Family:Smith Willis and Mary Mullen (1)

Facts and Events
Marriage[1][3] Est 1792 Washington County, Virginia
Children
BirthDeath
1.
Est 1795
2.
 
3.
1799

Overview

Smith Willis appears in Washington County, VA after the Revolution, marrying Mary Mullen about 1793. Smith left the area after 1800, settling in Wayne County Kentucky. His wife died there about 1828. Smith then moved south, in his later years, to Morgan County TN, where his daugher Elizabeth was living. Here he remarried, this time to ____Fulton, by whom he had a son, John Logan Willis, at age 75. Smith died in Morgan County about 1840.

References
  1. Brown, D. E. The marriages of Washington County, Virginia, 1781-1853: to which is added short sketches of the early ministers of the county. (Abingdon, Virginia: Historical Society of Washington County, 1999).
  2.   Hiatt, Marty and Craig Roberts Scott, compilers. Virginia Historic Marriage Register. Washington County, Virginia, Marriages; Ministers' Returns, 1776-1855. Athens, Georgia: Iberian Publishing
    182.

    McMullin

    Mary & Smith Willis---179-; min-Nicholas Reagan. Date uncertain

  3. Source:Summers, 1929 Gives a listing of early marriages in Washington County, based on "court records". The entry for Smith Willis and Mary McMullen is listed in a group of marriages by the Rev. Nicholas Reagan, all of which marriages appear without a date. In fact none of Rev. Reagan's marriages are given with a date.

    In this case The immediately previous marriage is listed as 7 Feb 1792, and the immediately following entry is listed as 26 February 1793. This seems to have led some to believe that the marriage for this couple was carried out between 7 Feb 1792 and 26 Feb 1793. This is probably not the case since the marriages are ordered by last name of the groom, and are not in date order. As a result the marriages by Nicholas Reagan can not be dated by looking at the previous and succeeding date entry's.