ANNA FLORENCE "ANNIE" (GRISHAM) WALLIS


PARENTS: Ephriam "Eaf" GRISHAM  and Elizabeth J. "Bettie" PATTERSON

HUSBAND: Columbus LaFayette "Fate" WALLIS


35. Anna Florence "Annie" GRISHAM (15.Ephriam3, 4.Andrew2, 1.George1)  was born in  1874  Annie married Columbus LaFayette "Fate" WALLIS  on 17 Dec 1890, in Tippah County, MS, (Marriage Bk. 5, pg. 326 B). Columbus LaFayette "Fate" WALLIS, (son of Tillman R. Wallis and Amanda Bartlett) died __ March, 1951 and was buried in  County Line Cemetery, Booneville, MS. Anna died in  1912, in  Prentiss County, MS,and was buried in County Line Cemetery, Booneville, MS.

Children:

83. i Winnie M. WALLIS , born 3 May, 1892.

     ii Pearl WALLIS , born 1894, married Perry D. MURLEY, , born 1888, died 1969, Buried: County Line Cemetery, Booneville, MS. Pearl died 1967, Buried: County Line Cemetery, Booneville, MS. Information R. Jane Perry received in MS indicated that Pearl was born in 1892.

     iii Maye WALLIS , born 1896, married Clinton CRISWELL.  Clinton was born  in 1889 and died in 1979.  He was buried in  County Line Cemetery, Booneville, MS. Maye died  in 1974 and was interred in the County Line Cemetery, Booneville, MS. DOB from information received in MS by R. Jane Perry was 1894.

     iv Tina "Tiny" WALLIS , born 1896, married  Mr. HUGHEY. Tina Buried: Pine Grove Baptist Cemetery, Tippah County.

     v Virginia C. WALLIS , born 1898, married Baxter ANDERSON. Virginia lived in Baldwyn, MS.

     vi Della WALLIS , born 1901, married Mr. SAYLORS. Della Buried: Oaklawn Cemetery, Booneville, MS

     vii Rosa "Rosie" WALLIS married Mr. GOUDY. Rosa died 1978, Buried: 1978, Ripley Cemetery, Tippah County, MS.

     viii James Dewey WALLIS , born 13 September, 1902, Tippah County, MS., Church: Baptist, Occupation Preacher, married Bess STRICKLAND, , born Corinth, MS. DOB from R. Jane Perry was Sept., 1903. Jane and her family visited in the home of Dewey and Bess Wallis in MS.

84. ix Leonard Columbus WALLIS , born 7 May, 1905.

85. x Dalton Thomas WALLIS , born 29 April, 1907.

     xi Emily WALLIS, born 1910, married Delbert "John" GREEN. Emily had a florist shop--Wallis & Saylor Flower Shop-- with Pearl Guy Wallis, widow of Dalton Wallis.  The florist shop was in Booneville, MS. 


 

Sources:

Gurney, Bill, "Cemeteries of Prentiss County, MS."

Martini, Don and Tommy Lockhart, compilers, "Cemeteries of Tippah County, Mississippi", August, 1975.

Perry, R. Jane

Perry, R, Jane from J. Dewey Wallis

The Prentiss County Historical Association, "Wallis F361" by Junie Wallis Goolsby, from "History of Prentiss County, Mississippi."

EPHRIAM "EAF" GRISHAM

 

 

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