T.G.A. Wllis

T.G.A. Willis

Full Name: Theodore Gustavus Adolphus Willis
Date of birth: August 5, 1822
Date of death: December 22, 1886

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Chamber District Dates of Service Legislatures Party City/County Note Counties in District
H 15 Jan 11, 1881 - Jan 9, 1883 17th (1) (2) (3)   Greenback Troupe / Smith   Smith

(1) "The republicans supported the greenbackers, and the republicans and greenbackers elected Willis, greenbacker, to the legislature," p. 1, 11/17/1880. Galveston Daily News.
(2) Greenbacker, 11/17/1880, p. 2. Galveston Daily News.
(3) Greenbacker. Pocket Directory of the Seventeenth Legislature of Texas, 1881.

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House District 15
Jan 11, 1881 - Jan 9, 1883
Legislatures: 17th (1) (2) (3)  
Party: Greenback
Home City/County: Troupe / Smith
Counties in district: Smith

(1) "The republicans supported the greenbackers, and the republicans and greenbackers elected Willis, greenbacker, to the legislature," p. 1, 11/17/1880. Galveston Daily News.
(2) Greenbacker, 11/17/1880, p. 2. Galveston Daily News.
(3) Greenbacker. Pocket Directory of the Seventeenth Legislature of Texas, 1881.

Biographical Information top

Military Service Notes

  • T.G.A. Willis, Acting Assistant Quartermaster and Acting Quartermaster, Company F, 12th Regiment, Texas Cavalry (Parson's Mounted Volunteers). Civil War Soldiers and Sailors System.
  • T.G.A. Willis, Texas, Captain, PACS [Provisional Army of the Confederate States], A.Q.M. [Assistant Quarter Master], 12th Texas Cavalry Regiment. FamilySearch United States Confederate Officers Card Index, 1861-1865.
  • TWELFTH TEXAS CAVALRY. "The Twelfth Texas Cavalry served in the Trans-Mississippi as part of Parsons's Brigade throughout the war . . . [including] Company F, the Ellis Rangers, made up of the companies of the Texas Mounted Guards from Ellis County and the Texas Mounted Rangers from Parker County." Handbook of Texas Online.
  • T.G.A. Willis, quartermaster, "cavalry regiment organized in Ellis County Aug. 1861 which was known as 12th Texas Cavalry Parsons Brigade." "Parson's Brigade," Texas Genealogical Records, Ellis County, Volume 7, 1800-1955, p. 156, crediting Nicholas P. Sims Library. Portal to Texas History (University of North Texas Libraries).

Other Resources

  • T.G.A. Willis, residence in Smith County, Texas, Agriculture schedule, enumeration date 8/8/1880.
    Probate records from Smith County, Texas, include document filed by "Theodore G.A. Willis, of the County of Cherokee" for his daughter Amelia Josephine Hill, dated 4/7/1871, witnessed at Waxahachie, Ellis County, 4/10/1872, and confirmed in the Deed Records of Ellis County, 9/5/1888. Also includes documents filed In the Matter of the Estate of T.G.A. Willis, deceased, in Smith County, Texas, 10/8/1888. U.S., Selected Federal Census Non-Population Schedules, 1850-1880; Texas, U.S., Wills and Probate Records, 1833-1974. Ancestry.com.
  • Census of 1860 - T.G.A. Willis, 7th Division, Ellis County, age 37, born circa 1823 in Kentucky, farmer, living in household with A.M. Willis.
    Census of 1870 - Theodore G. Willis, Cherokee County, age 48, born circa 1822 in Kentucky, farmer, living in household with Ann Willis. FamilySearch. 1860 1870
  • T.G.A. Willis, postoffice Troupe, Smith County, farmer, nativity Kentucky, age 58 (born circa 1823). Pocket Directory of the Seventeenth Legislature of Texas, 1881.
  • Notice of nomination, "Smith," Galveston Daily News, 8/21/1880, p. 4. "Capt. Willis, of Troup, is the greenback nominee for the legislature in Smith county." Portal to Texas History (University of North Texas Libraries).
  • Theodore Gustavus Adolphus Willis, birth date 8/5/1822 in Lincoln County, Kentucky; death date 12/22/1886 in Troup, Smith County, Texas. Confederate States Army, Captain, Farrar's Company Independent Texas Mounted Guards, enlisted 6/16/1861. Member of the 17th Legislature. First Families Certificate application, Texas State Genealogical Society. Stephen F. Austin State University, East Texas Research Center.

Photographs

  • Photograph. T.G.A. Wllis, 17th Legislature, Texas State Library and Archives Commission

Composite Photographs on Display in the Capitol

Committee Information top

17th R.S. - 1881
Indian Affairs  
Public Buildings and Grounds  
Towns and City Corporations  

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