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Wallace Willis
American songwriter
Wallace Willis was a Choctaw Freedman living in the Indian Territory, in what is now Choctaw County, near the city of Hugo, Oklahoma, US.
His dates are unclear: perhaps 1820 to 1880.
Wallis willis biography of abraham
He is credited with composing (probably before 1860) several Negro spirituals.[1][2] Willis received his name from his owner, Britt Willis, probably in Mississippi, the ancestral home of the Choctaws.
He died, probably in what is now Atoka County, Oklahoma, as his unmarked grave is located there.[3]
Before the Civil War, Willis and his daughter, Aunt Minerva, were sent by their owner to work at the Spencer Academy where the superintendent, Reverend Alexander Reid, heard them singing.
In 1871 Reid was at a performance of the Jubilee Singers of Fisk University and thought the songs he had heard the Willises singing were better than those of the Jubilee Singers. He furnished them to the group, which performed them in the United States