Genie Wiley
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<table><tr><td>http://a.abcnews.com/images/US/ht_wiley9_080515_ssv.jpg</td><td>The picture at the right is Pearl Martin with her grandson John. Original photo at ABCnews.<br><br>She is named as "Pearl Martin, John's paternal grandmother" [http://abcnews.go.com/US/popup?id=4870528&contentIndex=1&page=8&start=false here]. She is reported to have "run a bordello" (see [http://abcnews.go.com/US/popup?id=4870528&contentIndex=1&page=7&start=false here]). She took John Wiley when he was 4 to raise him herself because she thought her son Clark was unstable. John only lived with his grandmother was 2 years as she was killed in a hit-and-run accident by an "out-of-control pickup trunk" which "slammed into [her] and dragged her mangled body down the street" in California when "John Wiley was 6 years old". (see [http://abcnews.go.com/Health/story?id=4873347&page=1 ABCnews "Raised by a Tyrant..."]) John was born in 1952 so this would have happened in 1958/9.</td></tr></table> | <table><tr><td>http://a.abcnews.com/images/US/ht_wiley9_080515_ssv.jpg</td><td>The picture at the right is Pearl Martin with her grandson John. Original photo at ABCnews.<br><br>She is named as "Pearl Martin, John's paternal grandmother" [http://abcnews.go.com/US/popup?id=4870528&contentIndex=1&page=8&start=false here]. She is reported to have "run a bordello" (see [http://abcnews.go.com/US/popup?id=4870528&contentIndex=1&page=7&start=false here]). She took John Wiley when he was 4 to raise him herself because she thought her son Clark was unstable. John only lived with his grandmother was 2 years as she was killed in a hit-and-run accident by an "out-of-control pickup trunk" which "slammed into [her] and dragged her mangled body down the street" in California when "John Wiley was 6 years old". (see [http://abcnews.go.com/Health/story?id=4873347&page=1 ABCnews "Raised by a Tyrant..."]) John was born in 1952 so this would have happened in 1958/9.</td></tr></table> | ||
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+ | *[http://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?rank=0&f1=pearl&f2=&f0=martin&sx=&f4Day=&f4Month=&f4Year=&f6=&f5Day=&f5Month=&f5Year=1958&f7=&f10=&f9=&f3=&f8=&prox=1&f4=++&f5=++1958&db=cadeath1940&ti=0&ti.si=0&gl=&gss=rfs&gst=&so=3 California Death Index] | ||
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+ | ===Secondary Sources=== | ||
*[http://abcnews.go.com/Health/story?id=4873347&page=1 "Raised by a Tyrant, Suffering a Sibling's Abuse"], ABCnews, 19 May 2008, Susan Donaldson James. Thanks to site reader Jan H. Jørgensen for alerting me to this news story. | *[http://abcnews.go.com/Health/story?id=4873347&page=1 "Raised by a Tyrant, Suffering a Sibling's Abuse"], ABCnews, 19 May 2008, Susan Donaldson James. Thanks to site reader Jan H. Jørgensen for alerting me to this news story. | ||