ELIAS WILLIS
Elias Willis, born in Hagerstown, Maryland, on the 23d of January, 1826, is the son of Isaac Willis, a native of Maryland. When a child, Elias emigrated with his parents to Belmont county, Ohio, where his father died in 1864. In 1849, Elias went to Bureau county, Illinois, and was there engaged in farming, and was there married in March, 1853, to Mary Jane Murray, and by whom he has had three children---Charles I., Alfred H. and Mary E. Mr. Willis enlisted in 1864, in company F, One Hundred and Fifty-first Illinois Volunteers, and served one year. After his discharge, he moved to Poweshiek county, Iowa, and was there engaged in farming, until 1871, when he came to Cass county, and bought one hundred and twenty acres of land on section 25, Massena township, and has one of the finest farms in the township.
Contributed by Lisa Varnes-Rex from "History of Cass County, Iowa. Together With Sketches of its Towns, Villages and Townships, Educational, Civil, Military and Political History: Portraits of Prominent Persons, and Biographies of Old Settlers and Representative Citizens." Springfield, Ill.: Continental Historical Company, 1884, pp. 782.
