More Willises - Pt. 3

By 1870 some of the Willis family had moved to Marlin, Falls County, Texas. William and Ann were there with three children. Wesley is there too with wife Agnes and seven children. By 1872 Washington had joined them (according to the 1872-1876 tax rolls.)

In 1872 a daughter, Eliza Van Buren had married and had at least one child in Shelby County, Texas.

Sometime between 1870-1880 Ann died. William is listed on the 1800 census as a widower and living with his widowed daughter Mary Williams in Shelby County. In the “Pettey's of East Texas” it states that William was buried in Corrine Cemetery in Jacksonville, Cherokee County, TX but I have found no record of this.

Washington and his family returned to Panola county by 1880. He died in 1894 according to a pension application. 

The pension application led me to discover that Washington's wife, Emily had died in Panola county and he remarried Sarah A..... in 1888. She was the one applying for the pension.

His brother, Wesley also remarried a Mary in 1875 sometime after Agnes Kent died. Wesley and Mary had three more children, Ana, Thomas and Alice. He died in Decatur, TX in 1880.