The information I have about Edward (Edwin) Wills is very limited and comes primarily from census data. I have not been able to pinpoint his exact year of birth, his age varies from one census to another by just a couple of years. I am a descendant through his son John Harvey Wills. There is [...]
If you have explored your family history for more than about oh, a half hour or so, you quickly realize how fast things can get away from you in terms of keeping order. It starts out pretty simple, we are talking about family here, how hard can it be to keep track? Terribly difficult when [...]
John Harvey Wills, the father of my great grandmother Lottie Mae Wills, was born in Bedford County, Virginia according to his reporting in various census records. The 1900 census has him in the Cabin Creek District of Kanawha County WV. It gives his birth date as December of 1853 and his age as 46. At [...]
