William Buirley
William Buirley was born in Virginia in 1780, and was brought to Ohio at the close of the last century. They located near Columbus. Here he married Elizabeth Kiser about 1807. Some time after this date they removed to Butler County, Ohio, and from there to the present limts of Orange Township in the fall of 1818. Here he entered 160 acres of land, but had not the means to pay for the whole of it. In the year 1819 he rented land where the town of Sidney now stands, and planted it in corn. Mr. and Mrs. Buirley had a family of fourteen children, only eight of whom lived to grow up. HE did in 1876 at the age if niety-six years and four months. His wife died in 1878, at the age of ninety-four years.
From History of Shelby County, Ohio; R. Sutton & Co, Philadelphia PA, 1883