Wayne County IN Archives Biographies.....Davis, Charles June 6, 1841 - 
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Author: History of Wayne County, Indiana;Volume II, (1884)

Harrison Township
p. 502 & 503

Charles Davis was born in Clay Township, Wayne Co., Ind., June 6, 1841, the 
fourth of a family of eight children of Joseph and Hannah (Morgan) Davis, and 
grandson of Harman Davis, who laid out the town of Dublin, Wayne County. His 
father was born in 1800 in Virginia, and came to Wayne County in an early day. 
His wife was a relative of Morgan, who was killed by the Indians, and her 
parents were among the first settlers on Morgan's Creek. Mr. Davis married 
Martha Fowler for his second wife, and removed to Milton, Wayne County, where 
he was connected with the Hoosier Drill Manufacturing Company a number of 
years. He died in 1868, in Wayne County. His children were---Eliza (deceased), 
George, Benjamin, William, Harmon, Isaac, Ella and Charles. Our subject was 
reared a farmer, and obtained a good education in the county schools. July 4, 
1861, he enlisted in Company B, Nineteenth Indiana Infantry, and participated 
in the battles of Bull Run, Fredericksburg, Chancellorsville, Gettysburg 
(where he was promoted Sergeant of his company), Mine Run and Welden Railroad. 
He was wounded at the battle of Second Bull Run, which disabled him for six 
months. He was discharged in 1864, and after his return home he was engaged 
with T. B. French in the livery business in Richmond, Ind., two years. He was 
married in 1866 to Sarah A., daughter of Henry and Aseneth Hoover, of Wayne 
County. Of the four children born to them but one is living---John, born Jan. 
19, 1875. Henry, Larkin, and a daughter unnamed are deceased. After his 
marriage Mr. Davis followed farming on the Hoover farm several years, and 
farmed near Milton four years. In 1872 he became owner of 160 acres of the 
Hoover farm, where he has since been successfully engaged. In politics he 
affiliates with the Republican party.


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