Is this the John Wills who had a daughter Sarah Wills who married Merriweather Lewis Camden? >From: [email protected] >Reply-To: [email protected] >To: [email protected] >Subject: [VAAMHERS] John E. Wills >Date: Sat, 23 Sep 2006 11:50:42 EDT > > >This e-mail is in response to [email protected]_ >(mailto:[email protected]) desiring info on John E. Wills who was in >the 51st VA Infantry. > I am a member of the McElroy family in Rockbridge and we hold a >reunion >each year. A branch of our family desends as well from the John E. Wills >family. According to information that was submitted by this family (Fred >Lewis >and Betty Mitchell Crist Wills) for our August McElroy family newsletter, >John was born on May 10, 1826 in Albemarle County, VA. He was the son of >Elias >J. and Emily Burbank Wills who were married on August 1, 1825. > John married Matilda A. Norvell, the daughter of Braxton and Mildred >Norvell, on July 31, 1856 in Amherst County, VA. > John enlisted in the Confederate Army at Elon, VA on June 29, 1861. >He >was a corporal in the 51st VA Infantry, Company G. > He died in 1912 and is buried in Elon, VA on property that was owned >by >the Wills family at that time. > If this is indeed the man that you are researching, I can put you in >touch with Fred Lewis and various Wills family members that can give you >more >information and directions to the cemetery, etc. > Hope this helps your search. > Janet Hill > > > >------------------------------- >To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >[email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the >quotes in the subject and the body of the message