Person:Drury Willis (1)

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Name Drury Willis
Gender Male
Marriage Bef 1790 to Elizabeth Phelps (add)
Marriage Est 1813 to Sarah Evans (add)

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Sources

Transcript:Tax Lists for Willis in Kentucky, 1800

Related

Notebook. Drury Willis of Madison County KY, c1814
Person:Richard Willis (20)
Person:William Willis (57)
Transcription:Family Bible Moses B. Willis, Madison KY, c 1850

Overview

Most genealogists on Ancestry give Drury's DOB as c.1765 [1] in Mecklenberg/Luneberg County, Va. Some identify him as the son of a Richard Willis and Ann Crowder, and others as the son of William Willis and Elizabeth Davis. He is said to have married first Elizabeth Phelps, and second Sally Hardester nee Evans. [2]From Family Bible records Elizabeth apparently died between Feb 1813 (birth of Elizabeths last child) and about April of 1814, (9 months prior to the birth of Sarah's first child.)

Drury moved to Madison County KY by 1797 when he begins to appear in the county tax records. [3] However, a familly bible for one of his sons, Moses Willis, records the births of his children in Madison County as early as 1790.

Family

The following is a working diagram of Drury's family relationships. Many of these relationships have not been verified. IN particular the information concerning the identity of his parents is ambiguous, which is why two different sets of possible parents are shown. Family Bible records for Drury's family show a nuymber of additional children than those currently. TBD


Notes

From:Google Books

Luther Clay Willis was born on a farm in Shelby County, Kentucky, January 7, 1849. His familv reaches back to the very beginning of civilization in Kentucky. His great-grandfather Drury Willis was born in Culpeper County, Virginia, in 1760. With two brothers he came to the western wilderness of Kentucky and was a pioneer in Madison County. He lived there until his death in 1820 and was buried at the White Oak Pond Meeting House. The grandfather of the Shelbyville lawyer was Henry Willis, who was born in Madison County in 1792 and married Elizabeth Hagan.

Footnotes

  1. A nephew, son of brother Sherrod Willis, was born about 1794 in Jessamine County, married Mary Hunter.
  2. See Data. Marriage Records for Willis in Madison, KY, 1782-1844 for supporting evidence for second marriage.
  3. See: Notebook. Drury Willis of Madison County KY, c1814]]