My Great-uncle Henry Elwa Willis

(b. Oct. 6, 1867; d. Jan. 18, 1945) Henry Elwa Willis was the eldest of eleven children of Daniel Hubbard Willis Jr. and Julia Ann Graham Willis. He was born nine months and one day after their wedding day. He was a farmer and cattleman. He married Sarah F. Duplissey on December 15, 1890. Henry Elwa Willis died of pneumonia and is buried at the Paul Cemetery in Lecompte, La. Henry Elwa Willis and Sarah F. Duplissey had the following eight children: Clarence I. Willis (b. Jan. 18, 1892; d. Dec. 4, 1940), Viola Willis (b. Dec. 28, 1893; d. Dec. 14, 1973), Elbert K. Willis (b. Feb. 26, 1897; d. Dec. 19, 1974), Henry Willis (b. Mar. 30, 1899; d. Sept. 29, 1977), Mae Willis (b. May 1, 1902), Kit Carson Willis (b. May 8, 1905), Bessie Willis (b. July 8, 1908), and Frank Willis (b. Dec. 2, 1915).