Will/Braffitt/Johnson/Cook genealogy - Person Sheet
Will/Braffitt/Johnson/Cook genealogy - Person Sheet
NameReuben Bird Will
Birth5 May 1830, Mount Jackson, Shenandoah, VA369,1,2
Death20 Apr 1913, New Market, Shenandoah, VA369,1,2
BurialEmmanuel Lutheran Church Cemetery, New Market, Shenandoah, VA369,1,2
FatherGeorge Will (1788-1864)
MotherCatherine Elizabeth Byrd (1795-1833)
Misc. Notes
!BIRTH-DEATH-BURIAL: 20-Apr-1913 New Market, Shenandoah, VA deaths369, Reuben Bird Will
!BIRTH-DEATH-BURIAL: Emmanuel Lutheran Church Cemetery, New Market, Shenandoah, VA1, R. B. Will, wife M. J. Will (Mary Jane Long), https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/133849392
!BIRTH-DEATH-BURIAL: FamilySearch2, Reuben Bird Will, spouse Mary Jane Long (1829-1907), https://ancestors.familysearch.org/GS6F-BV5
!CENSUS: 1850 District 58, Shenandoah, VA, 124/124, Reuben Will, https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:M8DP-G1M
!MARRIAGE: abt 1855
!CENSUS: 1860 New Market, Shenandoah, VA, 791/789, Reuben Will, wife Mary Will, Laura Will, https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MHMQ-CYS
!CENSUS: 1870 New Market, Shenandoah, VA, 2/2, Reuben Will, wife Mary J. Will
!CENSUS: 1880 New Market, Shenandoah, VA, Reuben B. Will, parents born PA, wife Mary J. Will
!CENSUS: 1900 Lee, Shenandoah, VA, Reuben B. Will, 244/248, wife Mary J. Will, niece Sallie E. Will
!CENSUS: 1910 Lee, Shenandoah, VA, Ruben B. Will, widowed, niece Sallie E. Will, https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MPGD-RL9
!OCCUPATION: Millwright; carpenter
!REFERENCE: 2007, "Reuben B. Will (half brother of my 2nd great-grandmother, Sarah Catharine (Will) Neff) enlisted at New Market, VA August 20, 1862 into Capt. B.Z. Price'c Co of Light Artillery. He was in Capt. George W. Wooding's Co. Reuben B. Will was present at all muster rolls with his unit. He was listed as a Artificer. April 20, 1865 Reuben Will appears on a list of Prisoners of War who were paroled April 19 and 20, 1865 at Various Places in Virginia and West Virginia. According to his handwritten oath of allegiance he was paroled April 20, 1865 New Market, Virginia by Simon Snyder, Capt. Reuben Will was 35 years of age, 6ft. He had dark complexion and dark hair and eyes.", https://web.archive.org/web/20070823015535/http://...ves-in-the-civil-war
!REFERENCE: Margaret Tull
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