Contra Costa-Napa County CA Archives Biographies.....Wills, T. N. 1822 - 
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Author: W. A. Slocum & Co., Publishers (1882)

T. N. WILLS.—The subject of this sketch, whose portrait appears in this work, is
a native of Muhlenburg county, Kentucky; was born April 22, 1822. When five
years of age his parents moved to Illinois, where our subject was educated, his
occupation being that of farming. April 13, 1863, Mr. Wills, accompanied by his
wife and six children, in company with a train of twenty-two wagons, started for
the Golden State. After a tiresome journey of five months across the plains,
including the loss of a daughter, who was buried at Independence Rock, they
arrived in Sacramento. Staying there but a few days, he proceeded to Napa
county, where he was engaged in farming till the Fall of 1868, when he removed
to this county and purchased his present valuable property of two hundred and
eighty acres, adjoining the town of Antioch. He is still engaged in farming,
honored and respected by the community in which he resides. Mr. Wills was thrice
married; first in Illinois, to Miss Mary Wristen, a native of Kentucky. By this
union there were five children, three of whom are living: Melvina, Sylvester and
Oliver. His second marriage, to Mrs. Amanda Byer, a native of Kentucky, also
occured in Illinois. By this union there were nine children, of which five are
living: Alice, Annie, Jennie, Amarilla and Ida. The third marriage, to Miss
Almina Saddlemire, a native of New York, was in San Francisco. By this union
they have two living children: Clarence and Emma.

Additional Comments:
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HISTORY OF CONTRA COSTA COUNTY,
CALIFORNIA,
INCLUDING ITS GEOGRAPHY, GEOLOGY, TOPOGRAPHY, CLIMATOGRAPHY AND DESCRIPTION;
TOGETHER WITH A RECORD OF THE MEXICAN GRANTS; THE BEAR FLAG WAR; THE MOUNT
DIABLO COAL FIELDS; THE EARLY HISTORY AND SETTLEMENT, COMPILED FROM THE MOST
AUTHENTIC SOURCES; THE NAMES OF ORIGINAL SPANISH AND MEXICAN PIONEERS; FULL
LEGISLATIVE HISTORY OF THE COUNTY; SEPARATE HISTORY OF EACH TOWNSHIP, SHOWING
THE ADVANCE IN POPULATION AND AGRICULTURE;
ALSO,
Incidents of Pioneer Life; and Biographical Sketches
OF EARLY AND PROMINENT SETTLERS AND REPRESENTATIVE MEN;
AMD OF ITS TOWNS, VILLAGES, CHURCHES, SECRET SOCIETIES, ETC.
ILLUSTRATED.
SAN FRANCISCO: W. A. SLOCUM & CO., PUBLISHERS
1882.



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