Missouri Family Group Sheet for the William Riley WILLS Family
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Submitted by: Gina Heffernan
Email address: <gina gale h @ yahoo . com>
Submitted: 19 Nov 2014
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Husband: William Riley WILLS
(1)
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AKA: Billy WILLS
Birthdate: 3 Aug 1828
- , Clay, Missouri, USA (2,3)
Death date: 27 Apr 1902
- , Bell, Texas, USA (4)
Buried: 28 Apr 1902 - , Bell, Texas, USA
Address: Pleasant Hill Cemetery, Bell County, Texas
Father: James Buchanan WILLS (1798-1872) (5)
Mother: Amy W SHACKLEFORD (1800-Bef 1870)
Marriage: 10 Mar 1853
Place: , Bell, Texas, USA (6,7)
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Wife: Saluda Elizabeth CROSS
(9)
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Birthdate: 9 Mar 1837
- , , Missouri, USA (10,11,12,13,14)
Death date: 7 Jan 1932
- Killeen, Bell, Texas, USA (15)
Buried: 8 Jan 1932 - , Bell, Texas, USA
Address: Pleasant Hill Cemetery, Bell County, Texas
Father: James Madison CROSS (1811-1898)
Mother: Lucy BAILEY (1812-1895)
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Children
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1 F Lucy A WILLS (18,19)
Birthdate: 22 May 1854 - , Bell, Texas, USA (20,21,22)
Death date: 21 May 1936 - , Archer, Texas, USA (22)
Buried: 22 May 1936 - Archer City, Archer, Texas, USA (22)
Address: Archer City Cemetery, Archer County, Texas
Spouse: William RANNE (Abt 1850-Bef 1880)
Marr. Date: 22 Jun 1873 - , Bell, Texas, USA (23)
Spouse: John C COX (1856-1940) (24)
Marr. Date: 1879 (25)
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2 M Thomas A WILLS (26,27)
Birthdate: 3 Jan 1856 - , Bell, Texas, USA (28)
Death date: 19 May 1873 - , Bell, Texas, USA
Buried: 20 May 1873 - , Bell, Texas, USA
Address: Pleasant Hill Cemetery, Bell County, Texas
Spouse: Did Not Marry
Marr. Date:
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3 F Almyra L WILLS (29,30)
Birthdate: 1858 - , Bell, Texas, USA (31)
Death date: Mar 1891 - , , Texas, USA (2)
Buried: Mar 1891 - , Nolan, Texas, USA
Address: Campbell Cemetry, Nolan County, Texas
Spouse: John F ALLMAN (1852-1941) (32,33)
Marr. Date: 27 Jun 1875 - , Bell, Texas, USA (34)
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4 F Amy J WILLS (35,36)
Birthdate: 20 May 1860 - , Bell, Texas, USA (36,37,38)
Death date: 1 Mar 1953 - Ozona, Crockett, Texas, USA (36,39)
Buried: 2 Mar 1953 - Ozona, Crockett, Texas, USA (36)
Address: Cedar Hill Cemetery, Crockett County, Texas
Spouse: William Jones MILLER (1858-1944) (40,41,42)
Marr. Date: 1 Jan 1878 - , Bell, Texas, USA (43)
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5 M James Riley WILLS (44,45,46,47)
Birthdate: 14 Feb 1863 - , Bell, Texas, USA (44,48,49)
Death date: 2 Jul 1937 - , Scurry, Texas, USA (44,45,47,50)
Buried: 3 Jul 1937 - Fluvanna, Scurry, Texas, USA (51)
Address: Fluvanna Cemetery, Scurry County, Fluvanna, Texas
Spouse: Annie Elizabeth SANDERFORD (1870-1966) (52,53,54)
Marr. Date: 14 Nov 1888 - , Bell, Texas, USA (55)
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6 M Virgil Alexander WILLS (56)
Birthdate: 26 Jan 1865 - , Bell, Texas, USA (57,58)
Death date: 4 May 1934 - Killeen, Bell, Texas, USA (50,59)
Buried: 5 May 1934 - Killeen, Bell, Texas, USA (59)
Address: Killeen City Cemetery, Bell County, Texas
Spouse: Eula A BAILES (1866-1942) (60,61,62)
Marr. Date: 1890 (63)
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7 M William David WILLS
Birthdate: 1867 - , Bell, Texas, USA
Death date: 1869 - , Bell, Texas, USA
Buried: 1869 - , Bell, Texas, USA
Address: Pleasant Hill Cemetery, Bell County, Texas
Spouse: Did Not Marry
Marr. Date:
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8 F Mary E WILLS (65)
Birthdate: May 1870 - , Bell, Texas, USA (66,67)
Death date: 1925 - , , Texas, USA (50)
Buried: 1925 - , Bell, Texas, USA (68)
Address: Pleasant Hill Cemetery, Bell County, Texas
Spouse: George Rufus SANDERFORD (1867-1944) (69,70)
Marr. Date: 28 Jul 1887 - , Bell, Texas, USA (71)
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9 M Curtis Edward WILLS (72,73)
Birthdate: 16 Dec 1872 - , Bell, Texas, USA (74,75)
Death date: 1922 - , Bell, Texas, USA
Buried: 1922 - Nolanville, Bell, Texas, USA
Address: Pleasant Hill Cemetery, Bell County, Texas
Spouse: Lillie WOOD (1879-1946) (76)
Marr. Date: 26 Mar 1906 - , Bell, Texas, USA (77)
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10 M Oliver Sampson WILLS (78,79)
Birthdate: 10 Jun 1875 - Belton, Bell, Texas, USA (74,80,81)
Death date: 22 May 1951 - Fluvanna, Scurry, Texas, USA (50,79)
Buried: 23 May 1951 - Fluvanna, Scurry, Texas, USA (79)
Address: Fluvanna Cemetery, Scurry County, Fluvanna, Texas
Spouse: Lula Plum Rose GARNER (1873-1958) (82,83,84)
Marr. Date: 16 Jan 1897 - , Bell, Texas, USA (85)
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11 M John Cross WILLS (86)
Birthdate: 16 Aug 1877 - , , Texas, USA (2,87)
Death date: 25 Mar 1961 - Altadena, Los Angeles, California, USA (88)
Buried: 27 Mar 1961 - Nolanville, Bell, Texas, USA
Address: Pleasant Hill Cemetery, Bell County, Texas
Spouse: Ida Robert KAISER (1881-1957) (89,90,91)
Marr. Date: 21 Nov 1909 - , Bell, Texas, USA (92)
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General Notes: Wife - Saluda Elizabeth CROSS
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Newspaper article:
Mrs. Saluda Wills
This is Mrs. Saluda Wills of Killeen who was recently honored with a birthday dinner
by her children and other relatives. Mrs. Wills is 90 years of age. At the dinner were
two of her brothers, Quinley Cross, 72, and V. A. Cross, 80, both of Brownwood.
Mrs. Wills came from Mississippi to Texas at the age of 10 and married W. A. Wills at
Holland when she was only 15. Her husband died about 20 years ago. She has lived in Bell
County 80 years. Her surviving children are: Oliver, Jim, John and Verge Wills, the
latter two of Killeen. Mrs. John C. Cox of Killeen and Mrs. Jones Miller of Ozona are
daughters.
Mrs. Wills is very active for her age. A favorite recreation is to do art work, fancy
embroidering, etc., which she presents to her children as keepsakes.
Mrs. Wills draws a Mexican War pension, of which ____ ____ ___ only two others in
Texas are entitled to.
Last Modified: 19 Nov 2014
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Sources
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1. Memorial and Biographical History of McLennan, Falls, Bell and Coryell Counties,
Texas,(Chicago: The Lewis Publishing Company; 1893) ppg 716-717. "William R Wills,
a hero of two wars, and an early settler of Texas, was born in Clay county,
Missouri, August 3, 1826, the fifth of elevn children born to James B and Anna
Wills."
2. Memorial and Biographical History of McLennan, Falls, Bell and Coryell Counties,
Texas,(Chicago: The Lewis Publishing Company; 1893) ppg 716-717.
3. 1860 Federal Census, Texas, Bell, pg 58 (324). age 31, Missouri.
4. Pension File, Wills, Saluda Elizabeth #49469. "I am a widow of William Wills
deceased, who departed this life on the 26th day of April, A.D. 1903, in the county
of Bell in the state of Texas."
5. 1860 Federal Census, Texas, Bell, pg 324. Jas B Wills.
6. Limmer, E A Jr, Story of Bell County, Texas Vol 2,(Eakin Press, Austin, Texas, 1988)
pg 1006.
7. Pension File, Wills, Saluda Elizabeth #49469. "I was married to him on the 8th day of
March A.D. 1852, in the county of Bell..." This is recorded as 10 Mar 1853, in Bell
County, by M W Dameron, JP.
8. Pension File, Wills, Saluda Elizabeth #49469. "What was the name or letter of the
company....Captain Alfred Evans' Company of the 27th. Brigade, Texas Militia."
9. Pension File, Wills, Saluda Elizabeth #49469.
10. Memorial and Biographical History of McLennan, Falls, Bell and Coryell Counties,
Texas,(Chicago: The Lewis Publishing Company; 1893) ppg 716-717. "Mr Wills was
married in the spring of 1853, to Miss Saluda Cross, who was born March 9, 1837, and
a daughter of James Cross."
11. 1860 Federal Census, Texas, Bell, pg 58 (324). age 23, Missouri.
12. 1850 Federal Census, Texas, Milam, pg 16A, hh #420/436. age 13, Missouri.
13. Pension File, Wills, Saluda Elizabeth #49469. "age 94 March 9, 1837" date 2/7/1931
"I was born March 9, 1836, and will, therefore, be 94 years of age on March 9, 1931.
I was born in Mississippi..."
14. Death Certificate, Wills, Saluda E #D144.
15. Pension File, Wills, Saluda Elizabeth #49469. "...Mrs. Saluda E. Wills, died on the
7th day of January, 1932, near Killeen, Texas."
16. Pension File, Wills, Saluda Elizabeth #49469. "I have been a bona fide resident of
this state continuously since the 15 day of May A.D. 1846" "I was born in
Mississippi, and came to Texas in 1848."
17. Pension File, Wills, Saluda Elizabeth #49469. "We settled in Bell County, Texas, in
1855, near where the town of Holland, Bell County, Texas, now stands."
18. 1870 Federal Census, Texas, Bell, pg 32 (108B). Lucy Will.
19. 1860 Federal Census, Texas, Bell, pg 58 (324). L A Wills.
20. Memorial and Biographical History of McLennan, Falls, Bell and Coryell Counties,
Texas,(Chicago: The Lewis Publishing Company; 1893) ppg 716-717. "Mr and Mrs Wills
have had eleven children, viz: Lucy, born May 22, 1854, married William Rann, and
after his death she became the wife of J C Cox, a farmer of Bell county; Thomas,
deceased at the age of eighteen years; Myra, who died in March, 1891, was the wife
of John Allman; Amy, wife of J Miller, a stock-raiser of Crockett county; James R, a
farmer of Bell county. Virgil, also a farmer of this county; David deceased in
infancy; Molly, wife of George R Sanford; Curtis, at home; Oliver S, also at home;
and John C, born August 16, 1877."
21. 1860 Federal Census, Texas, Bell, pg 58 (324). age 6, Texas.
22. Death Certificate, Cox, Mrs John C #23865.
23. Bell Co, Texas Marriage Book, bk E pg 179. William Ranne to Lucy Wills, 22 Jun 1873,
by William B Cross, OMG.
24. 1880 Federal Census, Texas, Bell, ED 7, pg 42 (447B). J C Cox.
25. 1900 Federal Census, Texas, Bell, ED 33, pg 13A. married 21 years.
26. 1870 Federal Census, Texas, Bell, pg 32 (108B). Thomas Will.
27. 1860 Federal Census, Texas, Bell, pg 58 (324). Thos Wills.
28. 1860 Federal Census, Texas, Bell, pg 58 (324). age 4, Texas.
29. 1870 Federal Census, Texas, Bell, pg 32 (108B). Elmira Will.
30. 1860 Federal Census, Texas, Bell, pg 58 (324). Elmira Wills.
31. 1860 Federal Census, Texas, Bell, pg 58 (324). age 2, Texas.
32. Bell Co, Texas Marriage Book, bk E pg 355. J F Allman to Elmira Wills.
33. 1880 Federal Census, Texas, Bell, ED 8, pg 27 (462A). John F Allman.
34. Bell Co, Texas Marriage Book, bk E pg 355.
35. 1870 Federal Census, Texas, Bell, pg 32 (108B). Amy Will.
36. Death Certificate, Miller, Amy Wills #12387.
37. 1870 Federal Census, Texas, Bell, pg 32 (108B). age 10, Texas.
38. 1900 Federal Census, Texas, Crockett, ED 123, pg 11B. age 39, Nov 1860, Texas.
39. Newspaper clipping, Cross, Saluda.
40. Bell Co, Texas Marriage Book, bk F pg 252. W J Miller to A J Wills.
41. 1880 Federal Census, Texas, Bell, ED 7, pg 41 (447A). Jones Miller.
42. Death Certificate, Miller, Jones William #22090.
43. Bell Co, Texas Marriage Book, bk F pg 252. W J Miller to A J Wills, 1 Jan 1878,
Belltown.
44. Family History Library Catalog, Film Number: 458391.
45. Cemetery, Fluvanna, Scurry Co, TX, Wills, James Riley.
46. 1870 Federal Census, Texas, Bell, pg 32 (108B). James Will.
47. Death Certificate, Wills, James Riley #38264.
48. 1870 Federal Census, Texas, Bell, pg 32 (108B). age 8, Texas.
49. Death Certificate, Wills, James Riley #38264. 14 Feb 1863, Bell County.
50. Newspaper clipping, Wills, Saluda.
51. Death Certificate, Wills, James Riley #38264. Fluvanna.
52. Cemetery, Fluvanna, Scurry Co, TX, Wills, Annie Elizabeth.
53. Death Certificate, Wills, Annie Elizabeth #54083.
54. Bell Co, Texas Marriage Book, bk H, pg 513. J R Wills to Annie Sanderford.
55. Bell Co, Texas Marriage Book, bk H, pg 513. J R Wills to Annie Sanderford, 14 Nov
1888, by E C Ragsdale.
56. 1870 Federal Census, Texas, Bell, pg 32 (108B). Virgil Will.
57. 1870 Federal Census, Texas, Bell, pg 32 (108B). age 6, Texas.
58. Death Certificate, Wills, Virgil A #70991. 26 Jan 1865, Bell County.
59. Death Certificate, Wills, Virgil A #70991.
60. Death Certificate, Wills, Virgil A #70991. Eula Wills.
61. 1930 Federal Census, Texas, Bell, ED 33, pg 6B. Eula Wills.
62. Death Certificate, Wills, Eulalie #19056. The 1880 census reports her name as Eula
Lee Bailes.
63. 1900 Federal Census, Texas, Bell, ED 21, pg 10B. married 10 years.
64. 1900 Federal Census, Texas, Bell, ED 33, pg 2B. Mollie Sanderford.
65. 1880 Federal Census, Texas, Bell, ED 7, pg 41 (447A). Mary Wills.
66. 1880 Federal Census, Texas, Bell, ED 7, pg 41 (447A). age 10, Texas.
67. 1900 Federal Census, Texas, Bell, ED 33, pg 2B. age 30, May 1870, Texas.
68. Pleasant Hill Cemetery, Bell County, Texas, Sanderford, Mary.
69. Death Certificate, Sanderford, George Rufus #185.
70. Bell Co, Texas Marriage Book, bk H pg 298. G R Sanderford to M E Wills.
71. Bell Co, Texas Marriage Book, bk H pg 298. G R Sanderford to M E Wills, 28 Jul 1887,
Bell County.
72. 1880 Federal Census, Texas, Bell, ED 7, pg 41 (447A). Curtis Wills.
73. U.S., World War I Draft Registration Cards, 1917-1918 (FamilySearch.org), Wills,
Curtis Edward.
74. 1880 Federal Census, Texas, Bell, ED 7, pg 41 (447A). age 8, Texas.
75. U.S., World War I Draft Registration Cards, 1917-1918 (FamilySearch.org), Wills,
Curtis Edward. 16 Dec 1872.
76. Bell Co, Texas Marriage Book, bk Q pg 27. C E Wills to Lillie Jacobs.
77. Bell Co, Texas Marriage Book, bk Q pg 27. C E Wills to Lillie Jacobs, 25 Mar 1906.
78. 1880 Federal Census, Texas, Bell, ED 7, pg 41 (447A). Oliver Wills.
79. Death Certificate, Wills, Oliver S #26508.
80. Cemetery, Fluvanna, Scurry Co, TX, Wills, Oliver Sampson.
81. Death Certificate, Wills, Oliver S #26508. 10 Jun 1875, Belton, Texas.
82. Death Certificate, Wills, Plum Rose #46533.
83. Bell Co, Texas Marriage Book, bk M pg 440. O S Wills to Plum Garner.
84. 1880 Federal Census, Texas, McLennan, ED 114 pg 3-4 (203C-D). Lula P Garner.
85. Bell Co, Texas Marriage Book, bk M pg 440. O S Wills to Plum Garner, 15 Jan 1899.
86. 1880 Federal Census, Texas, Bell, ED 7, pg 41 (447A). John Wills.
87. 1880 Federal Census, Texas, Bell, ED 7, pg 41 (447A). age 2, Texas.
88. California State Death Index (http://vitals.rootsweb.com/ca/death/search.cgi), Wills,
John C. 25 Mar 1961, Los Angeles County. Index
89. Death Certificate, Wills, Ida Robert #35018.
90. 1910 Federal Census, Texas, Bell, ED 25, pg 8A. Ida Wills.
91. Bell Co, Texas Marriage Book, bk R pg 517. J C Wills to Ida Kaiser.
92. Bell Co, Texas Marriage Book, bk R pg 517. J C Wills to Ida Kaiser, 21 Nov 1909.
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