Children:

1. Jane Catherine Annis, b. August 19, 1926.
2. Arthur Clifton Annis, b. October 28, 1927.

Lineage: Arthur William Annis (1871-1941), Levi John Annis (1844-1904), William Annis (1813-1905), Levi Annis (1781-1855), Charles Annis (1738-1823), John Annis (1700-c.1771), Abraham Annis (1668-1738), Cormac Annis (1638-1717)

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Alonzo Lawson Annes 1860-c.1923

Alonzo Annes was born November 28, 1860 at Huron City, St. Clair County, Michigan, the son of Charles Jordan and Mary Abigail (McClintock) Annes. He married Katie Belle Hubbard on November 28, 1882 at Muskegon, Michigan.

After attending school in Carson City, Michigan, Alonzo resided in St. John, Muskegon, and Saginaw, Michigan working at various jobs.
In 1886, at the age of 26, he removed to the small upper peninsula town of Marenisco, where he was elected Township Supervisor the following year. Evidently this position and location was not to his liking, and he removed to St. Louis, Missouri, and than on to Wausau, Wisconsin by 1888. In Wausau he was employed as a traveling lumber salesman for the Curtis and Yale Co. He later held an important office position, and was in charge of the Company's Milwaukee branch from 1898 to 1907.
The wanderlust still had Alonzo and in 1908 he left for Tacoma, Washington where he was engaged in the business of buying lumber and millwork for eastern manufacturers and jobbers.
In the early 1890's he began collecting a very considerable amount of genealogical information concerning the many lineages of the Annis Family in Canada and the United States, and his voluminous records were assembled from extensive research and personal correspondence.

His handwritten records were assembled from extensive personal research, newspaper clippings, and public and private records. He accomplished this in several ways, but it was primarily through personal correspondence to known Annis family members. In these letters that were written to Alonzo are the stories of a family's successes, failures, joys and tragedies, handed down over a 250-year period from father to son and mother to daughter. He also hired and had resources from, a personal family researcher by the name of E. C. Davis. Mr. Davis is referred to and quoted quite frequently in the manuscript.

On October 24, 1922, shortly after the death of his only son, and with his own health failing, Alonzo wrote from Milwaukee, Wisconsin to his first cousin, Neil Delos Annes, son of Hiram Campbell Annes, and arranged to send the manuscript to him. He did this in hopes that Neil would continue the work and see its completion through to publication. Alonzo also furnished detailed instructions of how he could carry on the recording of the Annis Genealogy as he had begun the project many years before. Neil attempted to make a typewritten copy of the hand written manuscript and to better organize the massive manuscript, but evidently he did not have the time available to continue. The manuscript eventually ended up in the hands of his daughter Eva Lucile (Annes) Lund of Phoenix, Arizona.

In the early 1960's, two other Annis family researchers, Verle L. Annis {1897-1983} of Laguna Beach, California and Arthur Alvin Annis {1891-1984} of Washington, Illinois, were both working on their own separate family genealogies. Both Verle and Arthur had spent many, many years in research and they both eventually published their books, "The Annis Genealogy - Charles Annis 1638-1717 of Newbury, Massachusetts and his Descendants" (1978) and "James W. Annis 1794-1876 and his Descendants" (1968), respectively. Arthur and Verle became co-researchers after Arthur made an initial inquiry to Verle during the course of his research in the late 1950's. Arthur originally discovered the existence of the manuscript during the course of his research and shared the revelation with Verle. Between the two of them they made substantial progress in making notes concerning errors of omission as well as correcting and updating information.

It was Arthur's efforts that brought the manuscript to light again when he contacted Eva Annes Lunt, who was residing in Arizona He was also responsible for having the manuscript microfilmed and a copy deposited with the Church of the Latter Day Saints genealogical library in Salt Lake City, Utah (film #'s 284216 and 284217). Verle Annis writes in his book: "Alonzo Lawson Annes compiled a voluminous genealogy of the Annis family during the late 1800's and early 1900's. Although the original work contained many inaccuracies, his records have provided valuable data for the research of Arthur A. Annis of Washington, Ill., and Verle L. Annis of Laguna Beach, Ca., during the 1960's and 1970's."
Concerning the use of the data that they found in the manuscript he wrote: "Only such data as could be confirmed by existing records has been used in this genealogical record of the Annis family. This has resulted in a considerable number of blank spaces in the more remote lineages. But the author has worked on the assumption that a blank date, name or place is preferable to an error."

During the course of Alonzo's research he contacted another Annis family researcher, Dr. John McNab Currier of Newport, Vermont. Dr. Currier is the author of "Genealogy of David Annis of Hopkinton and Bath, New Hampshire, His Ancestors and Descendants", Dr. Currier writes: "I have had considerable correspondence since 1895 with Alonzo L. Annis who is gathering up genealogical facts about the Annis Family in New England, in a general history, which is too voluminous, and even conflicting, to publish in full. From this correspondence I shall print only well ascertained facts and extracts:" Dr. Currier did not subscribe to much of Alonzo's method of research and disagreed with him on several points about Annis lineages in print.

It was not known what became of the original manuscript after that time, but in August 2001 I was contacted by Bill Principe who informed me that the original manuscript had been donated to the Sons of the Revolution and they were in possession of it at their library in Glendale, California. I immediately sent a message to the membership of the Annis Family Association asking for aid in copying the original manuscript. The reason for this second copying of the work was two fold. The original microfilm was difficult to read and disorganized, made in a time when copying was still fairly primitive. The second reason was simply that the manuscript was over 100 years old and it was unknown how well the original paper and news clippings were holding up. I decided that it was critical to quickly locate and copy the original, while it could still be accomplished. Annis Family Association members Larry and Betty Larimer of Las Vegas, Nevada contacted me, and said they were very eager and willing to go to Glendale and do the job. This was done promptly and with great assistance from the Son's of the Revolution librarian, John Justice and staff. The Official Board, the entire membership of the Annis Family Association and the extended family, as well as our descendants owes a great debt of gratitude to these people.
This material contained in the following manuscript was collected at a very important time in our family's history, as they link the early Annis colonists and pioneers with the beginning of the modern era, and so allow us an important window into our past.

Despite the diligent work of Alonzo L. Annes, there were indeed many factual errors, omissions, assertions, and presumptions that were made in the compilation of this extensive manuscript. It was not entirely Alonzo's fault that these errors appear here. The family members that he communicated with passed on many Annis family legends that had been handed down from generation to generation, to Alonzo and he recorded them. This in no way subtracts from the inherent value of the information found within, but does offer a warning that undocumented data can and will cause confusion that will have a far reaching impact on subsequent family researchers.

Children:

1. Clarke Howell Annes, b. September 10, 1883; died March 10, 1922.

Lineage: Charles Jordan Annes (1836-1918), Charles Annes (1804-1872), Levi Annis (1781-1855), Charles Annis (1738-1823), John Annis (1700-c.1771), Abraham Annis (1668-1738), Cormac Annis (1638-1717)

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Arthur Alvin Annis 1891-1984

Arthur Annis was born January 15, 1891 at Bremen, Indiana, the son of Charles Edward and Emma Viola (Balsley) Annis. He married August 8, 1915, to Mary Ann Liza Sausman {1894-1983} at Bremen, Indiana.
Arthur was a high school teacher for 46 years in the Rockford, Illinois public school system. After retirement, he removed to Washington, Illinois, where his daughter and her husband, Judge John A. Holtzman resided.
For many years Arthur and his brother, Walter, collected data concerning their family lineage by corresponding with known family members, and tracking down the many collateral families. In the 1950's he contacted Verle L. Annis of California, and for many years they shared their findings. According to Verle, "this common interest has been as much a bond between us as the fact that we share a common ancestor in Ezra (1726-1818)."
Arthur was responsible for locating the unpublished manuscript of Alonzo L. Annes, and with Verle, in editing and verifying much of the information it contains.
Arthur published his work after many years of research in the form of a book entitled: James W. Annis and His Descendants.

Children:

1. Betty Marie Annis, b. October 6, 1918; died October 16, 2006, m. John Albert Holtzman (1915-1996)

Lineage: Charles Edward Annis (1862-1942), Josiah W. Annis (1834-1891), James W. Annis (1794-1876), Jacob Annis (1763-1841), Ezra Annis (1726-1818), John Annis (1700-c.1771), Abraham Annis (1668-1738), Cormac Annis (1638-1717)

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Verle Lincoln Annis 1897-1983

Verle Annis was born February 12, 1897 at Alderton, Washington, the son of George Fremont and Mary Elena (Woolery) Annis. He married on March 22, 1959 to Elizabeth Naomi Reed {1905-2000} at Santa Barbara, California. He and his wife had no children.
Verle spent his boyhood years in his native Washington State, where his grandfather, Orson Monroe Annis, had pioneered from New York State and Minnesota in 1854.
On April 10, 1917, as a young man of 20, Verle enlisted into the United States Army and was assigned to the 63rd Artillery. His regiment went to France and was being held in reserve at La Courtine, France at the time World War One ended (November 1918).
In 1919 he set his course for education and attended the University of Washington (1919-1922) where he engaged in the study of architecture. He then transferred to the University of Pennsylvania in September 1922, and it was from this institution that he received his Bachelor of Arts Degree in 1924, and his Master Degree in 1926.
His love of teaching secured him an Assistant and Associate Professorship at Oklahoma State University, before accepting a Professorship at the University of Southern California. He retired from that prestigious University as a Professor Emeritus in 1962.
In the course of his research and study of Architecture, Verle wrote, and had published the definitive book, The Architecture of Antiqua, Guatemala 1543-1773, which resulted in an honorary doctorate from the University of San Carlos, Guatemala, a gold Medal and certificate as "Illustrious Citizen of Antigua". His retirement was spent between homes in Antigua, Guatemala and Laguna Beach, CA.
Verle's interest in his personal lineage took him on a fifty year research and compilation project that created an accurate genealogical work pertaining to the Annis Family in America. In 1978 he authored the genealogical work, The Annis Genealogy, Charles Annis 1638-1717 of Newbury, Massachusetts and His Descendants.
Verle died at Laguna Beach, California in 1983, and on the University of Southern California campus is a fitting monument to a brilliant and dedicated man, The Verle Lincoln Annis Gallery.

Source: Edan Hughes, "Artists in California, 1786-1940" California Arts and Architecture list, 1932. Born on Feb. 12, 1897 in Alderton, WA. Annis earned his M.A. degree at the University of Pennsylvania before moving to Los Angeles in 1928. He taught at USC for many years before his demise in Laguna Beach, CA on April 28, 1983. His watercolors include landscapes, marines, figure studies and views of historic buildings, among them California Missions.

Lineage: George Fremont Annis (1857-1930), Orson Monroe Annis (1828-1900), Phineas Annis (1803-1880), John Annis (1764-1839), Ezra Annis (1726-1818), John Annis (1700-c.1771), Abraham Annis (1668-1738), Cormac Annis (1638-1717)

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