Person:Amos Willis (3)

Name	Amos Willis
Gender	Male
Birth`^?`	1 Mar 1785	Maryland
Christening^[1]
Marriage	17 Dec 1811	Davidson, Tennessee, United Statesto Sarah Robertson (add)
Death`^?`	7 Jan	1840

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Data. Census Data for Willis in Hopkins County, KY

Transcript:1810 Census Record for Amos Willis, Hopkins County, Kentucky

Transcript:1820 Census Record for Amos Willis, Washington County, Virginia

Ancestry 1830 Census Age 40-49 => DOB of 1781-1790

This article is for the Amos who appears the 1820 census for Hopkins County TN. He may be the same person as appears in Southwest Virignia in the Saltville area, about the same time as Person:Abner WIllis (10, but his DOB (1785- Apparently based on the bible record of one of his sons), is too late to permit him to have appeared in SW VA tax records as earlier as 1795. So this is probably a different person.

in the tax records of Southwest Virgnia prior to 1800, in close proximity to person:Abner Willis (1), believed to be his brother. Amos dissappears from the area by 1820. His later whereabouts are unknown, but he may be the Amos Willis who appears in Hopkins County Kentucky by 1820.

Surnames.com citing Title: A History of Edwards County, Illinois: Volume One: 1814-1980

Publication:   Albion, Illinois :   Edwards County Historical Society, 1980

Page: page 360 & 454

Text: page 454

Wright W. Willis, born in Maryland, 1 March 1785, died 10 January 1840, in Edwards County, where he was Justice of Peace. His wife, Judith (Weir) born 9 February 1782, died 27 June 1854. They are buried in Little Prairie Christian Church cemetery, northwest of Albion, where Amos Willis (1789-1840) is also buried, Amos was Little Prairie's first minister, his son's Bible states that Amos was born in Maryland, also. Wright W. and Amos Willis were taxed together in Hopkins Co., Kentucky, in 1808. They are probably the sons of Revolutionary war(sic) veteran, Joel Willis and Mary (Wroth) Willis.
Judith (Weir) Willis was the daughter of William Weir, who had lived in Virginia and Carolina, and owned much land in Hopkins County, Kentucky. When he deeded 200 acres to each of his children 1813-1816, he was listed as a resident of Summer County, Tennessee, where his estate was settled in 1826. William Weir was a veteran of the Revolutionary war(sic). (Ky. Genealogy & Biography, Vol IV - 83)
Wright W. Willis was a Deacon in the Republican Christian Church when it was organized in Kentucky in 1834. In the mid-1830's they removed to McLean and Tazwell Counties in Illinois, then to Edwards County, where he died. Their eight children were: Richard T. Willis, Christian Church minister, married in January 1833, Rebecca Gore, removed to Dade County, Missouri. Evalina Willis (1810-1897) married 10 March 1831, Thomas Miller, physician, they died in Webster and Hopkins Counties, Kentucky. Elizabeth Willis (1811-1855) buried at Little Prairie, was the first wife of George Bunting (1815-1891), their children were: Evalina Colyer, Luke, Wright, George Russell, Charlotte May, William, and Elizabeth Crome. William R. Willis, (born 1813) El Paso, Illinois, lawyer, married Amanda Meek of Woodford County, Illinois. Asel Willis (1817-1890) married Mary Emmerson, lived near Grayville. Mary Willis (1819-1848) married 13 August 1840, in Edwards County, Alvin Routt Kenner, her tombstone is at Little Prairie, he remarried and moved to Flora, Illinois. Hannah E. Willis (1821-1892) married Benjamin Prall Reid, they are buried in West Village cemetery. Judith Willis (1824-1914) married 14 March 1844, James Kenner, minister, they removed to Eureka, Kansas, he was in the Kansas Legislature.
Wright W. and Judith (Weir) Willis have many descendants living in Edwards County at the present time.

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