Caddo County LAArchives Tombstones.....Shadowens/Chaudoin, Mary Ann Davis
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Carole Ann Hall-Zoebel  cahallzoe@bresnan.net Nov 1998

Mary Ann Davis Shadowens/Chaudoin

She is the daughter of Elizabeth Studdard-Davis and Nathan Davis.  
She was the wife of Samuel H. Shadowens/Chaudoin. They were married on 28 December 1868, in Panola, County, Texas.
In his application for pension, dated Dec 9 1899, he claimed to have been born in 1838, in Panola County Texas. 
There is a stone marker next to Mary Ann, this may be his. But the marker if it was wooden is long since gone. 
He claimed on his application for pension, that he suffered from dropsy, acquired in the spring of 1862 at Corinth Miss. 
He was in the CSA hospital for the entire war. He was in the CSA enlisting in 1861, WC 16th Reg. Louisiana Vol. Co of 
Preston Pond. He was the owner of Survey A696, Panola County Doc. Land Grand Anson/Jones. Mary Ann Davis-Shadownes/Chaudoin 
and Samuel H. Shadowens/Chaudoin had 5 children: Willie Ann, Elizabeth, Henry, James E. and Coffee D. Shadowens/Chaudoin.

Note: the name Shadowens, was the name given to the children at school by their teacher, it was actually Chaudoin and they 
were of French ancestry, but the way they pronounced the name, the teacher spelled it Shadowens.