New York, May 16 —(AP)—John Willis, 84. Civil War veteran and member of Lincoln’s escort at Gettysburg, died at the home of his daughter in Brooklyn today. Mr. Willis was born in Maine and served through the war with the Fifth Maine Volunteers. At the close of the war he moved to Brooklyn. where he was for many years connected with the Brooklyn navy yard. His widow and a daughter, Mrs. John V. Waring, survive him.
Daily Kennebec Journal, Augusta, ME, May 17, 1926