Spouse: Willis Eugene Parris. Children were: Gleen Edward Parris, Jean Elizabeth Parris, Dianne Parris.

Spouse: James Emmitt Mullins.

Spouse: Giilda Harriett Herlong. Children were: Wayne Lee Huddleston.

Spouse: Lloyd H. Sells.

Spouse: Mary Taylor. Mary Taylor and Lewis Huddleston were married in 1879.⁶⁰ Children were: Vera Huddleston, Elizabeth Huddleston, Jimmie Huddleston, Aida Huddleston.

Spouse: James Lacey. Louise Huddleston and James Lacey were married WFT Est. 1874-1907.⁶⁰ Children were: Lloyd Lacey, Olive Lacey, Mary Lacey, Laura Lacey, Ada Lacey.

Spouse: James McHenry. Louise Jane Huddleston and James McHenry were married WFT Est. 1854-1887.⁶⁰ Children were: Creed McHenry, Louise McHenry, J. Spencer McHenry, Virginia McHenry.

Spouse: James Richards.

Spouse: Joe Combs.

Spouse: Levi Anderson.

Spouse: Frankie Vaughn.

Spouse: Wright Gladden.

Spouse: Benjamin Franklin Russell. Children were: George Russell, William Russell, Cinthia Mahala Russell, John Russell, Frankie Russell, Isobell Russell.

Spouse: John Martin Speck. Martha Ermine Huddleston and John Martin Speck were married WFT Est. 1880-1909.⁶⁰

Spouse: Lewis Benjamin Jeffries.

Spouse: R. B. Weeks. Martha S. Huddleston and R. B. Weeks were married in 1911.⁶⁰

Spouse: Annie Hall. Annie Hall and Martin M. Huddleston were married in 1853.⁶⁰

Spouse: Mary E. Thompson. Mary E. Thompson and Martin M. Huddleston were married in 1866.⁶⁰ Children were: Henry Huddleston, Dora Huddleston, Edgar P. Huddleston, Charles E. Huddleston, Virgil E. Huddleston, David W. Huddleston.

Spouse: Olive Harrison. Olive Harrison and Martin Van Buren Huddleston were married WFT Est. 1849-1880.⁶⁰

Spouse: Mary Richardson. Mary Richardson and Martin Van Buren Huddleston were married WFT Est. 1847-1880.⁶⁰ Children were: Lewis Huddleston, Laura Huddleston, Louise Huddleston, Bethira Huddleston, Sarah Brice Huddleston, Creed T. Huddleston, Bethira L. Huddleston.

Spouse: Willis Acree GROCE.                                         Family History
                                                 of
                Willis Acree Groce and Mary Elizabeth Huddleston
                   By Howard Groce(Samuel Willis, Ben Eston)
 
Willis Acree Groce was born in Clinton County, Kentucky June 3, 1845.  His parents were Jesse Groce (April 10, 1816 – 1850+) and Sarah Anne Speck ( May 19, 1819 - January 19,1891).  Jesse was the grandson of Simon Gross, who was born in ? Zurnach, Switzerland? He and his brother, Theobald Gross, came to America in 1741 aboard the ship, Europa.  They settled in Lancaster County, PA.  Theobald died a few years later but Simon's descendants eventually came to Southern Kentucky where they became the ancestors of the Clinton County, KY and Pickett County, TN Groce's.
 
It has been reported that when Willis was four, his father,Jesse, met an untimely death at the age of 32 in 1849. I do not believe this is true, however, because I have found Jesse, Sarah, Granville and Willis in the 1850 census living in Overton County, Tennessee under the name “Gross”  At any rate, in 1859, when Willis was fourteen years of age, his mother, Sarah, bought a 246-acre farm in the Lovelady Community of Overton (now Pickett) County, Tennessee known as the"Old Mayberry Place".  The farm has been owned for many years by Dave and Robbie Hassler and is the present-day home of Robbie who is the great great grand-daughter of Jesse and Sarah Groce through their son, Willis (Willis-Sarah- Mary-Robbie).  Robbie has arranged to place the farm in the Land Trust for Tennessee through the granting of a permanent conservation easement for the remaining 155 acres of the “Old Mayberry Place”.  In 1859, the farm represented a new beginning for Sarah and her two sons as they came from nearby Clinton County, KY to their new home in Tennessee.
 
The farm apparently had a crude log cabin on it at the time,for their first major undertaking was to build a new log home.  The log house, with substantial modification and modernization is presently occupied by Robbie Hassler.
 
In 1861, with the beginning of the Civil War, Granville was eighteen and enlisted to serve with the Confederate Army.  Willis was only sixteen at the time and stayed at  home to look after their mother and to complete the log house they had started earlier.  During the War, Willis assisted the Confederates by serving as a scout in the area. He often had to hide in the caves along the bluffs of the Wolf River to avoid detection by the Union Soldiers.
 
The log house was completed sometime during the Civil War.  On November 14, 1867, Willis and Mary Elizabeth Huddleston, the daughter of Wiley Howard Huddleston, who owned a neighboring farm, made the twenty-mile trip to Livingston, TN, the county seat,obtained a marriage license and were married by Simon H. Flowers,  a local minister.  At that time, the trip must have taken at least two days.  The marriage license required taking out a bond to the State of Tennessee for $1250.00, payable if there arose any legal reason why the two parties should not be married.  Willis and Mary had nothing to worry about -- their first child , Sarah, was three years old at the time and their second,Viola, was born seven months later.
 
When Willis' brother, Granville, returned from the War, he met Mary's sister, Janette Caroline Huddleston, and the two of them were married, probably in 1868.  As children began to arrive to the two couples, the little log home was beginning to show signs of over-crowding.  The census of 1870 shows nine people living there: Sarah; Granville and Nettie and Permelia, a 9-month old daughter; Willisand Mary, Sarah (6), Viola(3), and Lumilda (6mos). By early 1879, there were fifteen people in the two families including Sarah.  It has been suggested that Willis and Maryand their children had moved to a small cabin somewhere between the location of the cabin he had built during the Civil War and Mary's home place, Wiley Huddleston's home, now called the Sims place in Lovelady.
 
In December of 1877, Willis bought the 252-acre farm that had belonged to Capt. Creed T. Huddleston (who died "of disease in Mexico City" during the war with Mexico). The sale was by the  courts to settle the inheritance of SophranaHuddleston, the minor daughter (and only child) of Simon W. Huddleston, the son of Creed T. Huddleston.  Simon died in 1863 at the age of 28, probably in the War between the States, and a W.H.Harrison, probably her maternal grandfather, had been appointed as Sophrana'sguardian.  The sale was held on December 27, 1877 and Willis bought the farm and "the mansion house" for$325.00. The deed finalizing the sale was dated February 26, 1878.
 
Probably at Willis' request, in March of 1879, Sarah deeded the 246-acre farm in Lovelady to her sons, Granville and Willis, maintainingfor herself a life estate.  Immediately,(the deed was dated two days previously) Willis sold his interest in the property to Granville for $550.00.
 
Willis then moved his family, at that time Mary and six of their twelve children, to the farm about 1/2 mile south of Byrdstown where he lived the remainder of his life.  Willis died September 18, 1911 at the age of sixty-six and Mary died March 14, 1913 at the age of seventy one.  Both are buried in the Groce Family Cemetery near the old home place. 
 
In 1907, Willis sold 100 acres of the farm to his son,Granville Armster, and the balance was distributed among other family members in settlement of Willis' estate. Armster's grand-daughter, Karen  Smith, Betty's daughter, and her husband,Lynn,  now  own the remainder of the farm Armster bought from Willis in 1907.
 
Sarah continued to live with Granville's family at the Old Mayberry Place in Lovelady until her death in 1891.  Granville and his family sold the farm in 1896 and moved a short distance down the Wolf River where they bought the farm that was home to him until his death in 1924 and then became the "Turney Groce Place".  Granville had sold the Old Mayberry Place to a couple by the name of Chilton who lost it in 1909 by foreclosure from Pickett County Bank and Trust Co.
 
Willis and Mary raised a large family, with nine of twelve children surviving.  Most of them went onto higher educations and became teachers and professionals.  Willis Curtis became a doctor and carried on a lifelong family practice in Byrdstown and Pickett County.  Ben Eston, the youngest son, was teaching school in Willow Grove, TN in about 1929  when he was asked to represent a local person in a lawsuit brought against that person. Although Ben had no legal training or experience, he successfully argued the case and won the lawsuit for the local person.  Some local citizens were so impressed with his performance that they arranged for Ben to attend Cumberland Law School  in Lebanon for a time sufficient enough for him to pass the Tennessee State Bar Examination.  He then became an attorney after having taught school for a number of years.  He conducted an active legal practice in Byrdstown until his death in 1950.  He was also Superintendent of the County Schools for several terms. He was an avid fisherman and spent much time on the new Dale Hollow Lake after the dam was built at Celina and the lake was enclosed in 1943.  His favorite fishing holes were in the Wolf River backwaters of the lake. He kept a boat tied up near the old highway 42 bridge over the lake and would go there often to test his skills.   Ben's love for fishing has been passed on to many of his descendents, now about eighty, as  we move on into the 21st century.Children were: Lou Groce, Viola Ann Groce, Sarah A. Groce, James Groce, Laura Groce, Willis Curtis Groce, G. Armster Groce, Ben E. Groce, Hattie Groce.

Spouse: Tom Langston. Mary Huddleston and Tom Langston were married on 23 December 1900 in Comanche Co. TX.⁶⁰ Children were: Tom Langston, Juanita Langston.

Spouse: Roland Jasper Story. Children were: Louverna Story.

Spouse: William Flowers.

Spouse: Derrick W Jeffries.

Spouse: William Brooks Ferguson Jr.. Mary Emmeline Huddleston and William Brooks Ferguson Jr. were married on 22 December 1907 in Albany, Clinton County, Kentucky. Children were: Delmer Ferguson, William Paul Ferguson, George Hall Ferguson, Audra Clovis Ferguson.

Spouse: Bee Capps.

Spouse: Vardeman Lee. Children were: Martha LeeH\ A, Wiley Lee, William M. Lee, Thomas V. Lee, Lucy R. Lee, Mahala Lee.

Spouse: Edd Storie. Mattie L Huddleston and Edd Storie were married WFT Est 1906-1939.⁵⁶

Spouse: Lavina Hutts. Children were: Eli Huddleston.

Spouse: W. E. Cox. Millie C. Huddleston and W. E. Cox were married on 28 July 1889 in Comanche Co. TX.⁶⁰ Children were: Aubrey O. Cox, Brian B. Cox, Carl M. Cox, W. E. Jr. Cox.

Spouse: Dilvia Uldean Flowers. Dilvia Uldean Flowers and Milton Arthur Huddleston were married on 25 December 1930 in Albany, KY. Children were: Thelma Louise Huddleston, Milton Watson Huddleston, Judith Ann Huddleston.

Spouse: Harriet Parris.