Willis
Stephen
Blitch
Born about [location unknown]
Ancestors 
Son of Thomas Luke Blitch Sr.
and Ann (Marlow) Blitch
Brother of
Henry James Blitch [half], Ann Patience Blitch [half], Thomas Luke Blitch Jr. [half], Elizabeth Lydia Blitch [half], Nathaniel Allen Blitch [half], Caroline Mathilda Blitch [half], Eleanor Jane Blitch, Georgia Ann Blitch, William Morton Blitch Sr., Susanna Tabitha Blitch and Emma Angelica Blitch
Husband of
Florence Emma (Lanier) Malphus
— married
[date unknown] [location unknown]
Father of
May Cassie (Blitch) Walker and Eva Blitch
Died about
at about age 37
[location unknown]
Profile last modified
| Created 23 Dec 2013
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Biography
Willis was born in 1845. He was the son of Thomas Blitch and Ann Marlow.
William married Florence Lanier. In 1880, they were living in Screven County, Georgia. William was working as a merchant.[1]
He passed away in 1883. Burial was in the Union Baptist Church Cemetery Newington, Screven County, Georgia.[2]
Sources
- ↑ "United States Census, 1880," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:M8GY-9WN : 11 August 2017), Willis S Blitch, 1880; citing enumeration district ED 86, sheet 258C, NARA microfilm publication T9 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d), roll 0164; FHL microfilm 1,254,164.
- ↑ Find A Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com : accessed 16 February 2019), memorial page for Willis Stephen Blitch (6 Nov 1846–16 Nov 1883), Find A Grave: Memorial #24769003, citing Union Baptist Church Cemetery, Newington, Screven County, Georgia, USA ; Maintained by jrpv (contributor 46972216) .
Acknowledgments
Thank you to Donna Blitch for creating Blitch-90 on 23 Dec 13. Click the Changes tab for the details on contributions by Donna and others.
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DNA Connections
It may be possible to confirm family relationships with Willis by comparing test results with other carriers of his Y-chromosome or his mother's mitochondrial DNA. However, there are no known yDNA or mtDNA test-takers in his direct paternal or maternal line. It is likely that these autosomal DNA test-takers will share some percentage of DNA with Willis:
It may be possible to confirm family relationships with Willis by comparing test results with other carriers of his Y-chromosome or his mother's mitochondrial DNA. However, there are no known yDNA or mtDNA test-takers in his direct paternal or maternal line. It is likely that these autosomal DNA test-takers will share some percentage of DNA with Willis:
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~0.78%
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On the 8th of November, 1863, at Rosedew (Rose Dhu), near Savannah, Willis S. BLITCH enlisted as a private in Company I, the Georgia Rangers, 54th Regiment of the Volunteer Georgia Infantry (an Effingham County unit). The company roll for December of 1863, the last one on file, shows him as being present. On the 12th of September, 1864, he was admitted to Ocmulgee Hospital in Macon, Georgia, with diarrhea, and he was transferred to an Augusta, Georgia, hospital on the following day. There is no further record on file.