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View Tree for Edith Grace WillisEdith Grace Willis (b. April 26, 1886, d. 1960)

Edith Grace Willis (daughter of George Henry Willis and Julia Emma Austin) was born April 26, 1886, and died 1960 in Newport, NH.

 Includes NotesNotes for Edith Grace Willis:
Edith Grace Willis's birth certificate has her born as one Gracie Willis, parents George and Julia Willis. Julia also had been married 1st to Frank Warren Orne, whom she had 3 children with, Mary, Bertha, Mabel Orne. Frank died on March 04, 1885.
Four months later George and Julia were married on July 30, 1885, on April 26, 1886 Edith Grace Willis is born. George Willis seems to disappear.
Just two years later Julia Willis is noted to have married James Martin Comstock, this marriage was not noted in the Comstock Family Record, in this volume, because of uncertainties with respect to it.
In a 1900 Gilsum census record Julia lives with husband James Comstock, listed as a servant,and dau. Edith Grace Willis, but none of her children with Frank Orne.
In the 1900 Alstead census Julia's father Kendall Austin is shown living with one Cella Putney from NY as a servent and one Edith G. as a border. Both Edith's(or same)are of the same age from there listed birth date.

My Grandmother Della Bates handed down few words of this but from what I am told is that George and Julia were adoptive parents of Edith, not her true birth Parents or possible just one not the other.
Della mentioned the surname Norcross.
Della told stories of Edith's mother being a full Abenaki/medicine women.
There has been some stories of her being blind.
Betty Nash, Della Bates daughter says she remembers her grandmother Edith taking her in the woods and teaching them of root and plant collection with medicinal purposes.
Betty also remembers Edith having a Native American full head dress that when worn went to the floor. She kept it in a trunk in her home in Newport.
We have yet to find Edith Grace Willis's Lineage...


More About Edith Grace Willis:
Burial: Unknown, Acworth, NH.
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