Lillis (Edgar) Inman (1798 - 1873)

Born 21 May 1798 in South Carolina, United States [uncertain]

Wife of Ezekial Inman — married 24 Feb 1816 in Williamson, Tennessee, United States

Descendants

Died 5 Aug 1873 at age 75 in Dent, Missouri, United States

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Biography

Lillis (sometimes listed as Lilley or Lilly) Edgar was born 21 May 1798, according to her gravestone decades later, and she listed South Carolina as her birthplace on at least two censuses. Sources list her parents as John Edgar and his wife, Mary.

By 1816, she was in Tennessee, where she and Ezekiel Inman married in Williamson County. They may have been living in Pulaski County, Missouri, in 1840, that year's census finding an Ezekeal Innman [sic] living there with a free white female aged 40 to 50. Lillis would have been 42 at the time, but the vague nature of the census makes it hard to be sure this is the same family.

Ezekiel was issued a land patents for properties in Dent County, Missouri, in 1848, 1849, 1853, 1859 and 1860. The 1860 census is really the first solid proof so far of Ezekiel and Lillis, finding her and Ezekiel living by themselves with one of their sons living on the neighboring property. By 1870, Ezekiel had died, and Lillis was living with an L.A. Wofford, 20, possibly a granddaughter.

Lillis died 5 Aug 1873 and buried along with her husband in Wofford Cemetery in Dent County.

Research Notes

Some researchers list her as Lillis Hester Edgar, but I haven't found the name Hester in primary sources so far.

Sources

• Marriage bond. United States. Williamson County, Tennessee. 24 Feb 1816. INMAN, Ezekiel and EDGAR, Lillis. Collection: Tennessee, County Marriages, 1796-1950. FamilySearch. https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QKHS-ZLQQ.

• Marriage registry. United States. Williamson County, Tennessee. 24 Feb 1816. INMAN, Ezekiel and EDGAR, Lillis. Williamson County Court Clerks Office - Marriage Records, 1:124. Collection: Tennessee Marriages, 1796-1950. FamilySearch. https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QKH3-C7GG.

• Census returns. 1840. United States. Pulaski County, Missouri. n.d. INMAN, Lillis inferred as the wife of Ezekiel Innman [sic]. P. 213, line 8. https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XHT3-SF3.

• Land patent. United States. Pulanski County, Missouri. 1 Mar 1860. INMAN, Ezekiel. No. 17581. Collection: General Land Office Records. U.S. Department of the Interior - Bureau of Land Management. https://glorecords.blm.gov/details/patent/default.aspx?accession=MO4060__.166&docClass=STA&sid=d5spetlq.xyn.

• Land patent. United States. Pulanski County, Missouri. 1 Dec 1853. INMAN, Ezekiel. No. 15018. Collection: General Land Office Records. U.S. Department of the Interior - Bureau of Land Management. https://glorecords.blm.gov/details/patent/default.aspx?accession=MO3650__.457&docClass=STA&sid=d5spetlq.xyn.

• Land patent. United States. Pulanski County, Missouri. 1 Feb 1849. INMAN, Ezekiel. No. 10135. Collection: General Land Office Records. U.S. Department of the Interior - Bureau of Land Management. https://glorecords.blm.gov/details/patent/default.aspx?accession=MO3560__.367&docClass=STA&sid=d5spetlq.xyn.

• Land patent. United States. Pulanski County, Missouri. 1 Feb 1849. INMAN, Ezekiel. No. 10134. Collection: General Land Office Records. U.S. Department of the Interior - Bureau of Land Management. https://glorecords.blm.gov/details/patent/default.aspx?accession=MO3560__.366&docClass=STA&sid=d5spetlq.xyn.

• Land patent. United States. Pulanski County, Missouri. 1 Mar 1848. INMAN, Ezekiel. No. 9552. Collection: General Land Office Records. U.S. Department of the Interior - Bureau of Land Management. https://glorecords.blm.gov/details/patent/default.aspx?accession=MO3550__.267&docClass=STA&sid=d5spetlq.xyn.

• Land patent. United States. Pulanski County, Missouri. 1 Oct 1845. INMAN, Ezekiel. No. 5126. Collection: General Land Office Records. U.S. Department of the Interior - Bureau of Land Management. https://glorecords.blm.gov/details/patent/default.aspx?accession=MO5260__.318&docClass=STA&sid=d5spetlq.xyn#patentDetailsTabIndex=0.

• Census returns. 1860. United States. Texas Township, Dent County, Missouri. 2 Jul. INMAN, Lillis in the household of Ezekiel Inman. P. 60, dwelling 378, family 384, line 13. https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MHZ9-GMF.

• Census returns. 1870. United States. Texas Township, Dent County, Missouri. 16 Jul. INMAN, Lilley [Lillis]. Sheet 614, p. 21, dwelling 138, family 138, line 26. https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:M46M-29H.

• Online memorial. United States. Dent County, Missouri. Wofford Cemetery. INMAN, Lillis. Find a Grave. https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/44810227/lillis-hester-inman.