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Publication: Albion, Illinois : Edwards County Historical Society, 1980
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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[edit] Marriage RecordName: Amos Willis Spouse: Sally Robertson Marriage Date: 17 Dec 1811 Marriage County: Davidson References
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