Obituaries: Jacob Willis, 1861, Winn Parish, LA
Submitted by Greggory E. Davies, 120 Ted Price Lane, Winnfield, LA 71483
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From: July 27, 1861 Tennessee Baptist

Contributed by Tommy Joe Willis

MEMOIRS

JACOB WILLIS

Died at his residence in Winn Parish, LA, the 12th day of April, 1861, in the
76th year of his age.  The subject of this notice was born in Craven County,
North Carolina the 31st day of May, 1785 and moved to Warren County, Georgia
in 1802.  He married Sarah Rogers, the daughter of Thomas and Nancy Rogers in
September, 1808 (sic 17 September 1809).  He was baptized in the fellowship of
Providence Baptist Church in 1805 and in 1818 he moved to Covington County,
Mississippi, and he put his letter into Ebenezer Church,, and in 1820 he was
ordained a deacon.  In 1845 he moved to Winn Parish, La., and put his letter
in the Hebron Church in which he lived up to the time of his death.  He lived
a consistent Baptist fifty-six years, and served as a deacon forty-one years. 
Surely his reward was above.

F. E. W.

(Transcribed 2-24-1987 from microfilm at the Historical Commission, Southern
Baptist Convention, 901 Commerce St., Nashville, TN by Walter H. Ward.