Jessamine County KyArchives Biographies.....Davis, Charles E October 22 1758 - February 1 1807
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Thomas S Smith tom.smith@verizon.net August 19, 2004, 11:56 pm

Author: Tom Smith
Charles Edwin Davis was my 5xGreat-Grandfather on my mother's side of my family.
 Charles Davis was born October 22, 1758 in Spotsylvania, County, Virginia on a
plantation of over 400 acres called, "Broadfield", probably in Berkley Parish. 
He was next to the youngest in age of his ten brothers and sisters, two of which
had died young.  He was the son of James Conway Davis and Mary Elizabeth
(Carter) Davis of Spotsylvania County.  He was tutored by Mr. Winslow as was all
his brothers and sisters.  They lived in a two story home with wooden dormers
and part brick or stone exterior.  Charles had entered into a trade as an
apprentice under a man named Carter, probably working with leather, perhaps
saddlemaking.  When the American Revolution started Charles enlisted in the
Virginia Continental Line as a soldier and successfully completed his
enlistment.  After he was discharged he joined the light horse unit under Col
White.  He was serving in North Carolina about 25 miles north of George Town on
the Sandee River when they engaged British Grenadiers and was seriously wounded;
his left arm cut so deep as to be close to having been severed.  He lost the use
of many or most of the muscles needed for use of his left hand.  He was unable
to complete his enlistment with the light horse and "repaired" to Culpepper Co.
VA to try to recover and heal.  He married Hannah Gaines there in 1783 and had
received a pension from the State of Virginia in recognition of his war service.
 He moved his family to Jessamine County, Kentucky in 1796, near the county line
with Woodford County, KY where his younger brother Thomas W Davis and family
lived by Sinking Creek.  Charles E Davis died in Jessamine County in 1807 by his
widow's statement.  His son James B Davis, born 1785, moved to Cass County,
Illinois in 1835.  I do not know how long Hannah his widow and the four other
children lived there.  Charles and Hannah Davis children were Elizabeth Davis,
James B Davis,  Nancy Davis, Polly Davis and Sarah Davis.  Elizabeth  Davis
married Samuel White, James B Davis married Elizabeth Hawkins,  Nancy Davis
married William White and had dau. Mary White who married James Lewis, Polly
Davis married Heartwell Heath, and Sarah (Sally) Davis married Hickman Kersey.

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