Today's stumbling block. I'm trying to find where Martha Willis lived after 1854 when she married James Welch. He appears in 1860 with a new wife Nancy in Shelby County, Texas but where did Martha go? Family legend says she died around 1800-1881 but we don't have anything to go on. Her daughter, Eliza Jane Welch, gives her birthplace as Joaquin, Texas, or possibly Logansport Louisiana. (They are only three miles apart and her father gives his occupation as a ferryman.)
One of Martha's brothers, Washington Franklin Willis married Emily Horn and they had three children in DeSoto Parish, Louisiana, Sarah in 1861, James in 1862 and George in 1867. By 1880 they had moved to Panola county in Texas.
The rest of the Willis family was in Bethany, Panola county in 1860 and then in Falls County, Texas in 1870. Martha's father was living with daughter Mary Williams in Shelby county Tx in 1880.
Ed: now where on earth did I get DeSoto Parish? I really have to start keeping better records. I spend way too much time looking things up again!
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