Howland in Anamosa, Jones County, Iowa. But living with her is Orin Wiley who was designated as a nephew to Edgar Howland which makes him a son to Mary. In addition, Mary was noted as married, having given birth to 2 children but only 1 survived at the time. There is no mention about her husband, James Albert Wiley, and he is not found elsewhere in the 1900 US Census.

What this means is that James and Mary could not be the parents to all three of the other grandchildren, Frank, May, and John J. Wiley. But since she gave birth to a total of 2, perhaps one of these names was her child also and must have died before 1900 (remember, she indicated on the 1900 US Census that she had 2 children and only 1 survived).

1900 Census
Kansas City, Kansas
John A Wily (John Alonzo Wiley)..Head..40..May 1860..Ohio..Widowed..RR Switchman
May Wily..Daughter..14..Nov 1885..Missouri
John J Wily..Son..10..Mar 1890..Kansas
John J Wily..Father..69..Jan 1831..Maryland..Day Laborer
Ruth Wily (Tamar Ruth Darner)..Mother..65..Mar 1835..Ohio..9/8