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- Source: Allen Singletary, Ancestry.com Message Board -
Submitter: Allen Singletary
Subject: Willis & Maulsey Hester Singletary
Willis Singletary was born 1794 in Bladen Co., NC, and he died after 1870, probably in Panola Co., TX. He married (1) Mary Wood, born about 1795, in Bladen Co., NC, and she died about 1831 in Robeson Co., NC. Willis and Mary bore eight children, all born in Bladen Co., NC. After Mary Wood Died, Willis married (2) Maulsey “Mollie” Hester, born 1809, in Bladen Co., NC, and she died about 1865, probably in Panola Co., TX. Willis and Maulsey bore ten children in NC, and after their youngest was born in 1852, Willis and Maulsey moved to Panola Co., TX, in about 1855 with their own children and a son, Eli Singletary by Willis’ first marriage.
It is documented that Willis was in Panola Co., TX in 1858, in the Beckville area. His name was on a land purchase transaction for 2 acres for $5.00 purchased from Isaac R. Youngblood, to build a school for the Youngblood or Beckville Communities. It was to be built on Grand-Bluff Road.
The place of burial of three children of Willis and Maulsey are known: son, Francis (Franklin) Singletary and his wife Martha Elizabeth “Lizzie” Dillard are buried in Walton Cemetery, near Beckville, in Panola Co., TX; son, Andrew David Singletary and his wife Amanda Ann Middleton are buried in Youngblood Cemetery, near Beckville; daughter, Amelia “Milly” Singletary was buried with her husband George Wesley Armstrong, in Sugar Hill Cemetery.
V. Allen Singletary
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