When Sarah Ellen Willis was born in September 1860, in Michigan, United States, her father, Thomas S Willis, was 31 and her mother, Anna M Lamb, was 30. She married Harvey Elias Taylor on 23 May 1880, in Bangor, Van Buren, Michigan, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 4 daughters. She lived in Geneva Township, Van Buren, Michigan, United States in 1900. She died on 27 March 1910, in Bangor, Van Buren, Michigan, United States, at the age of 49, and was buried in Bangor, Van Buren, Michigan, United States.
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Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
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variant of Will with genitival -s. This surname represents a retention of the second syllable, introduced by the addition of the Middle English genitival suffix -es, which would have been pronounced in the Middle English period. Compare Wills . In some cases the name is a variant of Willey , with genitival or post-medieval excrescent -s.
variant of Willows .
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