Wesley was the oldest of about nine children of William Franklin and Ann J. Stanley Willis. He was born in Georgia in November of 1832. By 1850 the family was living in Alabama. In 1852 he married Agnes Kent. In 1855 they were moving westward and had their second child in Louisiana. They were in Panola County, Texas in 1857 where Wesley was appointed Postmaster. He and his family are enumerated on the 1860 census for McMillan, Panola County where he is listed as a teamster.
From what I've been able to find, during the civil war it seems he was enlisted in Company F, Griffon's Battalion Texas Infantry around 1863. In Jan 1864 he was on daily duty for "having no shoes." On March 20, 1864 his card reads that at Vermillion, LA he deserted from furlough.
In 1870 the family was living in Marlin, Falls County, Texas next door to his parents and family. Sometime between 1870 and 1875 his wife, Agnes died.
In 1875 Wesley married Mary A Stevenson in Louisiana. She was one of three sisters who married a Willis man. One husband was Robert, Wesley's brother and the other was Berry K. Willis, Wesley's cousin.
In 1880 they were living in Wise County, TX. In 1890 they had an 18 year old nephew and a 21 year old son in law living with them. I've not been able to find out who these boys were.
Wesley was a brother of my 2X great grandmother, Martha Willis WELCH, mother of Eliza Jane Welch PETTEY.
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