When Thornton Isaac Wills was born on 16 August 1851, in Kentucky, United States, his father, Austin B Wills, was 33 and his mother, Mary Jane Gordon, was 33. He married Mary Elizabeth Wade on 19 March 1872, in Nicholas, Kentucky, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 2 daughters. He lived in Magisterial District 1, Clark, Kentucky, United States in 1900 and Winchester, Clark, Kentucky, United States for about 20 years. He died on 2 December 1930, in Lexington, Fayette, Kentucky, United States, at the age of 79, and was buried in Winchester, Clark, Kentucky, United States.
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Kentucky sided with the Union during the Civil War, even though it is a southern state.
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
Yellowstone National Park was given the title of the first national park by the U.S. Congress and signed into law by President Ulysses S. Grant. It is also believed to be the first national park in the world.
English and German: variant of Will with genitival -s.
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