This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Willis Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/XeB.2ACE/3385 Message Board Post: I have a copy of the Sept 23, 1891 Hawkins County Circuit Court Minutes for James Willis vs. Elizabeth Willis. James Willis was seeking a divorce from Elizabeth. Does anyone know who these people are? Who are their parents? Did they have any children? I am trying to determine if this is my g-g grandfather who married Birdie Pearson in Hawkins County on 7/2/1889 and was supposedly in the Spanish American War. I have their marriage bond and she used the name Birdie. I believe Birdie's parents are Christopher Columbus and Eliza Jane Pearson. The 1870 census lists one of their children as Eliza S age 9/12 mo. (b. 1869) however the 1880 census does not list an Eliza but does list Birdie as 8 years old (b. 1872). Are they the same person?