Wills Family on Final Roll of Creeks (OK) Submitted by David Morgan dmorgan@efn.org ************************************************************************ USGENWEB ARCHIVES NOTICE: These electronic pages may NOT be reproduced in any format for profit or presentation by any other organization or persons. Persons or organizations desiring to use this material, must obtain the written consent of the contributor, or the legal representative of the submitter, and contact the listed USGenWeb archivist with proof of this consent. The submitter has given permission to the USGenWeb Archives to store the file permanently for free access. http://www.usgwarchives.net/ *********************************************************************** Mary Jane Wills was born in Robertson County, Tennessee, 14 April 1838. She was the second child born to William, Jr., and Mary "Polly" (Phillips) Wills. When Mary Jane was ten years old, her parents left Tennessee and went to the Creek Lands West. Not liking it there, Mary Jane's parents went to Texas and settled in Kaufman County. Then after 1850, they moved to Van Zandt County, Texas. Mary Jane wills married John A. O'Neal in Van Zandt County, Texas. John was born 12 September 1834. John O'Neal was a cattleman and built the first house in the town of Iola. That area later became Wills Point. John A. O'Neal died 10 December 1882 and is buried in the "Wills Family Plot" in the White Rose Cemetery at Van Zandt County, Texas. Mary Jane and John O'Neal had no children. Mary Jane helped to raise her brother, William E. H. Wills, III's, children. Mary Jane went to the Creek Nation and applied for Creek Nation citizenship for herself and her brother, William, and his children. Mary Jane (Wills) O'Neal and her brother, William H. Wills, III, and William's children were granted citizenship. Mary Jane remarried to W. G. Creswell, whose sisters had married two of Mary Jane's brothers. Mary Jane (Wills) O'Neal, Creswell's Creek Census Card follows: Dawes Name age sex DIB Father Mother No. Card No. 663 P.O. Mounds 13 Sept 1899 2190 Creswell, Mary J. 56 F 1/4 Wm. Wills Mary A. Reported dead Mary Jane (Wills) O'Neal, Creswell died 23 March 1912 and is buried next to her first husband, John A. O'Neal, in the Wills Family Plot in the White Rose Cemetery, Van Zandt County, Texas. W. G. Creswell, Mary Jane's second husband, died 1 September 1930 and is buried in the Wills Family Plot, next to Mary Jane. William E. H. Wills, III, was born in Robertson County, Tennessee, in 1844. He was the third child born to William, Jr., and Mary "Polly" (Phillips) Wills. William was four years old when his parents left Tennessee and went to the Creek Lands West. The family didn't stay in the Nation long and went on to Texas and settled in Kaufman County. After 1850, William's family moved to Van Zandt County, Texas, where William grew up. William married Narcissa J. Creswell in Van Zandt County, Texas, 9 August 1866. Narcissa Creswell was born in Alabama in November 1846. William and Narcissa and their children went to the Creek Nation, with William's sister, Mary Jane O'Neal, and applied for and were granted citizenship into the Creek Nation. Following is the Creek Census Card for William and his children: Dawes Name age sex DIB Father Mother No. Card 800 P.O. Mounds 13 Sept. 1899 2598 Wills, William H. 53 M 1/4 Wm. Wills Mary A. 2599 Albert G. son 16 M 1/8 No. 1 N J 2600 Bonnie dau 13 F 1/8 No. 1 N J 2601 Joe B. son 11 M 1/8 No. 1 N J Card No. 1227 P.O. Mounds 5 Dec. 1899 3951 Wills, John S. 29 M 1/8 Wm. H. Wills Narcessa New Born Card No. 727 P.O. Mounds 746 Wills, Arthur Rex 1 M 1/16 John S. Wills Eunice May Date of birth June 5, 1904 Card No. 826 P.O. Phoenix, Az 18 Sept. 1899 2687 White, Tennessee 21 F 1/8 Wm. H. Wills Narcessa 2688 Everett H. son 1 M 1/16 W. E. White No. 1 Card No. 664 P.O. Mounds 11 Aug. 1899 2191 Wills, Henry F. 27 M 1/8 Wm H Wills N J 2192 Lottie Ruth dau 1 F 1/16 No. 1 Mary A. Card No. 3686 P.O. Mounds 15 Nov 1902 9682 Wills, Buck H. 2 M 1/16 Henry F Wills Mary A. New Born Card No. 532 P.O. Mounds 522 Wills, Hazel Irene 1 F 1/16 Henry F Wills Mary A. Date of birth Aug 31, 1901 Minor Card No. 170 P.O. Mounds 125 Wills, Jack Harbert 2 M 1/16 Henry F Wills Mary A. Date of birth Sept 16 - 1905 William E. H. Wills, III, and Narcissa had ten children, but only seven were still living in 1900. I don't know when William E. H. or Narcissa (Creswell) Wills died or where they are buried. They are not buried in the Wills Family Plot of the White Rose Cemetery in Van Zandt County, Texas. In 1900 William and Narcissa were living in Sapulpa, Indian Territory. Jacob Biddle, a cousin and grandson of John Dallas Berryhill, was living with them as a boarder. --- The Story of John Berryhill and Elizabeth Derrisaw and Their Descendants This is an unpublished manuscript done by Thelma Nolen Cornfeld before her death in 1996. Her daughter Barbara gave me permission to put her research online. David Morgan