Son of John Swansea Ollis, Jr. (1819-1891) and Frances Burlson (1822-1871), John was born in Yancy County, North Carolina on February 22,1845. He fought as a private, at least in 1861, in Company E of the 6th Regiment of the North Carolina Infantry during the American Civil War.[1] He married Susanna Rayfield in South Carolina on December 8, 1866, and their children included:
Martha Joan Ollis (1867-1927)
B. C. Ollis (b. 1869)
Susanna Alice Ollis (b 1873)
Lafayette Wheaton Ollis (1873-1932)
Lorenzo Ollis (1876-1954)
They made their home in York County, South Carolina until sometime before 1900, when the moved to Georgia.[2] Susanna died in 1915 and John remarried, marrying Mary Eugenia Funderburg (b. 1855) in Barrow, Georgia on February 11, 1917. John passed away in 1935
Sources
↑ "United States Civil War Soldiers Index, 1861-1865," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FSD1-B4X : 4 December 2014), John Leonard Ollis, Private, Company E, 6th Regiment, North Carolina Infantry, Confederate; citing NARA microfilm publication M230 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.), roll 29; FHL microfilm 821,796.
↑ John L Ollis discovered in 1910 United States Federal Census[1] Year: 1910; Census Place: Cains, Gwinnett, Georgia; Roll: T624_194; Page: 16B; Enumeration District: 0065; FHL microfilm: 1374207. Ancestry.com. 1910 United States Federal Census [database on-line]. Lehi, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2006. Original data: Thirteenth Census of the United States, 1910 (NARA microfilm publication T624, 1,178 rolls). Records of the Bureau of the Census, Record Group 29. National Archives, Washington, D.C.
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