GEORGE DAVIS.
Chicago: The Bowen Publishing Company, 1901.
The Davis family is a very old family in America and has been very proimnently identified with the development of the country as well as being conspicuous in business, political, social and religious life, and has also shown their patriotic spirit in times of war. There is much that can be said of this family in connection with the development of America and the prominent part they have taken. Charles Davis, founder of the American branch of this family, was born in Wales, about the year 1700, and in 1724 sailed from Wales to America and first located in Pennsylvania. Here he married a Miss Metcalf and they settled in Chatham county, North Carolina and reared a family of eight children, viz.: John; Thomas, who moved to Grayson county, Virginia, and married a Miss Knox; Sallie married a man named Cox; Tamar, also married a Cox; Retty married a man named Vestal; Hannah married a Mr. Moffett; Mollie married a Mr. Moffett; and Lydia married Mr. Doam, of whom Colonel Carter Doam of Civil war fame is a descendant. John Davis, son of Charles, was born in Chatham county, North Carolina, and there married Mollie Chamness, and they became the parents of eleven children, as follows: Charles; Joseph; William; John, the grandfather of Jeff Davis; Thomas; Sarah married Joshua Pickett; Mary married George Shugart; Tamar married Job Ratliff; Hannah married Isaac Barker; Elizabeth married Enoch Barker; and Rachel married William Pike. William Davis, son of John and grandson of Charles, was also born in North Carolina and married Ann Marshall, and their children are as follows: Jacob married Lucy Rose; Joseph; Mary married Stephen Jones; John married first Ruth Hadley and second Lydia Davis, whose first husband was murdered in Wayne county, Indiana; Simon married Abigail Freeman; Rebecca married Ebenezer Adams; Rachael married Joshua Bond; Ezra married Nellie Hadley; Mark married Rebecca Osborn; and Anna married Ezra Williams. Joseph Davis, son of William and Ann (Marshall) Davis, was born in North Carolina, Chatham county, October 3, 1785, and May 31, 1807, married Catharine Farmer, who was born January 15, 1787. They removed to Ohio in 1808 and settled in Montgomery county and lived there until 1823, then removed to Wayne county, Indiana, where they passed the remaining years of their lives, he dying January 16, 1876, and she September 9, 1870. Their children were named as followed: Nathan, born in June, 1808, married Hannah Moore and died January 1, 1870; William married Abagail Wright, removed to Howard county, Indiana, and there died in 1861; Mary became the wife of David Baldwin and died in Hamilton county, Indiana; Anna was twice married, first to Newton Baldwin and second to Daniel Thornburg; George married Charlotte Baldwin; Hannah married Daniel Thornburg; John married Caroline Chamness; Edom W. married Keziah Bales; and Lewis died in 1840. All of the above named are deceased except Edom W. and George.
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