Wiley Laughter:
Both Wiley and Ann Shelton are buried in Cooper's Gap Church Cemetery, Polk Co., NC. Probate records, deeds, property records, and information about his heirs, show that he did not leave a will when he died in 1846 in what is now Polk Co., NC. -- Polk County, NC was created in 1855 from portions of Rutherford and Henderson Counties.