RE: William Davis (Rev War Time)
Dear Marcella and Louisa, and Roy Timbs
    Marcella I received your e-mail about your stop over at the
library in Salisbury, NC.  That was an excellent library with  with a
great genealogical resources available.  Several years ago the GFRA had a
board meeting in Salisbury and did two days of research at the library.
We felt sorry for the workers that had to put the books back up each day
after we left. 
    I find your Davis material interesting, especially the John
Davis.  My William Davis, (1740-1841), born also in Virginia, and he had
three brothers, John, Richard and Thomas.  We do  not know for sure who
their father was.
Father, and all sons, served with George Washington, in the French and
Indian War, serving with General Braddocl who was defeated by the French.
I've printed you both a copy of the article that I did for the  Carter
County, TN and the Toe Valley, NC Books on William Davis.
    My son , Roy Timbs, also loves and lives history by re-enacting
it.  He works at House in the Horseshoe, in Carthate, NC.  He also
visits, other historical sites, Fort Dobbs, Fort Allimance, and Kings
Mountian, plus.  He has portrayed, William Davis, when he worked at Rocky
Mount Historical Site, at Piney Flats, TN (Between Johnson City and
Bristol).  He does French and Indian War Re-enactments, and was in the
movie with Mel Gibson, "The Patriotic". 
    Did you happen to eat at the Wren's House, (Tavern), just across
from the library.  We ate there several times.
Marcella, I'm mailing you copies of the last two newsletters and the
programs.

Margaret

Marcella,
      DAVIS: William Davis was born between 1727 to 1740, died
1841), married second Francis Carpenter (c1771-1841), they
had eleven children, with Jacob (c1801-1873) being the fourth
child.  Jacob married 1825 his first cousin, Susanna Miller
whose mother, Margaret Carpenter Miller was a sister to
Francis.  Jacob and Susanna had twelve children with the
oldest was Cecelia Lucinda, my great great grandmother.  (see
William Davis Story)
Margaret Garland Timbs    
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Marcella,
I'm sure that There were two james Tiger Whiteheads.  James known as
Wolf' married Jane Garland, daughter of Ezekiel Garland, their brother
John married Jane Whitehead, sister to them.
According to Paul Garland who did the book on Gutridge Garland, Ezekeil's
daugher, Sarah married first James Chambers.  Sarah Chambers was listed
in the 1850 Carter County Census.  The marriage record in Carter county
listed a Sarah Chambers maried a James Whitehead in 1852.  In the 1860
Carter County Census,
Household #80     1850: james Whitehead, 57 born Nc, married 1827
Jane age 44 born Tn in the household, Sarah 22, Mary 20, John 18, Carter
15, Thomas 12, David 10, Viney 9, Hannah 8, Eliza J. 3,  This would be
Jane Garland,  Several of their children were listed in the death records
in Carter County, and listed the parents as James Whitehead and Jeanny
Garland.  I'll copy these later for you.
#82  Sarah Chambers, 37 Tn, married 1829, John S. Chambers 17, William F.
16 and Mary J. 12
Carter County listed James Chambers marrying Sarah Garlin  Jan. 25, 1828

Asa Davis married Susanna Whitehead Nov. 17, 1847.  This has to be your
line and therefore she would be the daughter of James Whitehead and Jane
Garland.


    You may be right and the GFRA wrong, which very possible.  The
records to list  James Whitehead
and Jane Garland  having a daughter, Susanna.  On page 7 # 10, of the
1850 Census it listed a Asa Davis age 23 Tn, Susanna married 1847, James
R. Davis age 2.  Clearly your family.
James Whitehead and Sarah Garland (Chambers) clearly had a Susanna born
1853.
Household 14, William Davis age 34, married 1804 Mary 44, Martha 5, Mary
3, Lucinda 1
#15 Charles Davis 68, VA, married 1825 martha 61, John 23, Amos 20,
Sally.  This probably was a second wife by him.

The Unicoi death record listed a John Davis, born Aug. 26, 1851, widower,
parents, Acey Davis and Susan Whitehead, born Carter County, he died Jan.
14, 1914,

The 1860 Carter County Census, listed page 35, Limestone Cove was listed
as Bakersville.
#1197 Asa 32, Susan 26, James 12, John 10, Sarah 8, Biddy 6, Carter 4
1860 page James Whitehead 30, Sarah 40, Susanna 7, William Chambers 26.

1870, p. 43   Acey Davis, 47 Susanna 40 John 19, Sarah 17, Biddy 15,
David 12, Elijah 8, Hannah 6, Doctor 3: #29
# 30, James Davis 22 Tn Talitha 20, NC, Henry 3, TN, Mary 2.


page 10, Hampton:  # 69 James F. Whitehead 56, Sarah 66, mary Simerly 22,
Susanna 20.

The 1880 Carter County listed james Whitehead 60, and Sarah wife 69. p.
11, #130
There was a marriage record in Carter County for a Susanna Whitehead
2-26-1871 to an Isaac Hopson.  This may very well be the Susanna, because
in the same census, a few houses up from #124 Isaac Hopson age 29, Susa
25 T NC TN, Sarah 8, William W. 6 and James N. 4.
#125 a Sarah Hopson age 48 widow,
#126 John Chambers age 54m wife Mary  This would have been a son of James
Chambers and Sarah Garland

1880 Unicoi County Census:  #135 Asa Davis 42, Susannah 50, David 22,
Elizia 19, hannah 15, Doctor 13
#134 John Davis 30 and jane 20 p. 8

It looks like I need to do some more work, but I think we are beginning
to find an answer.  What do you think/

And now for the rest of the story.Some on the Group that Roy is with are
at Brattonsville this weekend.  Roy had to work so he could not go.  They
are with the 84th Royal Highlanders.  They are Sally and Stewart Spatt,
and Kim Loomis. 
The event at House in the Horse Show is the first weekend in August.
stop by on your way back. 
My husband has been to Foley Beach.

An other friend and fellow re-enactor and her family will be at the beach
Esto the same weekend.

The group has been to Kings Mountain, several times, we were there in May
and stayed at the Motel 6 in Gastonis.
They will go back there some in the fall, and we probably will also go
down.

Margaret

12-9-03

Hi Marcella,

Are you staying busy with the family history? Have you heard of a Ruth Davis Banks who married Moses Banks? She burned to death after her clothes caught on fire while doing the family wash in a kettle over an open fire about 1861.Whose child is she or is she too old to belong to our Davises? She had two children that I know of: John Taylor Banks (11-7-1848) he married Eliza Ann Garland (12-18-1872.)  Second he married Nannie Melinda Grindstaff. The other child was Ernistine Berry (11-16-1857_-3-10-1917.)

There is some other people I talked to who have a Davis line. They spell Asa Davis name Assa Davis. He had a son Name John who had a son name Jake who had a daughter name Etta Davis who married Walter Alexander Moore. I am related to this set of Moores. The spelling of Assa is the same throughout their message. I am going to see the Moore family after the first of the year.

Would like to hear some good news about the family history!!!!!!!

My sister Dee sent off for my grandfather Frank Little Davis death certificate. They had his birth year 1887 instead of 1888.If 1887 is correct then the whole list of years of birth for James and telida Davis children are wrong.Not the kind of news anybody wants to hear.

Would like to hear from you

Louise

Marcella:

The 1860 Carter County census shows Charles Davis, age 70 and Martha, age 65, this don't match the age of birth for Charles you have on the site and I have found on another site that shows Martha and Charles was married in 1833, so Asa was not a child of Martha according to this, I also found Martha's Parents in Virginia and her father died in Washington County, Tennessee and his will is with the site I found on him. I still think the children I found living in the same area of Charles in Carter County are his and that he had these children by a previous marriage dating back to about 1812 when he was about 22 years old. When I first found him in Carter County in the 1840 census this showad he had 7 children at the time and some of them were already married by this time.

Ray

Hi Marcella
I Got a N.C. Death certificate for Serah Davis Bryant, from a GG Grandaughter of David Carter Davis that she had sent off for and it list Charles Davis and Mary Bennett as her Father and Mother. She say's this is Asa's sister. Have you seen anything in your research  that listed Mary Bennett as Charles first wife.

I have seen the North Carolina  Charles Davis who married Patsy Bennett who's Father was also named Charles Davis.
Regards
Doc
 

Ray,

Here is what I find in my micro film copies of Census records for Charles & Martha Davis ...

1850 Census: Charles 68 = b 1782

                     Martha 61 = b 1789

1850 Census: Charles 70 = b 1790             (might as well hold at 39 HAHA)

JAMES DAVIS

JAMES DAVIS OF DAVIS FANCY

By Joseph Ball

My mother's ancestor, James Davis, first of the family to come to the Colonies, gained a niche in written histories of Southwestern Virginia when he pioneered with his family into Cherokee Country about 1747 and became one of the first, of not the very first, permanent settler to own and live upon land in the upper reaches of Holston Valley, on the headwaters of the Middle Fork of the Holston River, known then as Indian River. We find this property of James Davis designated in the court records from the beginning as "Davis' Fancy."In the following account I am concerned essentially with the first two generations of the family: that is, James and his wife Agnus, and sons Samuel, WIlliam, Henry, Robert, Joseph, and James, Jr. Some of the younger sons are probably sons of Agnus, while the older ones (at least William, Henry and Samuel) must be from an earlier marriage. It is not possible to be more definite than this.

According to the book entitled History of Southwest Virginia, 1746-1786, Washington County, 1777-1870 by Lewis Preston Summers written in 1903, "Stephen Holston, who settled at the head spring of the Middle Fork of Holston some time prior to 1748, did not remain long at this place, but sold his right to James Davis, who, on the 19th of March, 1748 had John Buchanan, deputy surveyor of Augusta County, to survey for him at this point a tract of land containing 1,300 acres, to which he gave the name of "Davis' Fancy," and descendants of James Davis occupy a portion of this land to this day".

In the Lawrence Co KY History Book, published by the Lawrence Co Society, in Louisa, there is an article by Stephen R. Brackett concerning the church at Border's Chapel. In it, he lists JOSEPH DAVIS JR. as being a grandson of James Davis of "Davis Fancy" and a Revolutionary War Soldier

Abstracts of Rev. War Pension files: Davis, Joseph S15399, VA Line, sol lived in Washington Cty VA at enl, sol appl 8 Feb 1834 Lawrence Cty KY aged 70 & in 1843 sol was living in Johnson Cty KY.

http://geo.yahoo.com/serv?s=76001074&t=1073251572

                     Martha 65 = b 1795               (her too!)

Your guess is as good as mine. What are we supposed to do when they can't read and they don't know how old they are?
Marcella   

Marcella:

Re: Charles Davis.

That is what I did, it would be nice to find out who his 1st wife was, for I believe all the children are by her, except one girl that appears to be his and Martha's.

Ray 

I agree that is possible. Marcella

Marcella,

A little food for thought: When we last found Asa Davis and Susannah Whitehead in the census was in Limestone Cove, I did a little checking on the location of this cove and found out this Road is headed up in Unicoi, Tennessee, this is between Johnson City and Erwin just off now Interstate 26, if we follow the road up Limestone Cove we would wind up in North Carolina near Bakersville, (the reason for the Bakersville Post Office) now this is a gap in the mountain chain that the early settlers had to take coming from the south east, as this is the direction it takes through the gap, now when up go up this road a ways fron Unicoi there is a branch in the road, this is the to Dennis Cove and it travels more east around the mountain toward Roan Mountain, now that we have the location lets look a reality, in the late 1700's the Cherokee were told to go west, well there were several that did not want to do this because of the great hunting in the area at the time and the fact that they just didn't want to go west, because this was their home, so they settled several coves along the mountain chain where there was game and water, this was the case with my family that is still why I have lots of Cherokee in me, now back to Charlie Davis which was first in the Dennis Cove area as best as we can tell, we first found him here in 1840 it is very possible he was here earlier and the census taker just didn't go into the area as it was still in the wilds, now his first wife could have been Cherokee is why one of the census people had the note that one of the children was black, you have heard of Cades Cove I'm sure, well it was settled by the Cherokee that married into the Burchfield and Tipton lines and they came to Carter County later one.

Ray