Husband: James WILLS
Birthdate: 17 Jul 1763
Birthplace: , Chester, Pennsylvania, USA
Death date: 17 Aug 1855
Place of death: , Ray, Missouri, USA
Burial: Old New Garden Cemetery, Ray County, Wood Heights, Missouri
Father:
Mother:
Other spouses:

Marriage date: Abt 1790
Marriage place: , , Virginia, USA

Wife: Lillian BUCHANAN
Birthdate: Abt 1770
Birthplace: , Washington, Virginia, USA
Death date: Aft 1820
Place of death:
Burial:
Father: Archibald BUCHANAN (1728-1806) (2,3)
Mother: Agnes BOWEN (1734-1803) (4,5)
Other spouses:

CHILDREN

Child No. 1: Archibald WILLS
Sex: M
Birthdate: 1792
Birthplace: , Rutherford, Tennessee, USA (6)
Death date: 2 Dec 1877
Place of death: , Clay, Missouri, USA
Burial: DeBerry Cemetery, Platte County, Missouri
Marriage date: 28 Feb 1828
Marriage place: , Clay, Missouri, USA (8)
Spouses' names: Nancy HUFFMAN (1810-After 1879) (7)

Child No. 2: George WILLS
Sex: M
Birthdate: 1794
Birthplace: , Rutherford, Tennessee, USA (9)
Death date: Aft 1869
Place of death: , Leavenworth, Kansas, USA (10)
Burial:
Marriage date: 20 Mar 1825
Marriage place: , Rutherford, Tennessee, USA (11)
Spouses' names: Sarah Elizabeth SHACKLEFORD (1806-After 1879)

Child No. 3: Mary WILLS
Sex: F
Birthdate: Cir 1795
Birthplace: , Rutherford, Tennessee, USA
Death date: 20 Jul 1837
Place of death: , Ray, Missouri, USA (12)
Burial: Old New Garden Cemetery, Ray County, Wood Heights, Missouri
Marriage date: 23 Oct 1810
Marriage place: , Rutherford, Tennessee, USA (14,15)
Spouses' names: James DICKIE (1788-1857) (13)

Child No. 4: James B WILLS (16,17,18)
Sex: M
Birthdate: 1798
Birthplace: , Rutherford, Tennessee, USA (19)
Death date: 1872
Place of death: , , Texas, USA (20)
Burial:
Marriage date: [1] 3 Jan 1816 [2] Bef 1870 (25)
Marriage place: [1] , Rutherford, Tennessee, USA (22,23)
Spouses' names: [1] Amy W SHACKLEFORD (1800-Bef 1870) (21) [2] Elizabeth ??? (1813-1885) (24)

Child No. 5: Susan WILLS
Sex: F
Birthdate: Abt 1798
Birthplace: , Rutherford, Tennessee, USA
Death date: Deceased
Place of death:
Burial:
Marriage date:
Marriage place:
Spouses' names:

Child No. 6: Margaret WILLS (26)
Sex: F
Birthdate: 1 Jan 1801
Birthplace: , Rutherford, Tennessee, USA (27,28)
Death date: Aft 1879
Place of death:
Burial:
Marriage date: 3 Jul 1827
Marriage place: , Ray, Missouri, USA (30)
Spouses' names: John CLEAVENGER (1798-After 1879) (29)

Child No. 7: David L WILLS
Sex: M
Birthdate: 12 Jul 1804
Birthplace: , Rutherford, Tennessee, USA
Death date: 16 Jan 1854
Place of death: , Clay, Missouri, USA
Burial:
Marriage date: 1823
Marriage place: , Clay, Missouri, USA
Spouses' names: Elizabeth CHEEK (Abt 1805-????)
 
 
Documentation:
  1. DAR, American Monthly Magazine, April 1908, Vol XXXII No 4.
  2. Aronhime, Gordon, "Gordon Aronhime Papers" (handwritten on index cards), Buchanan, Alexander I. ... Two brothers Archibald and John settled in ... This card file lists all verifiable adult males in the Holston-Clinch River area in the last quarter of the eighteenth century, as well as information on early East Tennessee settlers. There are more than 4,000 entries which, in most cases, indicate birth and death dates, marriage information, children, abstract of will, and other biographical information if available. Information is sometimes continued on a second card. Sources are noted. General arrangement is alphabetical by last name.
  3. Aronhime, Gordon, "Gordon Aronhime Papers" (handwritten on index cards), Buchanan, Archibald. ... Archibald Buchanan (1728-????) died 180 Wife Agnes Bowen m (1) James McFerrin ... a brother to John (son Patrick) ...
  4. Will, Book 1, page 73, Lilly McIlhaney Bowen. ... my daughter Agnes Buchanan ...
  5. Aronhime, Gordon, "Gordon Aronhime Papers" (handwritten on index cards), Buchanan, Archibald. ... Wife Agnes Bowen m (1) James McFerrin ...
  6. 1850 Federal Census, Missouri, Platte, pg 413. age 58, Tennessee.
  7. Missouri Marriages, 1750-1920, Wills, Archibald. to Nancy Huffman.
  8. Missouri Marriages, 1750-1920, Wills, Archibald. to Nancy Huffman, 28 Feb 1828, Clay County.
  9. 1860 Federal Census, Kansas, Leavenworth, Kickapoo Township.
  10. 1880 Federal Census Mortality Schedule, Kansas, Leavenworth.
  11. Tennessee Marriages, 1796-1950 (FamilySearch.org), Wills, George. to Sarah Shackleford, 20 Mar 1825, Rutherford County.
  12. Old New Garden Cemetery, Ray County, Missouri (http://genealogytrails.com/mo/ray/o.html#(Old)New).
  13. Tennessee Marriages, 1796-1950 (FamilySearch.org), Dickey, James. to Mary Wells.
  14. Rutherford Co, TN, Marriage Book (TNGenWeb.org). http://www.tngenweb.org/rutherford/marr2.htm
  15. Tennessee Marriages, 1796-1950 (FamilySearch.org), Dickey, James. to Mary Wells, 23 Oct 1810, Rutherford County.
  16. 1860 Federal Census, Texas, Bell, pg 324. Jas B Wills.
  17. Daughters of the Republic of Texas Patriot Ancestor Album, Volume 2, (Turner Publishing Company; Paducah, KY; 2001) pg 137. "James B Wills (born circa 1798 in Tennessee) ..."
  18. Senn, Ima Holder, James Buchanan Wills. I had several telephone interviews with Ima from 2000-2002. We discussed her family and Wiley's family. She had an incredible memory and she had "notes" about things she was afraid she would forget. I don't know what happened to her notes and I wish I had recorded our conversations. She is my grandmother.
  19. 1860 Federal Census, Texas, Bell, pg 324. age 63, Tennessee.
  20. Memorial and Biographical History of McLennan, Falls, Bell and Coryell Counties, Texas, (Chicago: The Lewis Publishing Company; 1893) pg 716. "The parents removed to Tennessee in an early day, and in 1825 to Missouri, and in 1840 to Texas, where the father died in 1872."
  21. 1860 Federal Census, Texas, Bell, pg 324. Amy Wills.
  22. Rutherford Co, TN, Marriage Book (TNGenWeb.org), James B Wills to Amy W Shackleford. [She has 1810 but it may be 1816.]
  23. Tennessee State Marriage Index, 1780-2002 (FamilySearch.org), Wills, James B. to Amy W Shackleford, 3 Jan 1810, Rutherford County.
  24. 1870 Federal Census, Texas, Milam, pg 306A. Elizabeth Wills.
  25. 1870 Federal Census, Texas, Milam, pg 306A.
  26. History of Ray County, Missouri, (Saint Louis, Missouri, Historical Company; 1881) pg 692-693. "Mrs. Cleavenger soon after died, and he was again married in 1823, to Miss Margaret Wills, daughter of James Wills, an early settler of Ray county."
  27. 1850 Federal Census, Missouri, Ray, ppg 69-70. age 50, Tennessee.
  28. History of Ray County, Missouri, (Saint Louis, Missouri, Historical Company; 1881) pg 692-693. "She was born in Rutherford county, Tennessee, January 1, 1801."
  29. 1850 Federal Census, Missouri, Ray, pg 69. John Clevenger.
  30. History of Ray County, Missouri, (Saint Louis, Missouri, Historical Company; 1881) pg 692-693. "Mrs. Cleavenger soon after died, and he was again married in 1823, to Miss Margaret Wills ..."

Notes:
  * I do not know for certain that the James Wills who is the father of MY James B Wills is the James who married Lillian BUT my grandmother told me that the B stood for Buchanan.
  * Moved to Montgomery Co. Va. in 1773. Served in the Rev. War toward the end. Moved to Davidson Co. TN along with several of the Buchanans in 1783. James and Lillian Buchanan Wills and James B's siblings ... plus some of the Shackelfords went to Missouri in 1820. One researcher on this line who is now deceased thought that he was probably an orphan who came with the Buchanans to Va., because they came from Chester Co. Penn. also. From Ireland?
  * Lived with David Wills in 1840.
  * Lived with John Clevenger in 1850.
  * On August 10, 1803 James Wills signed a petition favoring forming Rutherford Co. from Davidson Co. and Williamson Co.
  * James Wills served on the first Rutherford County court jury in the town of Jefferson on July 2, 1804.
  * Robert Ross and Nancy Wills, on 28 Nov 1804 applied for a marriage license. James Wills was surety. Notes: Robert Ross is my grandfather - know where he is buried. [Roy Newsom roy s newsom @ msn . com]
  * In the July Term 1811 James Wills was appointed as one of five executors of the estate of James Morton. On October 5, 1813 James Wills was mentioned in the estate of James Freeman. [Roy Newsom roy s newsom @ msn . com]
  * James is #98 in the National Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution (NSDAR)'s Patriot Index.
  * Lillian BUCHANAN died 8/17/1855, Clay Co, MO?

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