This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/XeB.2ACE/3439.2 Message Board Post: 1870 Hawkins County, Tennessee Census District# 2, Lee Valley, 11 July, 1870 #44 AGE SEX BORN Collins, J.W. 34 M Va " , Sarena B. 48 F SC Wolfe, Joseph 21 M Willis, Julia 22 F Willis, Mary E. 4 F Willis, James 2 M Snider, Mary J. 24 F Julia (Wolfe) Willis had a brother, John J. Wolfe, an occupier, during the Civil War, of Rogersville, Tennessee. He was part of a Union regiment. Julia had three children after I. Willis' death, after Mary E. and James Willis. They went by the name "WILLIS", too. There was two girls and a boy. Julia later moved to Fort Smith, Arkansas. Her nickname by many was "Missy". Julia left Hancock County, Tennesee after 1910. I. Willis' son, James Willis, later, supposedly killed Ned Trent (the one given credit for killing I. Willis). As you can see above, Julia's mother has remarried to J.W. Collins. I'm not sure if she divorced George Wolfe or if he in fact died. ************************************** Sweetwater Forerunner, (Monroe Co. TN) August 20, 1868 "On Tuesday last, says the Press & Herald, of the 13th instant, two Negro men were shot and killed in Hawkins County, East Tennessee, by Mr. I. Willis, who killed the wretch, Sizemore, some twelve months since. It appears that these Negroes went to the house of Mr. Willis, during his absence, and demanded something to eat of his mother and sisters. Their demand was refused, when they made their way in, against the protest of the ladies, and proceeded to help themselves to what they wanted. When Willis came they were sitting at the table enjoying themselves, having driven away the ladies by certain characteristic and brutally offensive remarks. A few words sufficed to explain the situation, when he passed into another apartment, procured a double-barreled shot gun, and returned to the dining room where the Negroes were feasting. One started up, and being shot by Willis, fell dead across the table; the other ran out, but was shot and killed, when barely past the threshold."