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

Données personnelles Edward Turpin Willis 

• Il est né le 1 février 1894 dans Fox Neck, Culpeper Co., Virginia.
• Il est décédé le 24 avril 1975 dans Culpeper, Virginia, il avait 81 ans.
• Il est enterré dans Masonic Cemetery, Culpeper, Virginia.
• Un enfant de Eugene Harrison Willis et Elizabeth Young Hiter
• Cette information a été mise à jour pour la dernière fois le 4 décembre 2022.

Famille de Edward Turpin Willis

(1) Il est marié avec Virginia Louise Byrne.

Ils se sont mariés février 1921 à Falls Church, Virginia, il avait 27 ans.

Enfant(s):

1. Edward Turpin Willis  1922-2002 
2. William Henry Willis  1925-1947
3. Mary Katherine Willis  1929-2007 

(2) Il est marié avec Gladys Yowell.

Ils se sont mariés en l'an 1935 à Winston-Salem, North Carolina, il avait 40 ans.

Enfant(s):

1. Bessie Turpin Willis  1937-1937
2. Emily Churchill Willis  1940-1990

Notes par 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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