Children of Willis and Malinda (Davis) Tweedy
This list of children of Willis Tweedy and Malinda Alsia Davis is compiled from census, birth and other records:
1. Richard Benjamin ("R. Ben") Tweedy, b 20 Jan 1878, d 24 Jun 1943 Jerseyville, Jersey Co IL, bur Limestone Cem, Cobden; m Jersey Co IL 19 Oct 1909 Frances Sarah Wolfe, b Oct 1877, d 1 Mar 1965, bur Oak Grove Cem, Jersey Co IL. No children in household in 1910 census of St. Louis MO and 1920 census of Jersey Co IL.
2. Jennie B. Tweedy (Malinda's second child), b 28 Jan 1882 Ridge Pct, Union Co IL. (Union County birth record.)
3. Nettie Tweedy, b Feb 1885
4. Iva Tweedy, b Sep 1886
5. Leo C. Tweedy, b o/a 21 Aug 1890, d 12 Feb 1898.
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6. Lily R. aka Ruth L. Tweedy, b May 1893. Some online lists of Willis and Malinda's children show one daughter named Lily, born in 1893, and another named Ruth, born ca 1897.Ruth's age was apparently interpreted as 13 on the 1910 census, but magnification allows an interpretation of 18, or birth year of around 1892.Since the names Lily and Ruth do not appear in Willis' household in the same census, they are probably one and the same person.
7. Willis E. Tweedy, b Jan 1898
The 1880 census of Johnson Co IL shows Willis and Malinda "Twitty" with son Ben, age 2.In the 1900 census of Franklin Co MO, Central Township, Malinda was listed as the mother of seven children, six of whom were living. Five children were in the household then: Jennie, Nettie, Iva, Lily and Willis E. Tweedy. By 1900 Leo had died, and Benjamin R. Tweedy, b Jan 1878 IL, school teacher, single, was in Franklin County, Central Township, St. Clair village.