1. George Willis (1809–1861) was admitted to West Point in 1827 but appears not to have graduated. He was appointed marshal of the western district of Florida Territory in 1838. As such, Willis executed the judgment of the court in the famous case of Jonathan Walker, a Massachusetts antislavery activist, who was tried in 1844 for aiding slaves to escape (du Bellet, Some Prominent Virginia Families [1976 reprint], 2:290; Senate Exec. Proceedings description begins Journal of the Executive Proceedings of the Senate of the United States of America (3 vols.; Washington, 1828). description ends , 5:152; John D. Lawson, ed., American State Trials: A Collection of the Important and Interesting Criminal Trials … from the Beginning of Our Government to the Present Day [17 vols.; St. Louis, 1914–36], 3:863–67).

2. William Lee Ball (1781–1824) of Nuttsville, Virginia, served in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1817 until his death on 29 Feb. 1824 (Newport Mercury, 6 Mar. 1824).

3. Byrd C. Willis (1781–1846), after his marriage to Mary Willis Lewis, lived for a time near Orange Court House but settled at Willis Hill, his plantation near Fredericksburg. He was a captain in the Twentieth Regiment of Infantry during the War of 1812. In 1825 Willis moved to Florida Territory, where he was appointed navy agent at Pensacola in 1832, a position he held until his resignation in 1836 (du Bellet, Some Prominent Virginia Families [1976 reprint], 2:289; Heitman, Historical Register description begins Francis B. Heitman, Historical Register and Dictionary of the United States Army, from Its Organization, September 29, 1789, to March 2, 1903 (2 vols.; 1903; reprint, Baltimore, 1994). description ends , 1:1044; Senate Exec. Proceedings description begins Journal of the Executive Proceedings of the Senate of the United States of America (3 vols.; Washington, 1828). description ends , 4:284, 289, 547).