According to the Thompson/Lilly family Bible William David (W.D.) Lilly was born 29 August, 1841. That same year Susan Lilly was the subject of a Bastardy Bond filed in the Wayne County Courthouse. The bond is dated 10 August, 1841. Susan refused to name the father of the child. It is, perhaps, noteworthy that the name "David" was not common in the Thompson family until David I. Thompson was born to Josiah and Catherine Lilly Thompson. It is interesting, if nothing else, that Susan Lilly, and her illegitimate son, W.D. Lilly seem to have had some connection with the Edwards family in which the names William and David did occur. The grandfather of William Edwards, in whose household W.D. Lilly was enumerated in the 1860 Horry County, SC census, was David Edwards.
W.D. Lilly is listed in the 1850 Wayne County, North Carolina Census in the household of Susy Lilly (South Side of the Neuse, page 239a; Dwelling 340; Family 340) as David Lilly, and was 8 years old. Listed with him are his sister, Catherine, age 13, and his brother Gibson, age 6.
By 1860 he had moved to Horry County, South Carolina where he was enumerated in the census with the family of William Edwards. Back in Wayne County, North Carolina, as stated eslewhere, Susan Lilly received a tract of land from Gabriel Edwards located in the village of Milton just north of Mount Olive.
26 June, 1861 W.D. Lilly enlisted in W.C. White's Company (Company L) of the 7th Regiment of South Carolina Volunteers in Conway, South Carolina. By September of that year he was listed as absent and sick at Manchester, Virginia. He returned to active service by January, 1863. 2 July, 1863 he received wounds at the Battle of Gettysburg. He was killed 18 November, 1863 at Knoxville, Tennessee.

7th Infantry Regiment of South Carolina Volunteers

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