Land: Deed from James Davis to Israel Davis (1757): Chester Co., PA Contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by Sam D. Lawson . Copyright. All Rights Reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/pa/pafiles.htm ********************************************************* Pennsylania Wills Chester County DAVIS, James- Tredyffrin 27 February, 1773- Codicil 25 October, 1773 Proven 30 November, 1773 Mentions settlement already made for wife, Elizabeth, during lifetime. To son, Jacob DAVIS, 50 pounds. To son, Israel DAVIS, 1 shilling. To Grandson, Methuselah DAVIS, 40 pounds. To Grandson, James DAVIS, 57 pounds at 21 years of age. To Grandson, Joseph DAVIS, 40 pounds at 21 years of age. To Grandson, Israel DAVIS, 40 pounds. To Granddaughter, Rachel, 40 pounds at 18 years of age. To Granddaughter, Leah DAVIS, 63 pounds at 18 years of age. To Grandson, Joshua DAVIS, 40 pounds at 21 years of age. To Beninah DAVIS, youngest daughter of son, Israel DAVIS, 50 pounds at 18 years of age. To Grandson, James DAVIS, plantation in Charlestown, where my son, Israel DAVIS, now lives, his father to have same until he is 21 years of age. Exec: Joshua EVANS of Willistown, and Grandson, James DAVIS Witnesses: David GRIFFITH, Eb. GRIFFITH, and John GRIFFITH Our James DAVIS was definitely in the Chester County area of Pennsylvania. I have court records and a witness in this Fayette County, Pa. land case states that James DAVIS was living in the Valley Forge area of Pennsylvania when General Washington wintered his troops there during the Revolutionary War. James was "living with an uncle"...James DAVIS and Keziah PHILLIPS would go on to have this family: 1. Samuel DAVIS, born 6 December, 1785. 2. Joshua DAVIS, born 10 July, 1787, and married to Catherine (AMBROSE), born 26 July, 1793, and died 5 April, 1872. Joshua DAVIS died 20 February, 1816, leaving his widow and two daughters: Keziah, born 7 September, 1812, and died 14 May, 1833,and Sarah, born 26 July, 1815, and died 2 June, 1841, leaving a son, James D. CUSTER. (Sarah DAVIS married to Isaiah CUSTER on 11 February, 1840. Isaiah CUSTER was born 26 November, 1815, and died 15 November, 1890) On the 1850 Fayette County, Pa. Census, his widow, Catherine (AMBROSE) DAVIS, is living with her children "AND" the elderly father-in-law, James DAVIS (1761-1850)...Catherine (AMBROSE) DAVIS' Will in Willbook 4, Page 393, and probated in 1872. There is another Catherine F. Will, probate in 1887, Willbook 6, Page 393... OUR LINE- ***3. Zachariah DAVIS, born 10 January, 1789, died in Franklin County, Indiana, on 6 July, 1859. He married in the fall of 1813 to Hannah DAVIS, born on 23 March, 1795, to Meshach DAVIS and Nancy Ann LEWIS. (Meshach DAVIS was in turn a son of old Owen DAVIS (5 December, 1725- 7 July, 1810). Hannah (DAVIS) DAVIS died 23 February, 1887, in Franklin County, Indiana. Zachariah and Hannah are both buried in the Big Cedar Church Cemetery on Liberty Pike in Franklin County, Indiana. Zachariah is buried in Grave# 7, Lot# 7, and Hannah is buried in Grave# 6, Lot# 7. Zachariah and his wife, along with her parent's family moved to Butler County, Ohio, near Reiley and Oxford, about spring of 1814. Zachariah and Hannah moved on across the state line about 1817 into Franklin County, Indiana, near Bath, at Colter's Corner (Land Patent Grant- Bath Township, Franklin Co., In., Township 10 north, Range 1 west, South East quarter of Section 32, 28 October, 1814). This is our line, and the line that eventually ended up in Harrison County, Indiana...near Corydon. Zachariah "Zachery" DAVIS and Hannah DAVIS had the following children: 3a. Oliver DAVIS, born about 1819, died before 1887. 3b. Rachel DAVIS, born about 1825, died before 1887. 3c. Samuel DAVIS, born 28 March, 1831, died 12 March, 1920. He married to Caroline SHULTZ, the daughter of Henry and Elizabeth (NEVIUS), pronounced "NEPHEWS" by some...SHULTZ. Caroline was born 21 February, 1838. They are buried in Franklin County, Indiana. 3d. John DAVIS, born about 1834, died before 1887. 3e. Robert Nelson DAVIS, born 11 June, 1836, in Franklin County, Indiana. He died in Elwood, Madison County, Indiana, on 26 February, 1924. He married to Mary SHULTZ, a daughter of Johannes "John" SHULTZ and Catherine COX. Mary (SHULTZ) DAVIS was born 22 October, 1838, Franklin County, Indiana, and died at Evans Landing, Harrison County, Indiana, on 10 October, 1911. Robert Nelson DAVIS and Mary SHULTZ were married in Franklin County, Indiana, on 16 October, 1856 (Book 7, Page 243). Robert Nelson DAVIS and his wife are both buried at the Evans Landing Presbyterian Church in Harrison County, Indiana. Robert Nelson and Mary (SHULTZ) DAVIS had: 3ea. Isa Dora M. DAVIS, born about 1858, in Franklin County, Indiana. Dora married in Franklin County, Indiana, on 30 September, 1879 (Book 10, Page 413) to John J. ALLEN. They lived at Elwood, Madison County, Indiana. Their three children that we're aware of are: 3eaa. Emmett ALLEN, who married Golda ____. They lived at Lagra, Indiana. Their children were: 3eaaa. Lawrence ALLEN, who married Greta _____.They lived at Lagra, Indiana. Their children were: 3eaaaa. Lloyd ALLEN 3eaaab. Janet ALLEN 3eaaac. Karen ALLEN 3eaab. Walter ALLEN, Walter married ____ _____. They lived in Elwood, Madison County, Indiana. 3eab. Chester ALLEN, who married to Mabel ESTES. They lived at Elwood, Madison County, Indiana. Chester and Mabel had children: 3eaba. William ALLEN, of Elwood, Madison County, Indiana. 3eabb. Karl ALLEN, He married Jackie _____. They lived in Indianapolis, Marion County, Indiana. They had: 3fhhabba, Terry ALLEN; 3fhhabbb, Marcia ALLEN; and 3fhhabbc, Sharen ALLEN. 3eabc. Gene ALLEN, He married Wilma _____. They had: 3fhhabca, James ALLEN; 3fhhabcb, Jeanne ALLEN; and 3fhhabcc, Kathy Jane ALLEN. 3eabd. Bruce ALLEN, of Novata, California. 3eabe. Don ALLEN, He married Ann _____. They lived at Anderson, Madison County, Indiana. Their child was: 3fhabea, Dianna ALLEN. 3eabf. Howard ALLEN, He married ____ _____. They lived in Tampa, Florida. 3eabg. Clarabelle ALLEN, She married to Ton DAVIS. They were from Ukiah, California. Their child was: 3fhhabga, Tony DAVIS. 3eabh. Mary Ilene ALLEN, She married Pat WILLIAMS. They lived in Long Beach, California. Their children are: 3eabha. Barbara WILLIAMS 3eabhb. Richie WILLIAMS 3eabhc. Louise WILLIAMS 3eabhd. John Chester WILLIAMS 3eac. Mary ALLEN, She lived in Elwood, Madison County, Indiana. She was teacher and a librarian in the Elwood school system. 3eb. John W. DAVIS, born about 1859, in Franklin County, Indiana, and died in 1925, in Corydon, Indiana. He married Rachel Sannie O'BANNON in Harrison County, Indiana, on 23 November, 1887 (Book H-38, Page 154 or Book K, Page 388). Rachel was born about 1867 to Presley and ____ (FERREE) O'BANNON, and died in 1920. John and Rachel (O'BANNON) DAVIS lived in New Albany, Indiana. Their child was: 3eba. Annis L. DAVIS, who married Matthew Dowling McGRAIN. They lived at Corydon, Harrison County, Indiana. Their child was: 3ebaa. Thomas D. McGRAIN, who married Christine B. SCHAEFER. Their children were: 3ebaaa. Timmy McGRAIN 3ebaab. Jill McGRAIN 3ec. Perry Morton DAVIS, born 4 January, 1863, in Springfield Township, Franklin County, Indiana, and died 25 August, 1923, at the Deaconess Hospital, in Louisville, Jefferson County, Kentucky. He married Elizabeth C. MEISNER in Harrison County, Indiana, on 16 October, 1883 (Book H-38, Page 44 or Book J, Page 255). Elizabeth C. MEISNER was the daughter of Henry Christopher MEISNER and Susan BARGER, and born about 1863, in Harrison County, Indiana, probably in Boone Township. She died 2 December, 1898, in Harrison County, Indiana (That is said to be the reason why Benjamin Harrison DAVIS was always so sad at Christmas time). Morton and Elizabeth lived at Evan's Landing in Harrison County, Indiana, about 12 miles south of Elizabeth. Perry Morton DAVIS' obituary reads: Perry Morton DAVIS, of Evan's Landing, passed away Friday night, 25 August, 1923, at the Deaconess Hospital in Louisville, Kentucky, where he was taken a few days before for medical treatment. Mr. DAVIS suffered from an abscess on the side of his head which became infected and blood poison developed and later pneumonia which hastened his death. The deceased was sixty years old. He had been married twice. Five children by his first marriage to Lizzie MEISNER survive him, also his second wife, Mrs. Winnie (PALMER) DAVIS. His children are B.H. DAVIS, of Columbus, Indiana; L.T. DAVIS, of Laconia, Indiana; Mrs. Mabel WOOD, of Big Springs, Texas; Mrs, Lillian ASHTON, of Laconia, Indiana; and Mrs. Vada BERRY, of Evan's Landing, Indiana. His aged father, Robert Nelson DAVIS, of Elwood, Indiana, a sister, Mrs. Dora ALLEN, of Elwood, Indiana; and two brothers, James DAVIS, of Louisville, Kentucky, and John DAVIS, of New Albany, Indiana, survive him. He leaves fourteen grandchildren. Mr. DAVIS was a member of the Evan's Landing Presbyterian Church. Funeral services held at the Evan's Landing on Sunday afternoon and a large concourse of relatives and friends attended. The Rev. C.D. BOWMAN, of Granite City, Illinois, a former pastor in this county, conducted the impressive funeral service. All the family and near relatives attended the funeral excepting the aged father. Winefred (PALMER) DAVIS was born in May, 1878, in Kentucky, and died in 1962 and is buried at the Evan's Landing Presbyterian Church Cemetery, Harrison County, Indiana. We assume her parents were Joseph R. and Edith M. PALMER for they are buried nearby. Winnie was Morton's second wife. They had no children. On the 1900 Harrison County, Indiana Census, Winnie is shown in the DAVIS houshold as a "housekeeper". There was Morton and the five children...and Elizabeth, Morton's first wife, had died by then... Perry Morton and Elizabeth had these children before she died: 3eca. Mabel DAVIS, born in September, 1885, in Nebraska. She married first to Loren TEAGARDEN. They lived in Texarkana, Texas. They had children: 3ecaa. Laurine TEAGARDEN, who married ____ RICHTER. They lived in St. Louis, Missouri. Their children were: 3ecaaa. Virginia RICHTER. She married Melvin VANNEMAN. Their children are: 3ecaaaa. Melvin VANNEMAN, Jr. 3ecaaab. Madeline VANNEMAN 3ecaaac. Gary VANNEMAN 3fhhcaab. Mabel RICHTER. She married Homer HEIDGER. Their children are: 3ecaaba. Rickie HEIDGER 3ecaabb. Janice HEIDGER 3ecaabc. Sharon HEIDGER 3ecab. Marjorie TEAGARDEN, who married _____ HILDRETH. They lived in Texarkana, Texas. Their children were: 3ecaba. Bette HILDRETH. She married Melvin CONNERLY. They lived at Pasas Roebles, California. Their children are: 3ecabaa. Deborah CONNERLY 3ecabab. Jay Tommy CONNERLY 3ecabb. Billy S. HILDRETH. He married and had a son: 3ecabba. Bradley HILDRETH 3ecabc. Tommy HILDRETH. She married T.D. CUMMINGS, Jr. They lived at Texarkana, Texas. Their children are: 3ecabca. Janet CUMMINGS 3ecabcb. Jerry CUMMINGS After Loren TEAGARDEN died, Mabel remarried her second husband, V.D. WOOD, Sr. V.D. WOOD, Sr. was mostly, or at least half, American Indian. Their children were: 3ecac. V.D. Wood, Jr., who graduated from Texas A&M in June, 1941. He went into the U.S. Army as a 2nd Lieutenant. He was commander of the ROTC at one of the Washington universities. He married Eleanor _____. They lived at Fort Monroe, Virginia. Their child was: 3ecaca. Robert WOOD 3ecad. Robert WOOD, who was killed in the first week or two of the Korean War as a Lieutenant