Pike County AlArchives Photo Tombstone.....Willis, William W. [VA Grave Marker For Service In The War Of 1812] 
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Cemetery:           Baptist Rest Cemetery, Brundidge, AL
Name:               William W. [VA Grave Marker For Service In The War Of 1812] Willis

Date Of Photograph: 1984
Photo can be seen at:
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William W. Willis:

Birth: ca.1794
North Carolina
 
Death:  May 7, 1874
Brundidge
Pike County
Alabama

The Troy Messenger,(Troy, Alabama), May 21, 1874:

"A correspondent informs us of the death of a venerable and respected citizen 
of this county, Mr. W. W. Willis, which occurred on the 7th inst.,at his home 
near Brundidge. The deceased was in his eighty-first year, and for sixty-eight 
years of his life he was an exemplary member of the Baptist Church. He is 
reported as having been a man of sterling integrity and great firmness of 
character, and was possessed of many qualities which tended to endear him to 
friends and neighbors during his life time, and which will make his memory 
ever revered by those who now mourn his departure from earth."


Additional Comments:
William W. Willis (ca. 1794 - May 7, 1874) was a veteran of the War of 1812.

From Sept. 27, 1813 to March 10, 1814, William W. Willis served as a private 
in the Second Regiment, Capt. Henry Cox's Company with Col. James Jenkins 
commanding, of the Georgia Militia.

In March of 1987, Todd Bradford Willis,DDS of Waco, Texas joined the General 
Society of the War of 1812 (General Society #4467) on the service of 
William W. Willis.

His VA grave marker states:

William W. Willis, [ca.] 1794 - 1874, Georgia Militia, War of 1812. 

A Veterans Administration grave marker was acquired and placed at his 
gravesite at Baptist Rest Cemetery in Brundidge, AL in 1984 by Dr. T. Bradford 
Willis of Waco, TX. His original grave marker was broken and in several 
pieces; it was then placed as a footstone.
 
For more info. on the Willis family see The Heritage of Pike County, Alabama, 
2001.


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