Willis Lewis Gravely

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Willis Lewis Gravely

Birth
Leatherwood, Henry County, Virginia, USA
Death
5 Aug 1885 (aged 84)
Leatherwood, Henry County, Virginia, USA
Burial
Leatherwood, Henry County, Virginia, USA Add to Map
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He married Dolly Stone in Henry County, Va. on Dec 20th 1824.
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Joseph Gravely, first of the Gravelys in Henry County came from Culpeper County, Va. before the Revolutionary War.
He acquired extensive lands in what came to be known as the Leatherwood section of Henry County, Va.
The Gravelys were tobacco growers and later in the 1800's became world famous as processors of plug chewing tobacco.
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Ref: From Our Proud Heritage: A Pictorial History of Martinsville and Henry County, Virginia.
Produced and printed by the Bassett Printing Corp., Bassett, Virginia.
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1880 Census, Leatherwood, Henry County, Va., p.59:
Willis Gravely 79 VA
Ann 67 VA wife
Matilda F. 22 VA dau
Edmund B. 25 VA son
Anna 27 VA dau
Nathan Harup 25 VA other (works on farm)
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Info below from Diane Gravlee:
Willis later married Anne Nancy Marshall Barrow, by whom he had most of his children. He is found with this wife on both the 1860 and 1880 Census in Henry County, Virginia.
He married Dolly Stone in Henry County, Va. on Dec 20th 1824.
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Joseph Gravely, first of the Gravelys in Henry County came from Culpeper County, Va. before the Revolutionary War.
He acquired extensive lands in what came to be known as the Leatherwood section of Henry County, Va.
The Gravelys were tobacco growers and later in the 1800's became world famous as processors of plug chewing tobacco.
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Ref: From Our Proud Heritage: A Pictorial History of Martinsville and Henry County, Virginia.
Produced and printed by the Bassett Printing Corp., Bassett, Virginia.
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1880 Census, Leatherwood, Henry County, Va., p.59:
Willis Gravely 79 VA
Ann 67 VA wife
Matilda F. 22 VA dau
Edmund B. 25 VA son
Anna 27 VA dau
Nathan Harup 25 VA other (works on farm)
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Info below from Diane Gravlee:
Willis later married Anne Nancy Marshall Barrow, by whom he had most of his children. He is found with this wife on both the 1860 and 1880 Census in Henry County, Virginia.

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IN MEMORY OF
WILLIS GRAVELY
BORN
NOV 2, 1800
DIED
AUG 25, 1885

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