Genealogy Richard Remmé, The Hague, Netherlands » Edward Turpin Willis (1894-1975)

Personal data Edward Turpin Willis 

Sources 1, 2, 3, 4

Household of Edward Turpin Willis

(1) He is married to Virginia Louise Byrne.

They got married February 1921 at Falls Church, Virginia, he was 27 years old.


Child(ren):

  1. Edward Turpin Willis  1922-2002 
  3. Mary Katherine Willis  1929-2007 


(2) He is married to Gladys Yowell.

They got married in the year 1935 at Winston-Salem, North Carolina, he was 40 years old.


Child(ren):



Notes about Edward Turpin Willis

Kate Willis remembers her father telling her how he and his sisters Isabelle and Lucy were put on a horse and sent to Lignum to school.  The family eventually moved to Lignum to make this easier.
When he was very little his mother and a kinswoman both bought cloth from the same bolt at the Lignum store to make dresses.  Coming out of church one day someone spoke to Turpin.  He was so shy that he grabbed his mother's voluminous skirt and wrapped himself in it.  Then he heard a strange voice coming from the owner of the skirt, "who is that?"  It was not his mother.  Turpin shrieked and ran to look for his mother
When Turpin was a young boy he asked one of his older brother to buy Christmas presents for the family.  He gave him a list that read as follows:  "Something nice for mama - 5 cents, something nice for papa - 5 cents, something nice for Lucy - 5 cents.....
Once when Turp was six or seven and the family was still living at Foxneck he went to spend the night across the river at Cousin Willy Gordon's.  In the middle of the night Turpin decided he wanted to go home, but it had been raining and the river had risen making it impassible.  Turp cried all night. Turpin was always a homebody.  Later when he would attend cattle conventions, he would make his plans so as to spend the fewest nights away from home.  Told by Katie Willis to Mark Willis Ballard.
Turpin bought his brother Hugh's truck farm in West Virginia.  After running it for a while he bought Rotherwood in Culpeper because he wanted to come back home.   The land near the town of Culpeper was better farm land than around Lignum.
He sold his dairy herd of seventy cows in the 1970's because he would have had to double the size of the herd and build a new milking parlor make it economically feasible. ; He called the next year "the silent spring."  ; He bought a few beef cattle just to keep him company.
He put numerous nephews and nieces through college (including Uncle Hugh's children) and supported a baptist missionary.

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Ancestors (and descendant) of Edward Turpin Willis

Hugh Goodwin Hiter
1819-????
Susan Hart Harris
1828-1890

Edward Turpin Willis
1894-1975

(1) 1921

Virginia Louise Byrne
1893-1932

Edward Turpin Willis
1922-2002
William Henry Willis
1925-1947
Mary Katherine Willis
1929-2007
(2) 1935

Gladys Yowell
1899-2001

Bessie Turpin Willis
1937-1937
Emily Churchill Willis
1940-1990

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Relationship Edward Turpin Willis

Sources

  1. "Mark Willis Ballard (gedcom, rootsweb)," supplied by Ballard, 2013., Mark Willis Ballard (gedcom), compiled by Mark Willis Ballard [(E-ADDRESS) FOR PRIVATE USE\,]
  2. Willis, Gordon, Garnett & Allied Familes Reunion Journal, Vol. I, Number 10, August 8, 1982
    Source Media Type: Magazine, Willis, Gordon, Garnett & Allied Familes Reunion Journal, Vol. I, Number 10, August 8, 1982    , H / Not Given
  3. Ballard-Willis Family Tree., rootsweb, Mark Willis-Ballard, Willis-Ballard, Markrootsweb
  4. "Ballard-Willis Family Tree," database, http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com , Ballard-Willis Family Tree, Mark W. Ballard

Historical events

Birthday February 1, 1894

  • The temperature on February 1, 1894 was about 1.3 °C. There was 0.3 mm of rain. The airpressure was 75 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 92%. Source: KNMI
  • Koningin Wilhelmina (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1890 till 1948 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
  • Regentes Emma (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1890 till 1898 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
  • In The Netherlands , there was from August 21, 1891 to May 9, 1894 the cabinet Van Tienhoven, with Mr. G. van Tienhoven (unie-liberaal) as prime minister.
  • In The Netherlands , there was from May 9, 1894 to July 27, 1897 the cabinet Roëll, with Jonkheer mr. J. Roëll (oud-liberaal) as prime minister.
  • In the year 1894: Source: Wikipedia
    • The Netherlands had about 5.1 million citizens.
    • February 7 » The Cripple Creek miner's strike, led by the Western Federation of Miners, begins in Cripple Creek, Colorado, United States.
    • March 25 » Coxey's Army, the first significant American protest march, departs Massillon, Ohio for Washington, D.C.
    • April 14 » The first ever commercial motion picture house opened in New York City using ten Kinetoscopes, a device for peep-show viewing of films.
    • June 23 » The International Olympic Committee is founded at the Sorbonne in Paris, at the initiative of Baron Pierre de Coubertin.
    • June 28 » Labor Day becomes an official US holiday.
    • July 25 » The First Sino-Japanese War begins when the Japanese fire upon a Chinese warship.

Day of death April 24, 1975

  • The temperature on April 24, 1975 was between 5.5 °C and 13.5 °C and averaged 8.9 °C. There was 0.3 hours of sunshine (2%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the north. Source: KNMI
  • Koningin Juliana (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from September 4, 1948 till April 30, 1980 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
  • In The Netherlands , there was from Friday, May 11, 1973 to Monday, December 19, 1977 the cabinet Den Uyl, with Drs. J.M. den Uyl (PvdA) as prime minister.
  • In the year 1975: Source: Wikipedia
    • The Netherlands had about 13.6 million citizens.
    • May 30 » European Space Agency is established.
    • July 5 » Arthur Ashe becomes the first black man to win the Wimbledon singles title.
    • September 16 » Papua New Guinea gains independence from Australia.
    • September 16 » The first prototype of the Mikoyan MiG-31 interceptor makes its maiden flight.
    • September 24 » Southwest Face expedition members become the first persons to reach the summit of Mount Everest by any of its faces, instead of using a ridge route.
    • November 12 » The Comoros joins the United Nations.


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