Wills, James

Born: 1805-1808 Pennsylvania

Flourished: 1847-1860 Fulton County, Illinois

Wills married Charlotte Smith in Fulton County, in 1841. He served as a town trustee in Canton, Illinois, in 1848. In 1860, Wills was farming in Canton and owned $1,600 worth of real estate, with a personal estate of $400.

History of Fulton County Illinois (Peoria, IL: Chas. C. Chapman, 1879), 528; Illinois Statewide Marriage Index, Fulton County, 3 December 1841, Illinois State Archives, Springfield, IL; U.S. Census Office, Seventh Census of the United States (1850), Canton, Fulton County, IL, 158; U.S. Census Office, Eighth Census of the United States (1860), Canton, Fulton County, IL, 9.