BIO:  DAVIDSON, Thomas E., s/o Daniel & Mary (Enochs) Davidson

Submitted by:  ivie@tima.com    (Diana Flynn)

DAVIDSON,   ENOCHS,   GOBIN,   MCCLANAHAN

"HISTORY OF GREENE AND SULLIVAN COUNTIES, STATE OF
INDIANA, FROM THE EARLIEST TIME TO THE PRESENT; TOGETHER WITH INTERESTING
BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES, REMINISCENCES, NOTES, ETC." CHICAGO: GOODSPEED BROS.
& CO.,  PUBLISHERS. 1884.

SULLIVAN CO., INDIANA
HADDON TWP.
PAGE 749
THOMAS E. DAVIDSON, one of the principal farmers of Haddon
Township, is a native of Sullivan County, Ind., and was born September 26,
1819, on the same farm where he now lives.  His parents were Daniel and
Mary (Enochs) Davidson, from Kentucky, who bore a family of ten children,
and were among the influential people of their community.  Our subject
received a common school education in the early schools according to the
pioneer methods of teaching.  Elizabeth Gobin became his wife on May 24,
1849, and by her he is the father of nine children, these seven now living:
Charles C., Fannie, Benjamin R., Elizabeth, Thomas F., Caroline and Cora,
born respectively December 10, 1851, March 7, 1853, September 21, 1854, May
14, 1857, October 15, 1858, May 15, 1860, and March 15, 1862.  Mrs.
Davidson was born March 9, 1825, daughter of William and Sophia
(McClanahan) Gobin.  Mr. D. has farmed most of his life, and has done
considerable shipping of stock and produce by boats to New Orleans.  He now
owns about 500 acres of good farming land, highly improved.  Mrs. Davidson
is a member of the Presbyterian Church at Carlisle.  Subject engaged in
cotton-raising soon after the war, and tells some interesting stories of
his adventures in the South land.  He is a Democrat.
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