I just heard from my mother who think that there was also a Willis half-sister who married a dentist and had twin girls. She thought that two of the brothers went to Panama with my grandfather when he took a job as Post Master General of the Panama Canal Zone when it was being built. One brother died in a bar brawl...possibly in Panama. Sallie Casteel Brett Willis and Mr. Willis moved from the MS area in a wexterly direction. She thought TX, but I have letters from Sallie when she was in KY. This is not my mother's family so her memories may be slightly off as my grandfather died in the early 1960's at the age of 88. The brothers were not much younger. Elizabeth -----Original Message----- From: Elizabeth G. Brett [mailto:tecumseh@ioip.com] Sent: Tuesday, June 04, 2002 1:09 PM To: WILLIS-L@rootsweb.com Subject: Willis-Casteel-Brett MS, TN, KY, AL Hello List, I am looking for a Mr. Willis who may have been a physician ... or not. He married Sarah (Sallie) Casteel from Merengo County, AL a sort time after 1877. He was her second husband ...the first being Matthew Josephus Brett. My grandfather Homer Brett had three younger half brothers from the Willis union. One brother was in Az in the 1940's with three daughters...according to a photo I have. I am sorry I don't have more information but I would really like to connect to my Willis relations. Elizabeth G. Brett --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.368 / Virus Database: 204 - Release Date: 5/29/02 ============================== To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, go to: http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237 --- Incoming mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.368 / Virus Database: 204 - Release Date: 5/29/02 --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.368 / Virus Database: 204 - Release Date: 5/29/02

Hello List, I am looking for a Mr. Willis who may have been a physician ... or not. He married Sarah (Sallie) Casteel from Merengo County, AL a sort time after 1877. He was her second husband ...the first being Matthew Josephus Brett. My grandfather Homer Brett had three younger half brothers from the Willis union. One brother was in Az in the 1940's with three daughters...according to a photo I have. I am sorry I don't have more information but I would really like to connect to my Willis relations. Elizabeth G. Brett --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.368 / Virus Database: 204 - Release Date: 5/29/02

You might get more useful responses if you would add a couple of things. 1. Where were these people living, especially Carl J. Willis? 2. How are you connected? ----- Original Message ----- From: <ballhawk12@att.net> To: <WILLIS-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Wednesday, May 29, 2002 9:50 PM Subject: LOOKING FOR RELATIVES > Am looking for anyone with connections to the > following branch of my family tree. Am willing to > share > what little information that I have. Please email me > privately. > > James V Dlask > Ballhawk12@att.net > > Descendants of Carl J Willis > > > > 1 Carl J Willis 1894 - 1958 OB > .. +Ruby Tanner 1898 - 1987 OB > .. 2 Kenneth Carl Willis 1916 - 1998 > OB > ...... +Phyllis Berdine Harlan > ....... 3 Ruth Ann Willis > ........... +Kevin Montgomery > ....... 3 Mary Louise Willis > ........... +Allen Williams > ....... 3 Richard Kenneth Willis > ........... +Lauren ??? > .. 2 Emma Willis > ...... +Wesley Stoddard - 1998 > .. 2 Shirley Willis > ...... +Earl Mayfield > .. 2 Merwin Willis > ...... +Hope ??? > > > ============================== > To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, go to: > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237 > > >

Am looking for anyone with connections to the following branch of my family tree. Am willing to share what little information that I have. Please email me privately. James V Dlask Ballhawk12@att.net Descendants of Carl J Willis 1 Carl J Willis 1894 - 1958 OB .. +Ruby Tanner 1898 - 1987 OB .. 2 Kenneth Carl Willis 1916 - 1998 OB ...... +Phyllis Berdine Harlan ....... 3 Ruth Ann Willis ........... +Kevin Montgomery ....... 3 Mary Louise Willis ........... +Allen Williams ....... 3 Richard Kenneth Willis ........... +Lauren ??? .. 2 Emma Willis ...... +Wesley Stoddard - 1998 .. 2 Shirley Willis ...... +Earl Mayfield .. 2 Merwin Willis ...... +Hope ???

Looking for my great grandmothers family. I do not have parents for Lucy Willis living in Kennett, Dunklin Co., MO around early 1900's. She married Clinton Sylvester Busby and probably died around the 1970's in MO. Her siblings are Ambrose, Bud, Hattie, Eddie May and Gertie(Gertrude). I know they were Scottish and she had red hair and a strong acsent. Any help would be so great. Kim __________________________________________________________________ Your favorite stores, helpful shopping tools and great gift ideas. Experience the convenience of buying online with Shop@Netscape! http://shopnow.netscape.com/ Get your own FREE, personal Netscape Mail account today at http://webmail.netscape.com/

Were Ava's ages in the 1850, 1860, 1870 censuses approximately in agreement with your birth date of January, 1835? (You say 18 in 1850, so that's 3 years off for most of the year of 1850.) Do you have or can you get the marriage bond for Mary Willis to George Fields? Often the bond will say whether or not it is a first marriage. Same question for Ava and Hiram. The children living with Ava and Hiram don't have to belong (by birth) to either of them. Families often took in children from related families who had lost parents by sickness, etc. Three of my grandparents, for instance, were raised as "orphans" when their mothers died young. They were all raised by aunts. ----- Original Message ----- From: <PammiPooh@aol.com> To: <WILLIS-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Wednesday, May 22, 2002 4:08 PM Subject: Willis/Fields/Russells > > 1 Mary Polly Willis b: 1804 > .. +George Fields b: 1804 d: Abt. 1880 in Union County, TN. > ....... 2 Ava J. Willis/Fields? b: January 1835 in Claiborne Co. TN d: > Aft. 1900 > ............ +Hiram Russell b: September 24, 1833 in Claiborne Co. TN > d: October 06, 1868 in Claiborne Co. TN > > The above mentioned Mary Polly Willis married George Fields in 1846. In the > 1850 TN Census her daughter Ava was 18, so she couldn't possibly be George > Fields daughter. I'm trying to discover if Mary Polly Willis was married > before or was Ava born out of wedlock? > > Ava Willis/Fields interestingly enough is listed in the 1850 TN census as Ava > Fields. Then listed in the 1860 TN census as Ava/Avy Willis. By the next > census she's married to Hiram Russell. To complicate matters Ava and Hiram > have living with 2 children born long before they were married to one > another. I haven't figured out if they are Hirams children from another > marriage or her children born out of wedlock like she was. > > Does anyone recognize this Mary Polly Willis or Ava/Avy Willis? I'd be happy > to share what else I do have on these folks. > > Pamela Burnette > > > ============================== > To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, go to: > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237 > > >

1 Mary Polly Willis b: 1804 .. +George Fields b: 1804 d: Abt. 1880 in Union County, TN. ....... 2 Ava J. Willis/Fields? b: January 1835 in Claiborne Co. TN d: Aft. 1900 ............ +Hiram Russell b: September 24, 1833 in Claiborne Co. TN d: October 06, 1868 in Claiborne Co. TN The above mentioned Mary Polly Willis married George Fields in 1846. In the 1850 TN Census her daughter Ava was 18, so she couldn't possibly be George Fields daughter. I'm trying to discover if Mary Polly Willis was married before or was Ava born out of wedlock? Ava Willis/Fields interestingly enough is listed in the 1850 TN census as Ava Fields. Then listed in the 1860 TN census as Ava/Avy Willis. By the next census she's married to Hiram Russell. To complicate matters Ava and Hiram have living with 2 children born long before they were married to one another. I haven't figured out if they are Hirams children from another marriage or her children born out of wedlock like she was. Does anyone recognize this Mary Polly Willis or Ava/Avy Willis? I'd be happy to share what else I do have on these folks. Pamela Burnette

George Willis and Adele Batet Coggeshall married in Boston on 17 Oct 1898, by Geo Harold Smith, JP of 1030 Washington St. They were both already rooming at 92 Sawyer Street. He was a 45 year old confectioner and she was 22. I would like to know if they had children, when they died etc. I have not found them on Ancestry or in LDS. I am hoping someone may have info about them. Thanks Kathy Montgomery Victoria, BC

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Sounds like my Willis family. As far as I have back is Caleb and Rachel Reeves Willis. Me and another cousin have been trying to get further back. Let me know if this looks like a connection. Descendants of Caleb Willis Generation No. 1 1. Caleb Willis was born 20 Jan 1835, and died 31 May 1909. He married Rachel Reeves 21 Oct 1854. She was born 16 Mar 1840, and died 11 Dec 1904. Children of Caleb Willis and Rachel Reeves are: + 2 i. James Henry Franklin Willis, born 02 Jul 1860 in Bowling Green, Warren County, Kentucky. 3 ii. Sarah Elizabeth Willis, born 17 Aug 1862. 4 iii. Mary Frances Willis, born 25 Jan 1865 in Kentucky; died 30 Mar 1914. + 5 iv. William Allen Willis, born 03 Dec 1872 in Kentucky; died 30 Jul 1946 in Macon County, Tennessee. + 6 v. LouAda Dea Willis, born 18 Aug 1884; died 28 Feb 1952. Generation No. 2 2. James Henry Franklin Willis (Caleb) was born 02 Jul 1860 in Bowling Green, Warren County, Kentucky. He married (1) Sarah Frances Jones 11 Oct 1883. She was born 04 Apr 1867, and died 27 Apr 1886 in Macon County, Tennessee. He married (2) Nancy Ann Jones 02 Dec 1888, daughter of James Jones and Tenie Roark. She was born 26 Mar 1864 in Kentucky, and died 10 Sep 1939. Children of James Willis and Sarah Jones are: 7 i. Alice Isabelle Willis, born 21 Apr 1885; died 1976. She married Arthur I. Wilson. 8 ii. Mary Rachel Willis, born 09 Apr 1886; died 26 Aug 1959. She married (1) Arthur Wade. She married (2) Henry Oscar Cliburn 26 Aug 1906; born 28 Dec 1885; died 21 Oct 1942. Children of James Willis and Nancy Jones are: 9 i. Tenie Jane Willis, born 15 Jul 1890; died 11 May 1915. She married Bud Shuffitt; born 21 Nov 1886; died 03 Sep 1958. 10 ii. William Harrison Willis, born 19 Nov 1892. He married (1) Fannie May; born 24 Feb 1896. He married (2) Mazie Jones Douglas. 11 iii. Henry McKinley Willis, born 07 Mar 1894. 12 iv. James Curtis Willis, born 12 Sep 1895. 13 v. Thomas Hobert Willis, born 31 Jan 1897. 14 vi. Ada D. Willis, born Bet. May - Jul 1899. 15 vii. Dollie B Willis, born 10 Jun 1901. She married Knox Tracy; born 09 Nov 1889. 16 viii. Effie C. Willis, born 21 Jan 1903. 17 ix. Noah Roosevelt Willis, born 21 May 1905. 18 x. Hattie Mae Willis, born 14 Apr 1908. 5. William Allen Willis (Caleb) was born 03 Dec 1872 in Kentucky, and died 30 Jul 1946 in Macon County, Tennessee. He married Matilda Etter Cliburn 22 Jul 1891, daughter of Joseph Cliburn and Elizabeth Johnson. She was born 26 Jun 1873 in Tennessee, and died 25 Apr 1911 in Tennessee. Children of William Willis and Matilda Cliburn are: 19 i. Henry Razie Willis, born 27 Apr 1892; died 19 May 1944. He married Florence Gifford. 20 ii. Pernie Naomi Willis, born 30 Jun 1895; died 24 Aug 1974. She married John Sisk. 21 iii. Rachel Lizabeth Willis, born 20 Mar 1897 in Kentucky; died 14 Jul 1933 in Vanderbilt Hospital, Nashville, Tennessee. She married James William Keen 23 Dec 1923; born 10 Oct 1894; died 07 Nov 1960 in Macon General Hospital, Lafayette, Tennessee. 22 iv. William Wimbert Willis, born 19 Apr 1899; died 29 Dec 1899. 23 v. Daisy Marie Willis, born 12 Dec 1900; died 20 Jun 1980 in Indianapolis, Indiana. She married Isaac Oneal 09 Feb 1919; died 18 Nov 1983. 24 vi. Sabra Dea Willis, born 16 Feb 1903; died 10 Jan 1930. She married Gilbert McAdoo. 25 vii. Theodore Roosevelt Willis, born 01 Feb 1905 in Tennessee; died 03 Dec 1983. He married Vangie Carter 07 Jun 1925. 26 viii. Anna Mae Willis, born 10 Jun 1907; died 12 Dec 1979. She married (1) Ravin Byrd Likens 10 Feb 1924; born 26 Feb 1895; died 08 Feb 1965. She married (2) Marvin Lee Keen 05 Oct 1974; born 04 Mar 1900; died 06 May 1984. 27 ix. Evie Era Willis, born 06 Feb 1911; died 10 Jun 1911. 6. LouAda Dea Willis (Caleb) was born 18 Aug 1884, and died 28 Feb 1952. She married John Ligon Meador 26 Mar 1902, son of William Meador and Sarah Belt. He was born 04 Aug 1887, and died 10 Dec 1935. Children of LouAda Willis and John Meador are: 28 i. Bobby Meador. 29 ii. Carlos Meador. 30 iii. Clarence Meador. 31 iv. Pearl Elizabeth Meador, born Abt. 1904. 32 v. Vada Vassie Meador, born 20 Apr 1912; died 08 Mar 1992. She married Thomas Johnson. Chris Cliburn http://www.chrisnchris.com chris@chrisnchris.com _____________________________ "Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn." ---Benjamin Franklin -----Original Message----- From: Oneclassieladie@aol.com [mailto:Oneclassieladie@aol.com] Sent: Wednesday, May 01, 2002 1:01 AM To: WILLIS-L@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: WILLIS-D Digest V02 #46 Martha, I have a William Willis b.1872 or 1873 d. 1925. His father was also named William Willis, but they were from Ky. If you know anything about the Ky. Willis please let me know. Thanks Pat

Hi All, Here's what I have to date.... Wills John W. b.abt. 1848 m.Elizabeth Cone or Comb b.abt 1851 m. 30 Aug. 1857 Paulding Co GA issue: 1.Eliza b. abt 1857 2.Sarah b. abt. 1859 3.Frances Cathorine b. 18 Sept. 1861 m.(1)John Wills DAVIS (2) Unknown ADAIR Frances d. 18 Feb 1918 Anything on John W or Elizabeth would be helpful. Thank You, Roxy --------------------------------- Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Health - your guide to health and wellness

Martha, I have a William Willis b.1872 or 1873 d. 1925. His father was also named William Willis, but they were from Ky. If you know anything about the Ky. Willis please let me know. Thanks Pat

I am looking for info on a William Willis, b abt 1780,(according to later census records, in NC) who married Cicily Coats in Rowan Co NC in 1810. He died in Shelby Co AL. abt 1859. Who were his parents and siblings? Any info appreciated. S.W.R.

Hello. I thought I would update my Willis family. Nancy's last name is possibly SLOAN. I am not certain of that. Martha Sargent Henry WILLIS b ca 1795 + Nancy ??? b ca 1795 Known Children (There could be more) Daniel WILLIS b 1815 married Diana "Ann, Annie" McGrew, lived monroe Co. OH John S. WILLIS b 1819 "Monongahela" VA, according to Civil War pension papers, Probably b PA, died in CW. + Julia Ann MOWDER b PA Jeremiah WILLIS b 1820 Marshall Co. WV d Wood Co. WV m Mary WILLIS (maiden name) Henry WILLIS b 1826 OH m Sarah ? William b 1822 Marshall Co. WV d Wood Co. WV Mary A. WILLIS b 1838 OH Martha A. Willis b 1847 OH George W. Willis b 1866 There was another William WILLIS b ca 1813 VA, marr 1st ???, m 2nd Ann Matilda Thompson, who traveled with these families from PA to Marshall Co, WV to Monroe, Belmont, Washington, Meigs and Gallia Co. in OH. These men were mostly Coopers and farmers. They followed Salt works and oil fields to earn money. Some were farming also. Thanks for any help. I have tons of info on these people and will gladly share. Martha Cross Sargent

Sam, go to the Randy Willis site. He is a descendant,, of this WILLIS family.

Seeking contact with descendants of Brig. Gen John Willis of Bladen/Robeson Co NC, and later of Mississippi. Sam West Lumberton [Robeson Co] NC

Anna Frances Willis b m d spouse Robert Howland Bowne b 1825 New Bedford MA d ---------------- Elizabeth Willis b m d spouse Stephen Cornell Bowne b 1799 Flushing NY d ------------------- Townsend Willis (SR) b m d spouse Hannah Bowne b 1762 Flushing NY d thanks audrey Bowne Seattle gregbowne@earthlink.net

Can anyone help me and provide any further info. on the following. Thank you. Gold Subject: Mrs. Charles T. (Dora E. CROSSMAN) WILLIS Charles C, John W. and T. B. WILLIS are the sons of Dora E. CROSSMAN WILLIS and Charles T. WILLIS. Mrs. Harry G. BROOKS, Mrs. W. G. (Dora E.) STOREY all of Columbus, GA and Mrs. M. M. BROWNE of Miami, FL are the daughters of Dora E. CROSSMAN WILLIS. Harry G. Brooks, Jr. and Joseph Brooks of Columbus are the grandsons of Dora E. CROSSMAN WILLIS Dora E. CROSSMAN WILLIS died 1933. Dora E. WILLIS STOREY died 1976 and her brother John W. Willis is listed as a survivor. Were her nephews, Harry G. Brooks, Jr. and Joseph Brooks still alive in 1976? Do they have descendants? DO I HAVE ANY COUSINS OUT THERE? Can anyone tell me Mrs. Brooks' 1st name and Mrs. Browne's 1st name please. Apparently there are many BROOKs in Columbus and I snailmailed the H. BROOKS and the J. BROOKS and enclosed a SASE, but they didn't reply/ Dora E. Crossman was the daughter of William Harvey CROSSMAN and Angy/Anzy MERCER CROSSMAN of Lumpkin, Stewart Co., GA Wm. Harvey CROSSMAN was the son of William CROSSMAN of New Jersey and this NJ William Crossman was my G GF. The 1870 census for Lumpkin lists John & Dora as having a sister but I cannot read her name - it looks like Anne. She is not on the 1880 census. I would like to know her name and what happened to her. I would appreciate people sharing their information with me please, please. Thank you. Gold ==== GAMUSCOG Mailing List ==== Visit the Muscogee GAGenWeb Archives http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/ga/muscogee.htm

I would like info on a WILLIS married to a BOWNE thanks audrey Bowne Seattle gregbowne@earthlink.net

Looking for the father, mother or siblings of Robert Willis, who was married to Mary Mc Vay in Grainger CO. , TN in 1805-6. In the 1850 census he says he was born in VA abt 1784 Thank you for any help I may receive and I will be happy to share any information that I have on the Willis family. Sally Willis Krage skrage@hctc.com