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- [S104] Cocke County, Tennessee, and its People, Cocke County Heritage Book Committee, (Walsworth Publishing, 1992), 286.
- [S112] Census, 1930.
me: Viola Willis
Event: CENSUS
Event Date: 1930
Event Place: District 01, Cocke, Tennessee
Gender: Female
Age: 16
Marital Status: Single
Race: White
Birthplace: Tennessee
Estimated Birth Year: 1914
Immigration Year:
Relationship to Head of Household: Daughter
Father's Birthplace: North Carolina
Mother's Birthplace: North Carolina
Enumeration District Number: 0002
Family Number: 86
Sheet Number and Letter: 5B
Line Number: 53
NARA Publication: T626, roll 2238
Film Number: 2341972
Digital Folder Number: 4548152
Image Number: 00040
Household Gender Age
Parent James W Willis M 44
Parent Anna M Willis F 29
Viola Willis F 16
Lucy Willis F 14
Ray Willis M 12
Lenettie Willis F 7
Rachel Willis F 6
Ephrem Willis M 3
Bula Willis F 1
Virlie Willis F 0
- [S24] The Newport Plain Talk, (http://www.newportplaintalk.com), 13 Jan 2006.
James Monroe Willis obituary
- [S142] Newspaper Article, Hearld Journal (Spartanburg, SC), 6 Mar 2004.
Mrs. Viola Willis Fox, 91, of Marion, passed away on Friday, March 5, 2004, at Autumn Care of Marion. Mrs. Fox was born in Cocke County, TN on May 31, 1912 and was the daughter of the late James Wiley Willis and Kitty Woody Willis . She was a member of Rocky Pass Free Will Baptist Church and was a homemaker. Her husband, James N. Fox, daughter, Ima Jean Cuthbertson, great-grandson, Chad Cuthbertson, and a brother, Roy Willis , preceded her in death.
Mrs. Fox is survived by three children, Burnette Fox, of Marion, Shirley Jimison, of Marion, Nellie Dean Hunter, of Spartanburg, SC; seven sisters, Lucy Messer, Rachel Fox, Beulah Grigsby, Vista Walker, Kathleen Toby, and Thelma Hill, of TN , and Janette Young , of Hendersonville; four brother, Epharium Willis , Ua Willis , and Monroe Willis , all of TN ; eight grandchildren; 24 great-grandchildren; one great-great-grandchild; and a number of nieces and nephews.
Services will be held Sunday, March 7, 2004, at 3:00 p.m., at Rocky Pass Free Will Baptist Church, with Revs. Milton Hollifield and Billy Jones officiating. The family will receive friends on Saturday, March 6, 2004, from 6-8:00 p.m., at Westmoreland Funeral Home, where the body will remain until placed in the church 30 minutes prior to the service. Interment will be in Rocky Pass Free Will Baptist Church Cemetery.
In lieu of flowers, memorials may be made to Randy Taylor Scholarship Fund, 6988 Harmony Grove Road, Nebo, NC 28761.
Westmoreland Funeral Home is assisting the family.
An online register is available under OBITUARIES, at www.westmorelandfuneral.com.
- [S147] Find a Grave, (Memorial: 15890848).
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