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- Levi Wells was of Welsh heritage being born on 8 AUG 1805 in Windham County, Vermont, one of 10 children of Joel Wells, Sr. and Mary (Edwards) Wells. His father, Joel Wells Sr., was born on 1 Aug 1775 in Deerfield, Franklin, Massachusetts and his mother was Mary Edwards who was born 9 Feb 1778 in Coventry, Tolland, Connecticut. His parents had married on 8 May 1797 in Guilford, Windham, Vermont. He married Sophia Voris 20 Aug 1823 in Harmony, Indiana. Sophia Sophrana Voris (Voorhees) is of Pennsylvania Dutch heritage born in Kentucky on 7 Aug 1805 to Peter and Rachel (Monfort) Voorhees. She Americanized her last name going from the Dutch name Voorhees to Voris.
Levi Wells homesteaded in Nebraska west and north of Beatrice at the close of the Civil War. He came from Emporia, Kansas. He was a Kansas soldier but was raised in Illinois. Levi Wells was in the march "From Atlanta to the Sea" during the Civil War. Sophia Voris Wells and all other settlers in community gathered at the meeting house during the Indian scares in Nebraska and they took their stock with them.
Levi married Sophia 20 Aug 1825 in New Harmony, Posey County, Indiana and they had 12 children:
Mary Ann Wells b: 04 SEP 1827
Eliza Jane Wells b: 20 NOV 1829 in Illinois
James Wells b: 05 MAY 1831 in Moline, Rock Island County, Illinois
Thomas F. Wells b: 31 JUL 1833 in Illinois
Benager Edward Wells b: 09 MAR 1835 in Rock Island County, Illinois
Richard W. Wells b: 19 NOV 1836 in Illinois
Darius Wells b: 09 MAY 1838 in Rock Island Co, Illinois
Joel Wells b: 21 SEP 1839 in Illinois
Charles Wesley Wells b: 28 JUN 1841 in Johnson County, Iowa
Mary Ann Margaret Wells b: 10 APR 1844 in Johnson County, Iowa
Cyrus James Wells b: 01 AUG 1847 in Rock Island County, Illinois
Levi Wells b: 1850 in Rock Island County, Illinois
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1805 - 1864 (58 years)
