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he now resides in Pape county. A. M. Willis, Jr.,‘is also a guard in the Virginia Penitentiary in Richmond.
W. E. Compton. 84, formerly mayor of Washington and one of its oldest citizens, relates that as a boy he remembers Captain A. M. Willis, his daughter. May, and three sons, Lewis, Byrd, and Achille Willis. The sons, he recalls, were great fox hunters* and two of the boys, Achille and Lewis Willis, were classmate of Mr. Compton’s at “Tlj.e Academv."
( aptain \\ illis was a strong supporter of the Re-adjuster Party. a split party formed about ]ssO by Billy Mahone of Richmond.
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