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Edmund Terrill Willis, Jr. (Adair County, Kentucky, farmer and judge)

b. 1808?

Adair County, Kentucky, farmer and judge. Adair County, Kentucky, native. Son of Edmund Terrill Willis, Sr. Married to Nancy A. B. Willis. Father of S. H. B. Willis, A. G. Willis, Harriet F. Willis, Hershel P. Willis, Joseph P. Willis, Mary V. Willis, Martha C. Willis, William T. Willis, Frances Willis, Benjamin F. Willis, and Nancy Willis. Farmer in Adair County in 1850. Owned sixteen enslaved persons in Adair County in 1850. Presiding judge in Adair County in 1860. Owned seventeen enslaved persons in Adair County in 1860.

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White

Bibliography

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Adair County, District 2, p. 60A.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Adair County, District 1, p. 172.

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Adair County, Second District, p. 24.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Adair County, First District, p. 5A.

Find A Grave, "Edmund Terrill Willis, Jr. (1808-1866)," Memorial #180914277, http://www.findagrave.com/memorial/180914277 (accessed May 20, 2020).

Citation

Willis, Edmund Terrill, Jr.. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/S32209182 (November 12, 2026).

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