Nollie Ruth Willis was born in October of 1880 in Makanda, Jackson County, Illinois to John H. Willis and Mary Francis (Rushing) Willis and she is listed with her parents (and two siblings) on the 1900 Census.[1] She married George W. Lewis on September 17, 1905 in Jackson County, Arkansas.[2] They are listed together in Woodruff, Arkansas on the 1920 Census.[3] On both: the 1930 Census[4] and the 1940 Census[5] she is listed as divorced with one son; William Orlando Lewis in her household. She passed away in December of 1965 at the age of 85 in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.[6]
Fact: Residence (19 Dec 1895) Russell, White, Arkansas
Fact: Residence (1900) Liberty & Russell Townships Bradford & Russell towns, White, Arkansas, United States
Fact: Residence (1920) De View, Woodruff, Arkansas, United States
Fact: Residence (1930) Liberty Township, White, Indiana, United States
Fact: Residence (1935) Bald Knob, White, Arkansas
Fact: Residence (1940) Wilson, Wilson City, Carter, Oklahoma, United States
Fact: Residence Bradford, White, Arkansas
Sources
↑ "United States Census, 1900," database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:M3F8-BB1 : accessed 13 February 2021), Mollie Willis in household of John Willis, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) 152, sheet 10B, family 210, NARA microfilm publication T623 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1972.); FHL microfilm 1,240,080.
↑ "United States Census, 1930," database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XMG5-WRH : accessed 13 February 2021), Nallie Lewis, Liberty Township, White, Indiana, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) ED 44, sheet 6B, line 97, family 119, NARA microfilm publication T626 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 2002), roll 98; FHL microfilm 2,339,833.
↑ "United States Census, 1940," database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:VBJJ-BTS : 5 January 2021), Nallie Lewis, Wilson, Carter, Oklahoma, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) 10-38, sheet 5A, line 14, family , Sixteenth Census of the United States, 1940, NARA digital publication T627. Records of the Bureau of the Census, 1790 - 2007, RG 29. Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 2012, roll 3281.
↑ Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com : accessed 13 February 2021), memorial page for Nollie Willis Lewis (18 Oct 1880–31 Dec 1965), Find a Grave Memorial no. 38003118, citing Arlington Memory Gardens, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma County, Oklahoma, USA ; Maintained by shirley tauer (contributor 46946720) .
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