I have seen several online family trees for the family of Shelton WILLS and his wife Cordelia. None of them ever lists all the children I have found on the censuses. Does anyone know why Amanda WILLS is left out of these trees? She is my husband's great-great-grandmother. She is only found on the 1870 census for Morgan County KY and on the death certificate of Rose Emma Wills SHEPHERD. Rose Emma is listed on the 1880 census with her grandmother Cordelia WILLS in Montgomery County KY. When Rose Emma married James SHEPHERD, Nelson WILLS s/o Shelton and Cordelia signed the marriage bond. I do not know the circumstances surrounding Rose Emma's birth, i.e. whether her mother died in childbirth and left her with her grandmother, but her father Henry RC GREENWADE jr was a married man when she was conceived. He married Cleopatra SHOUSE and he moved to Missouri then California. His daughters are all listed as Rose Emma's sisters in her obit. Barb

Are you all beginning to think we need a special list just for descendants of Frederick William Wills? <grin> I'm only partly kidding. I can't believe how many people I'm in contact with that are researching this line and trying to break through the brick wall of his father William. I'm having a hard time keeping everyone straight. Traci (Smith) Wills On 12/29/05, Barbara I. Amburgey <b.amburgey@worldnet.att.net> wrote: > > I have seen several online family trees for the family of Shelton WILLS > and > his wife Cordelia. None of them ever lists all the children I have found > on > the censuses. Does anyone know why Amanda WILLS is left out of these > trees? > She is my husband's great-great-grandmother. She is only found on the 1870 > census for Morgan County KY and on the death certificate of Rose Emma > Wills >

Actually, there is already the Wills List at Rootsweb and I am already a subscriber. Marilyn