Saluda Elizabeth CROSS

1837 - 1932  (94 years)

• Name	Saluda Elizabeth CROSS  [1]
  Born	9 Mar 1837	, , Missouri, USA   [2, 3, 4, 5, 6]
  Gender	Female
  Residence	15 May 1846	, , Texas, USA   [7]
  Residence	1855	Holland, Bell, Texas, USA   [8]
  Pension	1902
  Mexican War
  Index to Mexican War Pension Files, 1887-1926
  Census	1910	Killeen, Bell, Texas, USA
  ED 25, pg 8A
  John C Wills Head M 32 Texas Ida Wills Wife F 28 Texas Saluda Wills Mother F 73 Kansas
  Census	1920	, Bell, Texas, USA
  ED 30, pg 10A
  Precinct 7 Johnnie Wills Head M 42 Texas Ida Wills Wife F 38 Texas Inez Wills Dau F 9 Texas Marie Wills Dau F 5 Texas Sulada Wills Mother F 82 Missouri
  Census	1930	, Bell, Texas, USA
  ED 33, pg 6B
  Precinct 7 Virgil A Wills Head M 65 Texas Eula Wills Wife F 64 Tennessee Saludie E Wills Mother F 93 Mississippi
  Pension	21 Mar 1931	, Bell, Texas, USA
  Died	7 Jan 1932	Killeen, Bell, Texas, USA   [9]
  	Cause: Senility
  Buried	8 Jan 1932	, Bell, Texas, USA
  	Address: Pleasant Hill Cemetery Bell County Bell County, Texas
  Person ID	I3690	An Armstrong & A Heffernan
  Last Modified	19 Nov 2014

  
  

  Father	James Madison CROSS,   b. 1811, , , Virginia, USA ,   d. 1898, , , Texas, USA  (Age 87 years)
  Mother	Lucy BAILEY,   b. 1812, , , Virginia, USA ,   d. 1895, , , Texas, USA  (Age 83 years)
  Married	Abt 1835
  Family ID	F1750	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	William Riley WILLS,   b. 3 Aug 1828, , Clay, Missouri, USA ,   d. 27 Apr 1902, , Bell, Texas, USA  (Age 73 years)
  Married	10 Mar 1853	, Bell, Texas, USA   [10, 11]
  Children	1. Lucy A WILLS,   b. 22 May 1854, , Bell, Texas, USA ,   d. 21 May 1936, , Archer, Texas, USA  (Age 81 years)   2. Thomas A WILLS,   b. 3 Jan 1856, , Bell, Texas, USA ,   d. 19 May 1873, , Bell, Texas, USA  (Age 17 years)   3. Almyra L WILLS,   b. 1858, , Bell, Texas, USA ,   d. Mar 1891, , , Texas, USA  (Age 33 years)   4. Amy J WILLS,   b. 20 May 1860, , Bell, Texas, USA ,   d. 1 Mar 1953, Ozona, Crockett, Texas, USA  (Age 92 years)   5. James Riley WILLS,   b. 14 Feb 1863, , Bell, Texas, USA ,   d. 2 Jul 1937, , Scurry, Texas, USA  (Age 74 years)   6. Virgil Alexander WILLS,   b. 26 Jan 1865, , Bell, Texas, USA ,   d. 4 May 1934, Killeen, Bell, Texas, USA  (Age 69 years)   7. William David WILLS,   b. 1867, , Bell, Texas, USA ,   d. 1869, , Bell, Texas, USA  (Age 2 years)   8. Mary E WILLS,   b. May 1870, , Bell, Texas, USA ,   d. 1925, , , Texas, USA  (Age ~ 54 years)   9. Curtis Edward WILLS,   b. 16 Dec 1872, , Bell, Texas, USA ,   d. 1922, , Bell, Texas, USA  (Age 49 years)   10. Oliver Sampson WILLS,   b. 10 Jun 1875, Belton, Bell, Texas, USA ,   d. 22 May 1951, Fluvanna, Scurry, Texas, USA  (Age 75 years)   11. John Cross WILLS,   b. 16 Aug 1877, , , Texas, USA ,   d. 25 Mar 1961, Altadena, Los Angeles, California, USA  (Age 83 years)
  Last Modified	17 Nov 2014
  Family ID	F1555	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Notes

  Newspaper article: Mrs. Saluda Wills This is Mrs. Saluda Wills of Killeen who was recently honored with a birthday dinner by her children and other relatives. Mrs. Wills is 90 years of age. At the dinner were two of her brothers, Quinley Cross, 72, and V. A. Cross, 80, both of Brownwood. Mrs. Wills came from Mississippi to Texas at the age of 10 and married W. A. Wills at Holland when she was only 15. Her husband died about 20 years ago. She has lived in Bell County 80 years. Her surviving children are: Oliver, Jim, John and Verge Wills, the latter two of Killeen. Mrs. John C. Cox of Killeen and Mrs. Jones Miller of Ozona are daughters. Mrs. Wills is very active for her age. A favorite recreation is to do art work, fancy embroidering, etc., which she presents to her children as keepsakes. Mrs. Wills draws a Mexican War pension, of which ____ ____ ___ only two others in Texas are entitled to.

  
  

• Sources

  [S483] Pension File, Wills, Saluda Elizabeth #49469. [S352] History of McLennan, Falls, Bell and Coryell Counties, (Chicago: The Lewis Publishing Company; 1893), ppg 716-717. "Mr Wills was married in the spring of 1853, to Miss Saluda Cross, who was born March 9, 1837, and a daughter of James Cross" [S34] 1860 Bell, TX, pg 58 (324). age 23, Missouri [S19] 1850 Milam, TX, pg 16A, hh #420/436. age 13, Missouri [S483] Pension File, Wills, Saluda Elizabeth #49469. "age 94 March 9, 1837" date 2/7/1931 "I was born March 9, 1836, and will, therefore, be 94 years of age on March 9, 1931. I was born in Mississippi..." [S275] Death Certificate, Wills, Saluda E #D144. [S483] Pension File, Wills, Saluda Elizabeth #49469. "I have been a bona fide resident of this state continuously since the 15 day of May A.D. 1846" "I was born in Mississippi, and came to Texas in 1848" [S483] Pension File, Wills, Saluda Elizabeth #49469. "We settled in Bell County, Texas, in 1855, near where the town of Holland, Bell County, Texas, now stands." [S483] Pension File, Wills, Saluda Elizabeth #49469. "...Mrs. Saluda E. Wills, died on the 7th day of January, 1932, near Killeen, Texas" [S544] Story of Bell County, Texas Vol 2, Limmer, E A Jr., (Eakin Press, Austin, Texas, 1988), pg 1006. [S483] Pension File, Wills, Saluda Elizabeth #49469. "I was married to him on the 8th day of March A.D. 1852, in the county of Bell..." This is recorded as 10 Mar 1853, in Bell County, by M W Dameron, JP.