Jul-28-2018                   
             Husband: Robert Lee Willis    
                Born: Apr- 9-1869           1,2
                Died: Nov-25-1922          in Harrison Co, WV  3,2
              Buried:                      in IOOF Cemetery, Salem, Harrison Co, WV  4
              Census: 1870, 1880            5
              Father: James Edwin Willis   (1839 - 1909) 
              Mother: Julia Ann Davis   (1843 - 1903) 
                Wife: Emily Jane Davis     
             Married: Dec- 4-1898          in Doddridge Co, WV  6
                Born: Nov-29-1868           6 (see note 1)
                Died: Nov- 1-1920          in Salem, Harrison Co, WV  3,7
              Buried:                      in IOOF Cemetery, Salem, Harrison Co, WV  4,3
             Resided: 1913                 in Wetzel Co, WV  8
              Census: 1870                 in West Union District, Doddridge Co, WV  
              Father: Samuel Preston Davis   (1835 - 1895) 
              Mother: Melissa Williams   (1846 - 1911) 
           M Child 1: Carl Edwin Willis      
                Born: Aug-12-1901           9
       Never married:                        
           F Child 2: Edna Pearl Willis      
                Born: Jun-11-1904           9
             Resided:                      in Salem, WV  9
             Husband: Lynn Swiger  

Sources:
(1) Death Record - Birth date calculated from age at death. 
(2) Headstone (year only) 
(3) WV State Dept of Health, Div of Vital Statistics, Death Certificate (http://www.wvculture.org/vrr/va_dcsearch.aspx) 
(4) Cemeteries of Tenmile District, Harrison County, WV, Harrison County Genealogical Society, Clarksburg, WV (1989, 
revised 1995) 
(5) 1870 Census, Doddridge County, WV (New Milton Twp). 
(6) Susie Davis Nicholson, Davis - The Settlers of Salem, West Virginia, Gordon Printing Co, Strasburg OH, 1979 (Revised & 
Enlarged) < www.wvgenweb.org/harrison/books.htm >, p. 97. 
(7) Headstone. 
(8) Obituary of brother. 
(9) Susie Davis Nicholson, Davis - The Settlers of Salem, West Virginia, Gordon Printing Co, Strasburg OH, 1979 (Revised & 
Enlarged) < www.wvgenweb.org/harrison/books.htm >, p. 159. 

Event Notes
Note (1) Birth date on headstone is Nov 29 1867.  But "Davis - The Settlers of Salem,
WV," p. 97, reports it as Nov 29 1868.  She was age 1 in the 1870 Census,
enumerated in June of that year.







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