Henry Davis
Born: c1780/1781 in Caswell County, North Carolina, son of Bazzle and "Fannie" Frances Davis.
Died: Probably 1840 after the Murray County Census was taken, certainly before 1850 at Pleasant Valley (Eton), Murray County, Georgia. On August 4, 1840, a young A.J. Davis sold 73 acres of land to Chilion Packard in Murray County, maybe a clue that his father Henry Davis had died.
Pleasant Valley is the historic name of the stagecoach stop town on the Federal Road which had a post office, where Chilion Packard in 1840 bought land, was a store merchant, and was postmaster in the 1840's (see the Murray County History).
"Not much is known of the Davis family. Henry Davis, age 30, Aunt Teen thinks, married Betsy Miller, age 15, in Tennessee. They became the parents of 14 children, 13 of whom lived to be "men and women grown," as she often said. "Grandmother was Irish, and Grandfather was Welsh." --- from dictation notes taken by Sarah Emma Barber on July 2, 1923, at Cisco, Eastland County, Texas. Emma listened to the recollections of Margaret Corinne Davis Barber (1857-1932), known as Aunt Teen to the Barber children, daughter of A.J. and Sarah Olive Packard Davis (1825-1908).
Henry Davis, about age 30, married "Betsy" Elizabeth Miller, about age 15, on 16 October 1811, in Roane County, Tennessee, daughter of Henry Y. Miller (died 6 Aug 1820) and Martha C. (Wyly) Miller. The marriage bond was witnessed by Bazzle Davis, according to Early East Tennessee Marriages, Vol 1 and 2.
Marriage License of Henry Davis and Elizabeth Miller – Oct. 16, 1811
State of Tennessee – Roane County
Knows all men by their presence that we Henry Davis and Bazd Davis, all of the county of state afore said, our heirs who are jointly and severally held and firmly bound unto his Excellency the Governor of the State of Tennessee and his successors in office in the sum of twelve hundred and fifty dollars to be void on condition that there be no lawful cause to prevent a marriage shortly intended to be solemnized between Henry Davis and Elizabeth Miller to be joined together in the holy state of matrimony.
Witness our hand – seal this 16 day of October 1811
Attest Henry Davis – Seal
J. Purris Bazd Davis – Seal
---from Roane County, Tennessee Marriage Bond and License Book.
The 1850 Murray County Census gives widow Elizabeth Davis (age 54, born c1796 in TN) living in the household of Chilion Packard (1791-1851), with three of her younger children: John L. (age 20, born c1830 in TN); Elizabeth J. (age 14, born c1836 in GA); and Martha E. (age 12, born c1838 in GA). Her son, Alfred J. Davis (age 32, born c1818 in TN) also lived in the merchant Chilion Packard household with his wife Sarah Olive Packard Davis (age 24 in 1850, born 1825 Charleston, SC), with three children in 1850: Charles Chilion, age 6; Ann, age 4; and Olive, age 1.
Corporal Henry Davis served in the War of 1812 in Col. John Brown's Regiment, East Tennessee Volunteers, in Capt. Allen S. Bacon's Company of Volunteer Militia Infantry, made up mostly of Roane County, TN men. Henry Davis commenced service on Sept. 30, 1813, discharged Dec. 30, 1813, and was paid $10 per month for 3 months. His younger, unmarried brother, Littleton Davis, died in the War of 1812. Henry Davis is on the 1812 Roane County tax list, as is Bazzle Davis, William Davis, and Alfred Davis. The 1820 estate of Henry Y. Miller names Henry Davis and wife Betsy (Miller) Davis of Monroe County, TN.
Henry Davis is not listed in the 1830 Roane County Census, but he is listed in the 1834 Murray County, Georgia Census with a household of fifteen. Henry Davis is on a list of winners in the 1832 Georgia Land Lottery in Murray County, when Cherokee lands were granted to white settlers. Henry Davis is listed in the 1840 Murray County Census, with a family of 12 children, 8 boys and 4 girls, and no slaves. The child Eliza J. is listed as age 14 (born Georgia c1836) in the 1850 Murray County Census in the Chilion Packard household.
Henry Davis was the son of Bazzle Davis (c1750-1818), born probably in Maryland, and "Fanny" Frances (unknown), who died after 1820. Bazzle Davis was in Roane County, TN when it was formed in 1801. Two of Henry Davis's brothers stated on their pension applications that they were born in Prince George County, Maryland. The father of Bazzle Davis was another Henry Davis and Bazzle's mother is probably Susannah (unknown). Susannah is listed on baptism records in Prince George Co, Maryland, as the mother of two of Bazzle's younger brothers. They came from Caswell County, NC, by 1798 and were on the 1805 tax list for Roane County, TN. They owned 100 acres on the Tennessee River in 1814. Estate administrators for Bazzle Davis (deceased) were his wife Fanny Davis and her oldest son Alfred Davis, according to a January 1818 Roane County court record and property inventory.
1840 Murray County Georgia Census
Henry Davis – Males 2 (5-10), 2 (15-20), 4 (20-30), 1 (50-60)
Females 2 (0-5), 1 (10-15), 1 (15-20), 1 (40-50) = Total of 14, 8 boys, 4 girls, and no slaves.
1850 Murray County Census, Pleasant Valley (Eton).
Chilion Packard, age 59, merchant, $8000 real estate value, born Massachusetts
Alfred Davis, age 32, farmer, born TN
Sarah Davis, age 24, born SC (Sarah Olive Packard Davis, 1825-1908)
CC (Charles Chilion Davis), age 6, born GA
Ann, age 4, born GA
Olive, age 1, born GA
Elizabeth Davis, age 54, born TN (Widow of Henry Davis)
John L. Davis, age 20, born TN
Elizabeth J. Davis, age 14, born Ga
Martha E. Davis, age 12, born GA
Elizabeth "Betsy" (Miller) Davis – Wife of Henry Davis
Born: c1796 in Tennessee, daughter of Henry Y. Miller and Martha C. Wyly Miller. Elizabeth was age 54 in the 1850 Census of Murray County, Georgia, living in the household of Chilion Packard.
Elizabeth Miller married Henry Davis on October 16, 1811 in Roane County, TN. She is recorded as age 54 in the 1850 Murray County, Georgia Census, living in the household of Chilion Packard with three of her children (John L. Davis, Eliza J. Davis, and Martha E. Davis), and with her son, Alfred Jasper Davis and his wife Sarah Olive Packard Davis, and their family.
Died: after 1852 at Pleasant Valley, Murray County, Georgia, probably in the home of A.J. and Sarah Olive Packard Davis. Chilion Packard (1791-1851) died in 1851, at age sixty, as written in the A.J. and Sarah O. Davis Bible.
Margarette Corinne Davis Barber said in notes that were recorded by Sarah Emma Barber in 1923, that "Betsy" Miller was age 15 when she married Henry Davis, who was 30. Most of the children of Henry and Elizabeth Davis were born in Roane County, TN. She said her Grandfather Henry Davis was Welsh and Elizabeth Miller Davis was Irish.
Children of Henry Davis and "Betsy" Elizabeth Miller Davis, born from 1814 to 1838:
Walton K. Davis B: c1814, Roane County, TN, married Margaret Ragan on 26 Mar. 1839, Murray Co, GA.
Marion Davis B: c1816, Roane County, TN, married Elizabeth Ballew in 1856, Murray County, Georgia.
Littleton Horace Davis B: c1815 Roane Co, TN D: 1905 at Couch, Oregon Co, MO., Mar. (1) "Mina" Jemima Maddox on 4 Mar 1841, Murray Co., GA. Jemima Maddox (born 1825 in GA and died 25 Aug 1861, Oregon Co., MO – See 1860 Census in Oregon County).
Children in 1850 Murray Co, GA: John W., age 9; L.H, age 7; L.D., age 3; Mary E., age 2; and Joseph Hankins, age 22, laborer, born TN.
Littleton Horace Davis married (2) Mary Ann DuBoise in 1863 (born 1820 in TN; died 4 Feb 1883, Couch, Oregon Co., MO. Littleton is mentioned as "Uncle Lit" in the March 1893 long letter written by Charles Chilion Davis (1844- 1923).
Henry Bazzle Davis Born: 26 April 1817 in Roane County, Tennessee, Died: 13 April 1882, near Cleveland, Bradley County, Tennessee. (see Find A Grave). Married Nancy Pickens (born 14 Sept 1817, Pendleton District, SC), on 30 Nov 1838, McMinn Co, TN.
The will of Henry B. Davis stated that he owned 83 acres on the Cleveland and Charleston road, where they lived. According to the Goodspeed Biographies of Bradley County Citizens (article on John P. Davis), Nancy Pickens was born 14 Sept 1817, Pendleton District, SC. Henry and Nancy Davis were members of the Methodist Church. Henry B. Davis, who was a Republican and supported the Union, organized the stock company that built the Cleveland Flouring Mill, where he was superintendent. After the Civil War, he established the first bank in Cleveland, TN.
In the 1860 Census, Henry Bazzle Davis, age 43, a farmer, born in Tennessee, was living at Cleveland, Bradley County, TN. He had real estate of $5000 and personal estate of $1000. His wife was Nancy, age 42, born in South Carolina. The children, all six born in Tennessee, were: Mary E., age 20; John P., age 17 (born 23 April 1843); Lillie Ann, age 14; Solama J., age 6, female, Emma C., age 4, and Martha F., age 2.
In April 1861 a nephew, Charles Chilion Davis (1844-1923) of Pleasant Valley (now Eton), Murray County, Georgia, son of Alfred Jasper Davis and Sarah Olive Packard Davis, was a student at Professor Burkett's School of Higher Learning in Cleveland, TN. Charles C. Davis, about age 17, was staying at the home of Uncle Henry B. and Aunt Nancy Pickens Davis, when he wrote a letter saying Uncle Henry Davis and Aunt Nancy Davis had six children at home, one being named as Lillie. Uncle Henry B. Davis supported the Union, as told in the two historic letters from Cleveland, as written by young Charles Chilion Davis in April 1861.
In 1870, Henry B. Davis, age 53, was a dry goods merchant at Cleveland, TN, with $9000 in real estate and $11000 in personal estate. Nancy was age 52, but listed as born in TN. Mary E. was age 25; Lillie A., age 23; Soloma J., age 16; and Emma C., age 13. Sarah, age 16, was a black, domestic servant, and William, age 10, was a black, farm laborer, and Samuel Hoyl was age 19, mulatto, a farm laborer.
John Pickens Davis (born 23 April 1843-died before 1923), planter and miller of Bradley County, TN,
married Caroline Cleveland on 20 Sept 1866. Caroline Cleveland was born in Bradley Co., TN, 30 Oct 1847.
See the Goodspeed biography of John P. Davis.
The Web page, "Descendants of Bazil Davis," lists the children as: Mary, 1842; John Pickens, 1843, married Caroline Cleveland; Lillie Ann, 1846, Solama J., 1854; Emma C., 1856; and Martha F., 1858.
+Alfred Jasper Davis Born: c1818 in Roane County, Tennessee to Henry and Elizabeth Davis.
Died: 15 Aug. 1869, Rutledge, Crenshaw County, Alabama, age 51, as written in the A.J. and Sarah Olive Davis Bible.
Married Sarah Olive Packard at Pleasant Valley, Murray County, Georgia, on August 16, 1842.
A.J. Davis is buried at Vernledge Methodist Cemetery, unmarked grave, Crenshaw County, Alabama.
Sarah Olive Packard (1825-1908) was born in Charleston, SC on 25 Sept 1825, daughter of Dr. Chilion Packard (1791-1851) and Sarah Gordon Roulain Packard, and died near Staff, Eastland County, Texas on 6 March 1908, buried Eastland Cemetery with her daughters, Ary Ann Davis Williamson, Tallulah Agnes Davis Barber and Margarette Corinne Davis Barber. Sarah Olive Packard Davis was the mother of seven children, as given in her 1908 obituary, but one unnamed child died. She was a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church South dating from the 1840's at Pleasant Valley. In 1868 near Rutledge, AL, her husband, A.J. Davis was converted into the Methodist Church as written in her 1908 obituary (see Find A Grave for Sarah Olive Davis (1825-1908), Eastland Cemetery, Eastland, Texas).
In spring 1864, A.J. and Sarah Davis, with their five daughters, fled their nice home and farm on the Federal Road on the south side of Pleasant Valley. They headed south by train, maybe from Dalton. They left their home and property behind at Pleasant Valley to escape dangers and events of the Civil War during the threatening march south of the Union Army of General William T. Sherman.
According to the Davis family story, there was a train fire at Greenville, Butler County, Alabama. The fire burned some of the Davis possessions and caused the family to have to leave the train. A.J. Davis made contact with planter and store owner Jared Phelps Barber (1812-1893) at nearby Barber's Crossroads, where A.J. Davis made an agreement to live on the J.P. Barber plantation in a slave cabin, to survive the war. On July 20, 1864, J.P. Barber sold A.J. Davis 680 acres of land (Butler County BK 3-Page 5) for $6120, but the sale was not filed until July 1, 1873, after A.J. Davis died in 1869. Barber's Crossroads became Rutledge in 1867, the first county seat of the newly formed Crenshaw County. A.J. Davis died in Crenshaw County, age 51, on August 15, 1869.
The daughter Miss Tallulah Agnes Davis (1851-1906) married Peyton Phelps Barber (1849-1929) at Rutledge on Nov. 14, 1867 at the home of J.P. and Mary E. Barber. A.J. Davis died at Rutledge in 1869. In 1870, Peyton P. Barber was a store dry goods merchant at Rutledge. In 1880, grandmother Sarah O. Davis and daughter Corinne lived with Peyton and Tallulah and Peyton was farming. In October 1889, Sarah O. Davis, with daughter Corinne, came to near Staff and Round Mountain, near the Leon River, about seven miles southeast of Eastland in Eastland County, Texas, with the family of Peyton and Tallulah Barber.
The six children of A.J. and Sarah O. Davis, all born at Pleasant Valley, Murray County, Georgia: There was another child (unnamed) who died very young.
Charles Chilion Davis (June 16, 1844 - Sept. 3, 1923)
Ary Ann Davis Williamson (July 8, 1846 - Jan. 14, 1880)
Olive Lenora Davis Cross (Dec. 10, 1848 - June 24, 1934)
Tallulah Agnes Davis Barber (Jan. 9, 1851 - May 24, 1906)
Sarah Emma Davis (March 6, 1853 - Feb. 27, 1873)
Margarette Corinne Davis Barber (Jan. 14, 1857 - Feb. 12, 1932).
Frankie Davis B: c1820 – died probably 6 July 1893, son of Henry and Elizabeth Miller Davis.
There is a letter dated 15 July 1893 from Spring Place, Georgia written to Sarah Olive Packard Davis, then at Staff, Eastland County, Texas. The letter told that "Brother Franklin" had gone to Chattanooga, where he died suddenly of cholera on 6 July 1893. The letter, written by Joseph H. Parker of Spring Place, GA, said that Franklin's bereaved wife, Martha, was feeble and Lizzie was with them and doing well. See this letter in this document. In the 1860 Murray County Census, Joseph H. Parker, age 25, was a schoolteacher at Spring Place.
Jess Davis B: c1821 - son of Henry and Elizabeth Davis
Ibbie Davis B: c1822 - son of Henry and Elizabeth Davis
Ary Ann Davis B: c1823 - daughter of Henry and Elizabeth Miller Davis
*There was also Ary Ann Davis Williamson (1846-1880), daughter of A.J. and Sarah Olive Packard Davis, who married Esquire Thomas Williamson (1838-1913) and they moved to east of Providence Crossing in Eastland County in 1874.
Elizabeth Davis Born: c1826 Died: after 1850 and before 1860. - daughter of Henry and Elizabeth Davis
Married William Arp on 11 July 1841 in Monroe County, TN.
Children: Elizabeth Arp, c1841; Sarah, c1843; Nancy, c1847.
John L. Davis Born: in Roane County, TN about 1830 - son of Henry and Elizabeth Davis
The 1850 Murray Co, GA Census gives him as age 20, living in the household of Chilion Packard with his mother, Elizabeth Davis. John L. Davis married Lucinda Patty on 18 April 1850 in Roane Co, TN, born about 1824 in Roane County, daughter of Josiah West and Elizabeth (Rooker) Patty. In 1860, John and Lucinda Davis farmed in Rhea County, TN, post office Sulphur Springs, where he was age 48 and she age 36, both born in TN. In 1860, their children were: Elizabeth H., 10; Veruelia C., 9; Josiah P., 6; Sally, 4; and Julia A., age 2.
William Dobson Davis B: c1830 - son of Henry and Elizabeth Davis
A court statement naming Dobson Davis also names Betsy or Elizabeth Miller.
The March 2, 1893 letter written by Charles C. Davis (1844-1923), then living at Davenport, Alabama, states that "W.D. Davis – 1850" could still be read at the top of the north chimney at the old Packard-Davis home at Pleasant Valley in Murray County, Georgia.
Eliza Josephine Davis B: 13 May 1836 in Murray County, GA., D: 1872 in Murray Co, Georgia. - daughter of Henry and Elizabeth Davis. Married John Henry Peoples on 18 Sept. 1851, Murray County, GA.
The 1850 Murray County Census gives her as age 14.
Martha E. Davis B: c1838 in Murray County, GA. - daughter of Henry and Elizabeth Davis, Married C.W. Keith on 20 Jan 1850 in Murray Co, GA. The 1850 Murray County Census gives Martha E. as age as 12 in the household of Chilion Packard.
Comments by Norman Alford.
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Born: c1780/1781 in Caswell County, North Carolina, son of Bazzle and "Fannie" Frances Davis.
Died: Probably 1840 after the Murray County Census was taken, certainly before 1850 at Pleasant Valley (Eton), Murray County, Georgia. On August 4, 1840, a young A.J. Davis sold 73 acres of land to Chilion Packard in Murray County, maybe a clue that his father Henry Davis had died.
Pleasant Valley is the historic name of the stagecoach stop town on the Federal Road which had a post office, where Chilion Packard in 1840 bought land, was a store merchant, and was postmaster in the 1840's (see the Murray County History).
"Not much is known of the Davis family. Henry Davis, age 30, Aunt Teen thinks, married Betsy Miller, age 15, in Tennessee. They became the parents of 14 children, 13 of whom lived to be "men and women grown," as she often said. "Grandmother was Irish, and Grandfather was Welsh." --- from dictation notes taken by Sarah Emma Barber on July 2, 1923, at Cisco, Eastland County, Texas. Emma listened to the recollections of Margaret Corinne Davis Barber (1857-1932), known as Aunt Teen to the Barber children, daughter of A.J. and Sarah Olive Packard Davis (1825-1908).
Henry Davis, about age 30, married "Betsy" Elizabeth Miller, about age 15, on 16 October 1811, in Roane County, Tennessee, daughter of Henry Y. Miller (died 6 Aug 1820) and Martha C. (Wyly) Miller. The marriage bond was witnessed by Bazzle Davis, according to Early East Tennessee Marriages, Vol 1 and 2.
Marriage License of Henry Davis and Elizabeth Miller – Oct. 16, 1811
State of Tennessee – Roane County
Knows all men by their presence that we Henry Davis and Bazd Davis, all of the county of state afore said, our heirs who are jointly and severally held and firmly bound unto his Excellency the Governor of the State of Tennessee and his successors in office in the sum of twelve hundred and fifty dollars to be void on condition that there be no lawful cause to prevent a marriage shortly intended to be solemnized between Henry Davis and Elizabeth Miller to be joined together in the holy state of matrimony.
Witness our hand – seal this 16 day of October 1811
Attest Henry Davis – Seal
J. Purris Bazd Davis – Seal
---from Roane County, Tennessee Marriage Bond and License Book.
The 1850 Murray County Census gives widow Elizabeth Davis (age 54, born c1796 in TN) living in the household of Chilion Packard (1791-1851), with three of her younger children: John L. (age 20, born c1830 in TN); Elizabeth J. (age 14, born c1836 in GA); and Martha E. (age 12, born c1838 in GA). Her son, Alfred J. Davis (age 32, born c1818 in TN) also lived in the merchant Chilion Packard household with his wife Sarah Olive Packard Davis (age 24 in 1850, born 1825 Charleston, SC), with three children in 1850: Charles Chilion, age 6; Ann, age 4; and Olive, age 1.
Corporal Henry Davis served in the War of 1812 in Col. John Brown's Regiment, East Tennessee Volunteers, in Capt. Allen S. Bacon's Company of Volunteer Militia Infantry, made up mostly of Roane County, TN men. Henry Davis commenced service on Sept. 30, 1813, discharged Dec. 30, 1813, and was paid $10 per month for 3 months. His younger, unmarried brother, Littleton Davis, died in the War of 1812. Henry Davis is on the 1812 Roane County tax list, as is Bazzle Davis, William Davis, and Alfred Davis. The 1820 estate of Henry Y. Miller names Henry Davis and wife Betsy (Miller) Davis of Monroe County, TN.
Henry Davis is not listed in the 1830 Roane County Census, but he is listed in the 1834 Murray County, Georgia Census with a household of fifteen. Henry Davis is on a list of winners in the 1832 Georgia Land Lottery in Murray County, when Cherokee lands were granted to white settlers. Henry Davis is listed in the 1840 Murray County Census, with a family of 12 children, 8 boys and 4 girls, and no slaves. The child Eliza J. is listed as age 14 (born Georgia c1836) in the 1850 Murray County Census in the Chilion Packard household.
Henry Davis was the son of Bazzle Davis (c1750-1818), born probably in Maryland, and "Fanny" Frances (unknown), who died after 1820. Bazzle Davis was in Roane County, TN when it was formed in 1801. Two of Henry Davis's brothers stated on their pension applications that they were born in Prince George County, Maryland. The father of Bazzle Davis was another Henry Davis and Bazzle's mother is probably Susannah (unknown). Susannah is listed on baptism records in Prince George Co, Maryland, as the mother of two of Bazzle's younger brothers. They came from Caswell County, NC, by 1798 and were on the 1805 tax list for Roane County, TN. They owned 100 acres on the Tennessee River in 1814. Estate administrators for Bazzle Davis (deceased) were his wife Fanny Davis and her oldest son Alfred Davis, according to a January 1818 Roane County court record and property inventory.
1840 Murray County Georgia Census
Henry Davis – Males 2 (5-10), 2 (15-20), 4 (20-30), 1 (50-60)
Females 2 (0-5), 1 (10-15), 1 (15-20), 1 (40-50) = Total of 14, 8 boys, 4 girls, and no slaves.
1850 Murray County Census, Pleasant Valley (Eton).
Chilion Packard, age 59, merchant, $8000 real estate value, born Massachusetts
Alfred Davis, age 32, farmer, born TN
Sarah Davis, age 24, born SC (Sarah Olive Packard Davis, 1825-1908)
CC (Charles Chilion Davis), age 6, born GA
Ann, age 4, born GA
Olive, age 1, born GA
Elizabeth Davis, age 54, born TN (Widow of Henry Davis)
John L. Davis, age 20, born TN
Elizabeth J. Davis, age 14, born Ga
Martha E. Davis, age 12, born GA
Elizabeth "Betsy" (Miller) Davis – Wife of Henry Davis
Born: c1796 in Tennessee, daughter of Henry Y. Miller and Martha C. Wyly Miller. Elizabeth was age 54 in the 1850 Census of Murray County, Georgia, living in the household of Chilion Packard.
Elizabeth Miller married Henry Davis on October 16, 1811 in Roane County, TN. She is recorded as age 54 in the 1850 Murray County, Georgia Census, living in the household of Chilion Packard with three of her children (John L. Davis, Eliza J. Davis, and Martha E. Davis), and with her son, Alfred Jasper Davis and his wife Sarah Olive Packard Davis, and their family.
Died: after 1852 at Pleasant Valley, Murray County, Georgia, probably in the home of A.J. and Sarah Olive Packard Davis. Chilion Packard (1791-1851) died in 1851, at age sixty, as written in the A.J. and Sarah O. Davis Bible.
Margarette Corinne Davis Barber said in notes that were recorded by Sarah Emma Barber in 1923, that "Betsy" Miller was age 15 when she married Henry Davis, who was 30. Most of the children of Henry and Elizabeth Davis were born in Roane County, TN. She said her Grandfather Henry Davis was Welsh and Elizabeth Miller Davis was Irish.
Children of Henry Davis and "Betsy" Elizabeth Miller Davis, born from 1814 to 1838:
Walton K. Davis B: c1814, Roane County, TN, married Margaret Ragan on 26 Mar. 1839, Murray Co, GA.
Marion Davis B: c1816, Roane County, TN, married Elizabeth Ballew in 1856, Murray County, Georgia.
Littleton Horace Davis B: c1815 Roane Co, TN D: 1905 at Couch, Oregon Co, MO., Mar. (1) "Mina" Jemima Maddox on 4 Mar 1841, Murray Co., GA. Jemima Maddox (born 1825 in GA and died 25 Aug 1861, Oregon Co., MO – See 1860 Census in Oregon County).
Children in 1850 Murray Co, GA: John W., age 9; L.H, age 7; L.D., age 3; Mary E., age 2; and Joseph Hankins, age 22, laborer, born TN.
Littleton Horace Davis married (2) Mary Ann DuBoise in 1863 (born 1820 in TN; died 4 Feb 1883, Couch, Oregon Co., MO. Littleton is mentioned as "Uncle Lit" in the March 1893 long letter written by Charles Chilion Davis (1844- 1923).
Henry Bazzle Davis Born: 26 April 1817 in Roane County, Tennessee, Died: 13 April 1882, near Cleveland, Bradley County, Tennessee. (see Find A Grave). Married Nancy Pickens (born 14 Sept 1817, Pendleton District, SC), on 30 Nov 1838, McMinn Co, TN.
The will of Henry B. Davis stated that he owned 83 acres on the Cleveland and Charleston road, where they lived. According to the Goodspeed Biographies of Bradley County Citizens (article on John P. Davis), Nancy Pickens was born 14 Sept 1817, Pendleton District, SC. Henry and Nancy Davis were members of the Methodist Church. Henry B. Davis, who was a Republican and supported the Union, organized the stock company that built the Cleveland Flouring Mill, where he was superintendent. After the Civil War, he established the first bank in Cleveland, TN.
In the 1860 Census, Henry Bazzle Davis, age 43, a farmer, born in Tennessee, was living at Cleveland, Bradley County, TN. He had real estate of $5000 and personal estate of $1000. His wife was Nancy, age 42, born in South Carolina. The children, all six born in Tennessee, were: Mary E., age 20; John P., age 17 (born 23 April 1843); Lillie Ann, age 14; Solama J., age 6, female, Emma C., age 4, and Martha F., age 2.
In April 1861 a nephew, Charles Chilion Davis (1844-1923) of Pleasant Valley (now Eton), Murray County, Georgia, son of Alfred Jasper Davis and Sarah Olive Packard Davis, was a student at Professor Burkett's School of Higher Learning in Cleveland, TN. Charles C. Davis, about age 17, was staying at the home of Uncle Henry B. and Aunt Nancy Pickens Davis, when he wrote a letter saying Uncle Henry Davis and Aunt Nancy Davis had six children at home, one being named as Lillie. Uncle Henry B. Davis supported the Union, as told in the two historic letters from Cleveland, as written by young Charles Chilion Davis in April 1861.
In 1870, Henry B. Davis, age 53, was a dry goods merchant at Cleveland, TN, with $9000 in real estate and $11000 in personal estate. Nancy was age 52, but listed as born in TN. Mary E. was age 25; Lillie A., age 23; Soloma J., age 16; and Emma C., age 13. Sarah, age 16, was a black, domestic servant, and William, age 10, was a black, farm laborer, and Samuel Hoyl was age 19, mulatto, a farm laborer.
John Pickens Davis (born 23 April 1843-died before 1923), planter and miller of Bradley County, TN,
married Caroline Cleveland on 20 Sept 1866. Caroline Cleveland was born in Bradley Co., TN, 30 Oct 1847.
See the Goodspeed biography of John P. Davis.
The Web page, "Descendants of Bazil Davis," lists the children as: Mary, 1842; John Pickens, 1843, married Caroline Cleveland; Lillie Ann, 1846, Solama J., 1854; Emma C., 1856; and Martha F., 1858.
+Alfred Jasper Davis Born: c1818 in Roane County, Tennessee to Henry and Elizabeth Davis.
Died: 15 Aug. 1869, Rutledge, Crenshaw County, Alabama, age 51, as written in the A.J. and Sarah Olive Davis Bible.
Married Sarah Olive Packard at Pleasant Valley, Murray County, Georgia, on August 16, 1842.
A.J. Davis is buried at Vernledge Methodist Cemetery, unmarked grave, Crenshaw County, Alabama.
Sarah Olive Packard (1825-1908) was born in Charleston, SC on 25 Sept 1825, daughter of Dr. Chilion Packard (1791-1851) and Sarah Gordon Roulain Packard, and died near Staff, Eastland County, Texas on 6 March 1908, buried Eastland Cemetery with her daughters, Ary Ann Davis Williamson, Tallulah Agnes Davis Barber and Margarette Corinne Davis Barber. Sarah Olive Packard Davis was the mother of seven children, as given in her 1908 obituary, but one unnamed child died. She was a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church South dating from the 1840's at Pleasant Valley. In 1868 near Rutledge, AL, her husband, A.J. Davis was converted into the Methodist Church as written in her 1908 obituary (see Find A Grave for Sarah Olive Davis (1825-1908), Eastland Cemetery, Eastland, Texas).
In spring 1864, A.J. and Sarah Davis, with their five daughters, fled their nice home and farm on the Federal Road on the south side of Pleasant Valley. They headed south by train, maybe from Dalton. They left their home and property behind at Pleasant Valley to escape dangers and events of the Civil War during the threatening march south of the Union Army of General William T. Sherman.
According to the Davis family story, there was a train fire at Greenville, Butler County, Alabama. The fire burned some of the Davis possessions and caused the family to have to leave the train. A.J. Davis made contact with planter and store owner Jared Phelps Barber (1812-1893) at nearby Barber's Crossroads, where A.J. Davis made an agreement to live on the J.P. Barber plantation in a slave cabin, to survive the war. On July 20, 1864, J.P. Barber sold A.J. Davis 680 acres of land (Butler County BK 3-Page 5) for $6120, but the sale was not filed until July 1, 1873, after A.J. Davis died in 1869. Barber's Crossroads became Rutledge in 1867, the first county seat of the newly formed Crenshaw County. A.J. Davis died in Crenshaw County, age 51, on August 15, 1869.
The daughter Miss Tallulah Agnes Davis (1851-1906) married Peyton Phelps Barber (1849-1929) at Rutledge on Nov. 14, 1867 at the home of J.P. and Mary E. Barber. A.J. Davis died at Rutledge in 1869. In 1870, Peyton P. Barber was a store dry goods merchant at Rutledge. In 1880, grandmother Sarah O. Davis and daughter Corinne lived with Peyton and Tallulah and Peyton was farming. In October 1889, Sarah O. Davis, with daughter Corinne, came to near Staff and Round Mountain, near the Leon River, about seven miles southeast of Eastland in Eastland County, Texas, with the family of Peyton and Tallulah Barber.
The six children of A.J. and Sarah O. Davis, all born at Pleasant Valley, Murray County, Georgia: There was another child (unnamed) who died very young.
Charles Chilion Davis (June 16, 1844 - Sept. 3, 1923)
Ary Ann Davis Williamson (July 8, 1846 - Jan. 14, 1880)
Olive Lenora Davis Cross (Dec. 10, 1848 - June 24, 1934)
Tallulah Agnes Davis Barber (Jan. 9, 1851 - May 24, 1906)
Sarah Emma Davis (March 6, 1853 - Feb. 27, 1873)
Margarette Corinne Davis Barber (Jan. 14, 1857 - Feb. 12, 1932).
Frankie Davis B: c1820 – died probably 6 July 1893, son of Henry and Elizabeth Miller Davis.
There is a letter dated 15 July 1893 from Spring Place, Georgia written to Sarah Olive Packard Davis, then at Staff, Eastland County, Texas. The letter told that "Brother Franklin" had gone to Chattanooga, where he died suddenly of cholera on 6 July 1893. The letter, written by Joseph H. Parker of Spring Place, GA, said that Franklin's bereaved wife, Martha, was feeble and Lizzie was with them and doing well. See this letter in this document. In the 1860 Murray County Census, Joseph H. Parker, age 25, was a schoolteacher at Spring Place.
Jess Davis B: c1821 - son of Henry and Elizabeth Davis
Ibbie Davis B: c1822 - son of Henry and Elizabeth Davis
Ary Ann Davis B: c1823 - daughter of Henry and Elizabeth Miller Davis
*There was also Ary Ann Davis Williamson (1846-1880), daughter of A.J. and Sarah Olive Packard Davis, who married Esquire Thomas Williamson (1838-1913) and they moved to east of Providence Crossing in Eastland County in 1874.
Elizabeth Davis Born: c1826 Died: after 1850 and before 1860. - daughter of Henry and Elizabeth Davis
Married William Arp on 11 July 1841 in Monroe County, TN.
Children: Elizabeth Arp, c1841; Sarah, c1843; Nancy, c1847.
John L. Davis Born: in Roane County, TN about 1830 - son of Henry and Elizabeth Davis
The 1850 Murray Co, GA Census gives him as age 20, living in the household of Chilion Packard with his mother, Elizabeth Davis. John L. Davis married Lucinda Patty on 18 April 1850 in Roane Co, TN, born about 1824 in Roane County, daughter of Josiah West and Elizabeth (Rooker) Patty. In 1860, John and Lucinda Davis farmed in Rhea County, TN, post office Sulphur Springs, where he was age 48 and she age 36, both born in TN. In 1860, their children were: Elizabeth H., 10; Veruelia C., 9; Josiah P., 6; Sally, 4; and Julia A., age 2.
William Dobson Davis B: c1830 - son of Henry and Elizabeth Davis
A court statement naming Dobson Davis also names Betsy or Elizabeth Miller.
The March 2, 1893 letter written by Charles C. Davis (1844-1923), then living at Davenport, Alabama, states that "W.D. Davis – 1850" could still be read at the top of the north chimney at the old Packard-Davis home at Pleasant Valley in Murray County, Georgia.
Eliza Josephine Davis B: 13 May 1836 in Murray County, GA., D: 1872 in Murray Co, Georgia. - daughter of Henry and Elizabeth Davis. Married John Henry Peoples on 18 Sept. 1851, Murray County, GA.
The 1850 Murray County Census gives her as age 14.
Martha E. Davis B: c1838 in Murray County, GA. - daughter of Henry and Elizabeth Davis, Married C.W. Keith on 20 Jan 1850 in Murray Co, GA. The 1850 Murray County Census gives Martha E. as age as 12 in the household of Chilion Packard.
Comments by Norman Alford.
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Henry Davis
Born: c1780/1781 in Caswell County, North Carolina, son of Bazzle and "Fannie" Frances Davis.
Died: Probably 1840 after the Murray County Census was taken, certainly before 1850 at Pleasant Valley (Eton), Murray County, Georgia. On August 4, 1840, a young A.J. Davis sold 73 acres of land to Chilion Packard in Murray County, maybe a clue that his father Henry Davis had died.
Pleasant Valley is the historic name of the stagecoach stop town on the Federal Road which had a post office, where Chilion Packard in 1840 bought land, was a store merchant, and was postmaster in the 1840's (see the Murray County History).
"Not much is known of the Davis family. Henry Davis, age 30, Aunt Teen thinks, married Betsy Miller, age 15, in Tennessee. They became the parents of 14 children, 13 of whom lived to be "men and women grown," as she often said. "Grandmother was Irish, and Grandfather was Welsh." --- from dictation notes taken by Sarah Emma Barber on July 2, 1923, at Cisco, Eastland County, Texas. Emma listened to the recollections of Margaret Corinne Davis Barber (1857-1932), known as Aunt Teen to the Barber children, daughter of A.J. and Sarah Olive Packard Davis (1825-1908).
Henry Davis, about age 30, married "Betsy" Elizabeth Miller, about age 15, on 16 October 1811, in Roane County, Tennessee, daughter of Henry Y. Miller (died 6 Aug 1820) and Martha C. (Wyly) Miller. The marriage bond was witnessed by Bazzle Davis, according to Early East Tennessee Marriages, Vol 1 and 2.
Marriage License of Henry Davis and Elizabeth Miller – Oct. 16, 1811
State of Tennessee – Roane County
Knows all men by their presence that we Henry Davis and Bazd Davis, all of the county of state afore said, our heirs who are jointly and severally held and firmly bound unto his Excellency the Governor of the State of Tennessee and his successors in office in the sum of twelve hundred and fifty dollars to be void on condition that there be no lawful cause to prevent a marriage shortly intended to be solemnized between Henry Davis and Elizabeth Miller to be joined together in the holy state of matrimony.
Witness our hand – seal this 16 day of October 1811
Attest Henry Davis – Seal
J. Purris Bazd Davis – Seal
---from Roane County, Tennessee Marriage Bond and License Book.
The 1850 Murray County Census gives widow Elizabeth Davis (age 54, born c1796 in TN) living in the household of Chilion Packard (1791-1851), with three of her younger children: John L. (age 20, born c1830 in TN); Elizabeth J. (age 14, born c1836 in GA); and Martha E. (age 12, born c1838 in GA). Her son, Alfred J. Davis (age 32, born c1818 in TN) also lived in the merchant Chilion Packard household with his wife Sarah Olive Packard Davis (age 24 in 1850, born 1825 Charleston, SC), with three children in 1850: Charles Chilion, age 6; Ann, age 4; and Olive, age 1.
Corporal Henry Davis served in the War of 1812 in Col. John Brown's Regiment, East Tennessee Volunteers, in Capt. Allen S. Bacon's Company of Volunteer Militia Infantry, made up mostly of Roane County, TN men. Henry Davis commenced service on Sept. 30, 1813, discharged Dec. 30, 1813, and was paid $10 per month for 3 months. His younger, unmarried brother, Littleton Davis, died in the War of 1812. Henry Davis is on the 1812 Roane County tax list, as is Bazzle Davis, William Davis, and Alfred Davis. The 1820 estate of Henry Y. Miller names Henry Davis and wife Betsy (Miller) Davis of Monroe County, TN.
Henry Davis is not listed in the 1830 Roane County Census, but he is listed in the 1834 Murray County, Georgia Census with a household of fifteen. Henry Davis is on a list of winners in the 1832 Georgia Land Lottery in Murray County, when Cherokee lands were granted to white settlers. Henry Davis is listed in the 1840 Murray County Census, with a family of 12 children, 8 boys and 4 girls, and no slaves. The child Eliza J. is listed as age 14 (born Georgia c1836) in the 1850 Murray County Census in the Chilion Packard household.
Henry Davis was the son of Bazzle Davis (c1750-1818), born probably in Maryland, and "Fanny" Frances (unknown), who died after 1820. Bazzle Davis was in Roane County, TN when it was formed in 1801. Two of Henry Davis's brothers stated on their pension applications that they were born in Prince George County, Maryland. The father of Bazzle Davis was another Henry Davis and Bazzle's mother is probably Susannah (unknown). Susannah is listed on baptism records in Prince George Co, Maryland, as the mother of two of Bazzle's younger brothers. They came from Caswell County, NC, by 1798 and were on the 1805 tax list for Roane County, TN. They owned 100 acres on the Tennessee River in 1814. Estate administrators for Bazzle Davis (deceased) were his wife Fanny Davis and her oldest son Alfred Davis, according to a January 1818 Roane County court record and property inventory.
1840 Murray County Georgia Census
Henry Davis – Males 2 (5-10), 2 (15-20), 4 (20-30), 1 (50-60)
Females 2 (0-5), 1 (10-15), 1 (15-20), 1 (40-50) = Total of 14, 8 boys, 4 girls, and no slaves.
1850 Murray County Census, Pleasant Valley (Eton).
Chilion Packard, age 59, merchant, $8000 real estate value, born Massachusetts
Alfred Davis, age 32, farmer, born TN
Sarah Davis, age 24, born SC (Sarah Olive Packard Davis, 1825-1908)
CC (Charles Chilion Davis), age 6, born GA
Ann, age 4, born GA
Olive, age 1, born GA
Elizabeth Davis, age 54, born TN (Widow of Henry Davis)
John L. Davis, age 20, born TN
Elizabeth J. Davis, age 14, born Ga
Martha E. Davis, age 12, born GA
Elizabeth "Betsy" (Miller) Davis – Wife of Henry Davis
Born: c1796 in Tennessee, daughter of Henry Y. Miller and Martha C. Wyly Miller. Elizabeth was age 54 in the 1850 Census of Murray County, Georgia, living in the household of Chilion Packard.
Elizabeth Miller married Henry Davis on October 16, 1811 in Roane County, TN. She is recorded as age 54 in the 1850 Murray County, Georgia Census, living in the household of Chilion Packard with three of her children (John L. Davis, Eliza J. Davis, and Martha E. Davis), and with her son, Alfred Jasper Davis and his wife Sarah Olive Packard Davis, and their family.
Died: after 1852 at Pleasant Valley, Murray County, Georgia, probably in the home of A.J. and Sarah Olive Packard Davis. Chilion Packard (1791-1851) died in 1851, at age sixty, as written in the A.J. and Sarah O. Davis Bible.
Margarette Corinne Davis Barber said in notes that were recorded by Sarah Emma Barber in 1923, that "Betsy" Miller was age 15 when she married Henry Davis, who was 30. Most of the children of Henry and Elizabeth Davis were born in Roane County, TN. She said her Grandfather Henry Davis was Welsh and Elizabeth Miller Davis was Irish.
Children of Henry Davis and "Betsy" Elizabeth Miller Davis, born from 1814 to 1838:
Walton K. Davis B: c1814, Roane County, TN, married Margaret Ragan on 26 Mar. 1839, Murray Co, GA.
Marion Davis B: c1816, Roane County, TN, married Elizabeth Ballew in 1856, Murray County, Georgia.
Littleton Horace Davis B: c1815 Roane Co, TN D: 1905 at Couch, Oregon Co, MO., Mar. (1) "Mina" Jemima Maddox on 4 Mar 1841, Murray Co., GA. Jemima Maddox (born 1825 in GA and died 25 Aug 1861, Oregon Co., MO – See 1860 Census in Oregon County).
Children in 1850 Murray Co, GA: John W., age 9; L.H, age 7; L.D., age 3; Mary E., age 2; and Joseph Hankins, age 22, laborer, born TN.
Littleton Horace Davis married (2) Mary Ann DuBoise in 1863 (born 1820 in TN; died 4 Feb 1883, Couch, Oregon Co., MO. Littleton is mentioned as "Uncle Lit" in the March 1893 long letter written by Charles Chilion Davis (1844- 1923).
Henry Bazzle Davis Born: 26 April 1817 in Roane County, Tennessee, Died: 13 April 1882, near Cleveland, Bradley County, Tennessee. (see Find A Grave). Married Nancy Pickens (born 14 Sept 1817, Pendleton District, SC), on 30 Nov 1838, McMinn Co, TN.
The will of Henry B. Davis stated that he owned 83 acres on the Cleveland and Charleston road, where they lived. According to the Goodspeed Biographies of Bradley County Citizens (article on John P. Davis), Nancy Pickens was born 14 Sept 1817, Pendleton District, SC. Henry and Nancy Davis were members of the Methodist Church. Henry B. Davis, who was a Republican and supported the Union, organized the stock company that built the Cleveland Flouring Mill, where he was superintendent. After the Civil War, he established the first bank in Cleveland, TN.
In the 1860 Census, Henry Bazzle Davis, age 43, a farmer, born in Tennessee, was living at Cleveland, Bradley County, TN. He had real estate of $5000 and personal estate of $1000. His wife was Nancy, age 42, born in South Carolina. The children, all six born in Tennessee, were: Mary E., age 20; John P., age 17 (born 23 April 1843); Lillie Ann, age 14; Solama J., age 6, female, Emma C., age 4, and Martha F., age 2.
In April 1861 a nephew, Charles Chilion Davis (1844-1923) of Pleasant Valley (now Eton), Murray County, Georgia, son of Alfred Jasper Davis and Sarah Olive Packard Davis, was a student at Professor Burkett's School of Higher Learning in Cleveland, TN. Charles C. Davis, about age 17, was staying at the home of Uncle Henry B. and Aunt Nancy Pickens Davis, when he wrote a letter saying Uncle Henry Davis and Aunt Nancy Davis had six children at home, one being named as Lillie. Uncle Henry B. Davis supported the Union, as told in the two historic letters from Cleveland, as written by young Charles Chilion Davis in April 1861.
In 1870, Henry B. Davis, age 53, was a dry goods merchant at Cleveland, TN, with $9000 in real estate and $11000 in personal estate. Nancy was age 52, but listed as born in TN. Mary E. was age 25; Lillie A., age 23; Soloma J., age 16; and Emma C., age 13. Sarah, age 16, was a black, domestic servant, and William, age 10, was a black, farm laborer, and Samuel Hoyl was age 19, mulatto, a farm laborer.
John Pickens Davis (born 23 April 1843-died before 1923), planter and miller of Bradley County, TN,
married Caroline Cleveland on 20 Sept 1866. Caroline Cleveland was born in Bradley Co., TN, 30 Oct 1847.
See the Goodspeed biography of John P. Davis.
The Web page, "Descendants of Bazil Davis," lists the children as: Mary, 1842; John Pickens, 1843, married Caroline Cleveland; Lillie Ann, 1846, Solama J., 1854; Emma C., 1856; and Martha F., 1858.
+Alfred Jasper Davis Born: c1818 in Roane County, Tennessee to Henry and Elizabeth Davis.
Died: 15 Aug. 1869, Rutledge, Crenshaw County, Alabama, age 51, as written in the A.J. and Sarah Olive Davis Bible.
Married Sarah Olive Packard at Pleasant Valley, Murray County, Georgia, on August 16, 1842.
A.J. Davis is buried at Vernledge Methodist Cemetery, unmarked grave, Crenshaw County, Alabama.
Sarah Olive Packard (1825-1908) was born in Charleston, SC on 25 Sept 1825, daughter of Dr. Chilion Packard (1791-1851) and Sarah Gordon Roulain Packard, and died near Staff, Eastland County, Texas on 6 March 1908, buried Eastland Cemetery with her daughters, Ary Ann Davis Williamson, Tallulah Agnes Davis Barber and Margarette Corinne Davis Barber. Sarah Olive Packard Davis was the mother of seven children, as given in her 1908 obituary, but one unnamed child died. She was a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church South dating from the 1840's at Pleasant Valley. In 1868 near Rutledge, AL, her husband, A.J. Davis was converted into the Methodist Church as written in her 1908 obituary (see Find A Grave for Sarah Olive Davis (1825-1908), Eastland Cemetery, Eastland, Texas).
In spring 1864, A.J. and Sarah Davis, with their five daughters, fled their nice home and farm on the Federal Road on the south side of Pleasant Valley. They headed south by train, maybe from Dalton. They left their home and property behind at Pleasant Valley to escape dangers and events of the Civil War during the threatening march south of the Union Army of General William T. Sherman.
According to the Davis family story, there was a train fire at Greenville, Butler County, Alabama. The fire burned some of the Davis possessions and caused the family to have to leave the train. A.J. Davis made contact with planter and store owner Jared Phelps Barber (1812-1893) at nearby Barber's Crossroads, where A.J. Davis made an agreement to live on the J.P. Barber plantation in a slave cabin, to survive the war. On July 20, 1864, J.P. Barber sold A.J. Davis 680 acres of land (Butler County BK 3-Page 5) for $6120, but the sale was not filed until July 1, 1873, after A.J. Davis died in 1869. Barber's Crossroads became Rutledge in 1867, the first county seat of the newly formed Crenshaw County. A.J. Davis died in Crenshaw County, age 51, on August 15, 1869.
The daughter Miss Tallulah Agnes Davis (1851-1906) married Peyton Phelps Barber (1849-1929) at Rutledge on Nov. 14, 1867 at the home of J.P. and Mary E. Barber. A.J. Davis died at Rutledge in 1869. In 1870, Peyton P. Barber was a store dry goods merchant at Rutledge. In 1880, grandmother Sarah O. Davis and daughter Corinne lived with Peyton and Tallulah and Peyton was farming. In October 1889, Sarah O. Davis, with daughter Corinne, came to near Staff and Round Mountain, near the Leon River, about seven miles southeast of Eastland in Eastland County, Texas, with the family of Peyton and Tallulah Barber.
The six children of A.J. and Sarah O. Davis, all born at Pleasant Valley, Murray County, Georgia: There was another child (unnamed) who died very young.
Charles Chilion Davis (June 16, 1844 - Sept. 3, 1923)
Ary Ann Davis Williamson (July 8, 1846 - Jan. 14, 1880)
Olive Lenora Davis Cross (Dec. 10, 1848 - June 24, 1934)
Tallulah Agnes Davis Barber (Jan. 9, 1851 - May 24, 1906)
Sarah Emma Davis (March 6, 1853 - Feb. 27, 1873)
Margarette Corinne Davis Barber (Jan. 14, 1857 - Feb. 12, 1932).
Frankie Davis B: c1820 – died probably 6 July 1893, son of Henry and Elizabeth Miller Davis.
There is a letter dated 15 July 1893 from Spring Place, Georgia written to Sarah Olive Packard Davis, then at Staff, Eastland County, Texas. The letter told that "Brother Franklin" had gone to Chattanooga, where he died suddenly of cholera on 6 July 1893. The letter, written by Joseph H. Parker of Spring Place, GA, said that Franklin's bereaved wife, Martha, was feeble and Lizzie was with them and doing well. See this letter in this document. In the 1860 Murray County Census, Joseph H. Parker, age 25, was a schoolteacher at Spring Place.
Jess Davis B: c1821 - son of Henry and Elizabeth Davis
Ibbie Davis B: c1822 - son of Henry and Elizabeth Davis
Ary Ann Davis B: c1823 - daughter of Henry and Elizabeth Miller Davis
*There was also Ary Ann Davis Williamson (1846-1880), daughter of A.J. and Sarah Olive Packard Davis, who married Esquire Thomas Williamson (1838-1913) and they moved to east of Providence Crossing in Eastland County in 1874.
Elizabeth Davis Born: c1826 Died: after 1850 and before 1860. - daughter of Henry and Elizabeth Davis
Married William Arp on 11 July 1841 in Monroe County, TN.
Children: Elizabeth Arp, c1841; Sarah, c1843; Nancy, c1847.
John L. Davis Born: in Roane County, TN about 1830 - son of Henry and Elizabeth Davis
The 1850 Murray Co, GA Census gives him as age 20, living in the household of Chilion Packard with his mother, Elizabeth Davis. John L. Davis married Lucinda Patty on 18 April 1850 in Roane Co, TN, born about 1824 in Roane County, daughter of Josiah West and Elizabeth (Rooker) Patty. In 1860, John and Lucinda Davis farmed in Rhea County, TN, post office Sulphur Springs, where he was age 48 and she age 36, both born in TN. In 1860, their children were: Elizabeth H., 10; Veruelia C., 9; Josiah P., 6; Sally, 4; and Julia A., age 2.
William Dobson Davis B: c1830 - son of Henry and Elizabeth Davis
A court statement naming Dobson Davis also names Betsy or Elizabeth Miller.
The March 2, 1893 letter written by Charles C. Davis (1844-1923), then living at Davenport, Alabama, states that "W.D. Davis – 1850" could still be read at the top of the north chimney at the old Packard-Davis home at Pleasant Valley in Murray County, Georgia.
Eliza Josephine Davis B: 13 May 1836 in Murray County, GA., D: 1872 in Murray Co, Georgia. - daughter of Henry and Elizabeth Davis. Married John Henry Peoples on 18 Sept. 1851, Murray County, GA.
The 1850 Murray County Census gives her as age 14.
Martha E. Davis B: c1838 in Murray County, GA. - daughter of Henry and Elizabeth Davis, Married C.W. Keith on 20 Jan 1850 in Murray Co, GA. The 1850 Murray County Census gives Martha E. as age as 12 in the household of Chilion Packard.
Comments by Norman Alford.
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Born: c1780/1781 in Caswell County, North Carolina, son of Bazzle and "Fannie" Frances Davis.
Died: Probably 1840 after the Murray County Census was taken, certainly before 1850 at Pleasant Valley (Eton), Murray County, Georgia. On August 4, 1840, a young A.J. Davis sold 73 acres of land to Chilion Packard in Murray County, maybe a clue that his father Henry Davis had died.
Pleasant Valley is the historic name of the stagecoach stop town on the Federal Road which had a post office, where Chilion Packard in 1840 bought land, was a store merchant, and was postmaster in the 1840's (see the Murray County History).
"Not much is known of the Davis family. Henry Davis, age 30, Aunt Teen thinks, married Betsy Miller, age 15, in Tennessee. They became the parents of 14 children, 13 of whom lived to be "men and women grown," as she often said. "Grandmother was Irish, and Grandfather was Welsh." --- from dictation notes taken by Sarah Emma Barber on July 2, 1923, at Cisco, Eastland County, Texas. Emma listened to the recollections of Margaret Corinne Davis Barber (1857-1932), known as Aunt Teen to the Barber children, daughter of A.J. and Sarah Olive Packard Davis (1825-1908).
Henry Davis, about age 30, married "Betsy" Elizabeth Miller, about age 15, on 16 October 1811, in Roane County, Tennessee, daughter of Henry Y. Miller (died 6 Aug 1820) and Martha C. (Wyly) Miller. The marriage bond was witnessed by Bazzle Davis, according to Early East Tennessee Marriages, Vol 1 and 2.
Marriage License of Henry Davis and Elizabeth Miller – Oct. 16, 1811
State of Tennessee – Roane County
Knows all men by their presence that we Henry Davis and Bazd Davis, all of the county of state afore said, our heirs who are jointly and severally held and firmly bound unto his Excellency the Governor of the State of Tennessee and his successors in office in the sum of twelve hundred and fifty dollars to be void on condition that there be no lawful cause to prevent a marriage shortly intended to be solemnized between Henry Davis and Elizabeth Miller to be joined together in the holy state of matrimony.
Witness our hand – seal this 16 day of October 1811
Attest Henry Davis – Seal
J. Purris Bazd Davis – Seal
---from Roane County, Tennessee Marriage Bond and License Book.
The 1850 Murray County Census gives widow Elizabeth Davis (age 54, born c1796 in TN) living in the household of Chilion Packard (1791-1851), with three of her younger children: John L. (age 20, born c1830 in TN); Elizabeth J. (age 14, born c1836 in GA); and Martha E. (age 12, born c1838 in GA). Her son, Alfred J. Davis (age 32, born c1818 in TN) also lived in the merchant Chilion Packard household with his wife Sarah Olive Packard Davis (age 24 in 1850, born 1825 Charleston, SC), with three children in 1850: Charles Chilion, age 6; Ann, age 4; and Olive, age 1.
Corporal Henry Davis served in the War of 1812 in Col. John Brown's Regiment, East Tennessee Volunteers, in Capt. Allen S. Bacon's Company of Volunteer Militia Infantry, made up mostly of Roane County, TN men. Henry Davis commenced service on Sept. 30, 1813, discharged Dec. 30, 1813, and was paid $10 per month for 3 months. His younger, unmarried brother, Littleton Davis, died in the War of 1812. Henry Davis is on the 1812 Roane County tax list, as is Bazzle Davis, William Davis, and Alfred Davis. The 1820 estate of Henry Y. Miller names Henry Davis and wife Betsy (Miller) Davis of Monroe County, TN.
Henry Davis is not listed in the 1830 Roane County Census, but he is listed in the 1834 Murray County, Georgia Census with a household of fifteen. Henry Davis is on a list of winners in the 1832 Georgia Land Lottery in Murray County, when Cherokee lands were granted to white settlers. Henry Davis is listed in the 1840 Murray County Census, with a family of 12 children, 8 boys and 4 girls, and no slaves. The child Eliza J. is listed as age 14 (born Georgia c1836) in the 1850 Murray County Census in the Chilion Packard household.
Henry Davis was the son of Bazzle Davis (c1750-1818), born probably in Maryland, and "Fanny" Frances (unknown), who died after 1820. Bazzle Davis was in Roane County, TN when it was formed in 1801. Two of Henry Davis's brothers stated on their pension applications that they were born in Prince George County, Maryland. The father of Bazzle Davis was another Henry Davis and Bazzle's mother is probably Susannah (unknown). Susannah is listed on baptism records in Prince George Co, Maryland, as the mother of two of Bazzle's younger brothers. They came from Caswell County, NC, by 1798 and were on the 1805 tax list for Roane County, TN. They owned 100 acres on the Tennessee River in 1814. Estate administrators for Bazzle Davis (deceased) were his wife Fanny Davis and her oldest son Alfred Davis, according to a January 1818 Roane County court record and property inventory.
1840 Murray County Georgia Census
Henry Davis – Males 2 (5-10), 2 (15-20), 4 (20-30), 1 (50-60)
Females 2 (0-5), 1 (10-15), 1 (15-20), 1 (40-50) = Total of 14, 8 boys, 4 girls, and no slaves.
1850 Murray County Census, Pleasant Valley (Eton).
Chilion Packard, age 59, merchant, $8000 real estate value, born Massachusetts
Alfred Davis, age 32, farmer, born TN
Sarah Davis, age 24, born SC (Sarah Olive Packard Davis, 1825-1908)
CC (Charles Chilion Davis), age 6, born GA
Ann, age 4, born GA
Olive, age 1, born GA
Elizabeth Davis, age 54, born TN (Widow of Henry Davis)
John L. Davis, age 20, born TN
Elizabeth J. Davis, age 14, born Ga
Martha E. Davis, age 12, born GA
Elizabeth "Betsy" (Miller) Davis – Wife of Henry Davis
Born: c1796 in Tennessee, daughter of Henry Y. Miller and Martha C. Wyly Miller. Elizabeth was age 54 in the 1850 Census of Murray County, Georgia, living in the household of Chilion Packard.
Elizabeth Miller married Henry Davis on October 16, 1811 in Roane County, TN. She is recorded as age 54 in the 1850 Murray County, Georgia Census, living in the household of Chilion Packard with three of her children (John L. Davis, Eliza J. Davis, and Martha E. Davis), and with her son, Alfred Jasper Davis and his wife Sarah Olive Packard Davis, and their family.
Died: after 1852 at Pleasant Valley, Murray County, Georgia, probably in the home of A.J. and Sarah Olive Packard Davis. Chilion Packard (1791-1851) died in 1851, at age sixty, as written in the A.J. and Sarah O. Davis Bible.
Margarette Corinne Davis Barber said in notes that were recorded by Sarah Emma Barber in 1923, that "Betsy" Miller was age 15 when she married Henry Davis, who was 30. Most of the children of Henry and Elizabeth Davis were born in Roane County, TN. She said her Grandfather Henry Davis was Welsh and Elizabeth Miller Davis was Irish.
Children of Henry Davis and "Betsy" Elizabeth Miller Davis, born from 1814 to 1838:
Walton K. Davis B: c1814, Roane County, TN, married Margaret Ragan on 26 Mar. 1839, Murray Co, GA.
Marion Davis B: c1816, Roane County, TN, married Elizabeth Ballew in 1856, Murray County, Georgia.
Littleton Horace Davis B: c1815 Roane Co, TN D: 1905 at Couch, Oregon Co, MO., Mar. (1) "Mina" Jemima Maddox on 4 Mar 1841, Murray Co., GA. Jemima Maddox (born 1825 in GA and died 25 Aug 1861, Oregon Co., MO – See 1860 Census in Oregon County).
Children in 1850 Murray Co, GA: John W., age 9; L.H, age 7; L.D., age 3; Mary E., age 2; and Joseph Hankins, age 22, laborer, born TN.
Littleton Horace Davis married (2) Mary Ann DuBoise in 1863 (born 1820 in TN; died 4 Feb 1883, Couch, Oregon Co., MO. Littleton is mentioned as "Uncle Lit" in the March 1893 long letter written by Charles Chilion Davis (1844- 1923).
Henry Bazzle Davis Born: 26 April 1817 in Roane County, Tennessee, Died: 13 April 1882, near Cleveland, Bradley County, Tennessee. (see Find A Grave). Married Nancy Pickens (born 14 Sept 1817, Pendleton District, SC), on 30 Nov 1838, McMinn Co, TN.
The will of Henry B. Davis stated that he owned 83 acres on the Cleveland and Charleston road, where they lived. According to the Goodspeed Biographies of Bradley County Citizens (article on John P. Davis), Nancy Pickens was born 14 Sept 1817, Pendleton District, SC. Henry and Nancy Davis were members of the Methodist Church. Henry B. Davis, who was a Republican and supported the Union, organized the stock company that built the Cleveland Flouring Mill, where he was superintendent. After the Civil War, he established the first bank in Cleveland, TN.
In the 1860 Census, Henry Bazzle Davis, age 43, a farmer, born in Tennessee, was living at Cleveland, Bradley County, TN. He had real estate of $5000 and personal estate of $1000. His wife was Nancy, age 42, born in South Carolina. The children, all six born in Tennessee, were: Mary E., age 20; John P., age 17 (born 23 April 1843); Lillie Ann, age 14; Solama J., age 6, female, Emma C., age 4, and Martha F., age 2.
In April 1861 a nephew, Charles Chilion Davis (1844-1923) of Pleasant Valley (now Eton), Murray County, Georgia, son of Alfred Jasper Davis and Sarah Olive Packard Davis, was a student at Professor Burkett's School of Higher Learning in Cleveland, TN. Charles C. Davis, about age 17, was staying at the home of Uncle Henry B. and Aunt Nancy Pickens Davis, when he wrote a letter saying Uncle Henry Davis and Aunt Nancy Davis had six children at home, one being named as Lillie. Uncle Henry B. Davis supported the Union, as told in the two historic letters from Cleveland, as written by young Charles Chilion Davis in April 1861.
In 1870, Henry B. Davis, age 53, was a dry goods merchant at Cleveland, TN, with $9000 in real estate and $11000 in personal estate. Nancy was age 52, but listed as born in TN. Mary E. was age 25; Lillie A., age 23; Soloma J., age 16; and Emma C., age 13. Sarah, age 16, was a black, domestic servant, and William, age 10, was a black, farm laborer, and Samuel Hoyl was age 19, mulatto, a farm laborer.
John Pickens Davis (born 23 April 1843-died before 1923), planter and miller of Bradley County, TN,
married Caroline Cleveland on 20 Sept 1866. Caroline Cleveland was born in Bradley Co., TN, 30 Oct 1847.
See the Goodspeed biography of John P. Davis.
The Web page, "Descendants of Bazil Davis," lists the children as: Mary, 1842; John Pickens, 1843, married Caroline Cleveland; Lillie Ann, 1846, Solama J., 1854; Emma C., 1856; and Martha F., 1858.
+Alfred Jasper Davis Born: c1818 in Roane County, Tennessee to Henry and Elizabeth Davis.
Died: 15 Aug. 1869, Rutledge, Crenshaw County, Alabama, age 51, as written in the A.J. and Sarah Olive Davis Bible.
Married Sarah Olive Packard at Pleasant Valley, Murray County, Georgia, on August 16, 1842.
A.J. Davis is buried at Vernledge Methodist Cemetery, unmarked grave, Crenshaw County, Alabama.
Sarah Olive Packard (1825-1908) was born in Charleston, SC on 25 Sept 1825, daughter of Dr. Chilion Packard (1791-1851) and Sarah Gordon Roulain Packard, and died near Staff, Eastland County, Texas on 6 March 1908, buried Eastland Cemetery with her daughters, Ary Ann Davis Williamson, Tallulah Agnes Davis Barber and Margarette Corinne Davis Barber. Sarah Olive Packard Davis was the mother of seven children, as given in her 1908 obituary, but one unnamed child died. She was a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church South dating from the 1840's at Pleasant Valley. In 1868 near Rutledge, AL, her husband, A.J. Davis was converted into the Methodist Church as written in her 1908 obituary (see Find A Grave for Sarah Olive Davis (1825-1908), Eastland Cemetery, Eastland, Texas).
In spring 1864, A.J. and Sarah Davis, with their five daughters, fled their nice home and farm on the Federal Road on the south side of Pleasant Valley. They headed south by train, maybe from Dalton. They left their home and property behind at Pleasant Valley to escape dangers and events of the Civil War during the threatening march south of the Union Army of General William T. Sherman.
According to the Davis family story, there was a train fire at Greenville, Butler County, Alabama. The fire burned some of the Davis possessions and caused the family to have to leave the train. A.J. Davis made contact with planter and store owner Jared Phelps Barber (1812-1893) at nearby Barber's Crossroads, where A.J. Davis made an agreement to live on the J.P. Barber plantation in a slave cabin, to survive the war. On July 20, 1864, J.P. Barber sold A.J. Davis 680 acres of land (Butler County BK 3-Page 5) for $6120, but the sale was not filed until July 1, 1873, after A.J. Davis died in 1869. Barber's Crossroads became Rutledge in 1867, the first county seat of the newly formed Crenshaw County. A.J. Davis died in Crenshaw County, age 51, on August 15, 1869.
The daughter Miss Tallulah Agnes Davis (1851-1906) married Peyton Phelps Barber (1849-1929) at Rutledge on Nov. 14, 1867 at the home of J.P. and Mary E. Barber. A.J. Davis died at Rutledge in 1869. In 1870, Peyton P. Barber was a store dry goods merchant at Rutledge. In 1880, grandmother Sarah O. Davis and daughter Corinne lived with Peyton and Tallulah and Peyton was farming. In October 1889, Sarah O. Davis, with daughter Corinne, came to near Staff and Round Mountain, near the Leon River, about seven miles southeast of Eastland in Eastland County, Texas, with the family of Peyton and Tallulah Barber.
The six children of A.J. and Sarah O. Davis, all born at Pleasant Valley, Murray County, Georgia: There was another child (unnamed) who died very young.
Charles Chilion Davis (June 16, 1844 - Sept. 3, 1923)
Ary Ann Davis Williamson (July 8, 1846 - Jan. 14, 1880)
Olive Lenora Davis Cross (Dec. 10, 1848 - June 24, 1934)
Tallulah Agnes Davis Barber (Jan. 9, 1851 - May 24, 1906)
Sarah Emma Davis (March 6, 1853 - Feb. 27, 1873)
Margarette Corinne Davis Barber (Jan. 14, 1857 - Feb. 12, 1932).
Frankie Davis B: c1820 – died probably 6 July 1893, son of Henry and Elizabeth Miller Davis.
There is a letter dated 15 July 1893 from Spring Place, Georgia written to Sarah Olive Packard Davis, then at Staff, Eastland County, Texas. The letter told that "Brother Franklin" had gone to Chattanooga, where he died suddenly of cholera on 6 July 1893. The letter, written by Joseph H. Parker of Spring Place, GA, said that Franklin's bereaved wife, Martha, was feeble and Lizzie was with them and doing well. See this letter in this document. In the 1860 Murray County Census, Joseph H. Parker, age 25, was a schoolteacher at Spring Place.
Jess Davis B: c1821 - son of Henry and Elizabeth Davis
Ibbie Davis B: c1822 - son of Henry and Elizabeth Davis
Ary Ann Davis B: c1823 - daughter of Henry and Elizabeth Miller Davis
*There was also Ary Ann Davis Williamson (1846-1880), daughter of A.J. and Sarah Olive Packard Davis, who married Esquire Thomas Williamson (1838-1913) and they moved to east of Providence Crossing in Eastland County in 1874.
Elizabeth Davis Born: c1826 Died: after 1850 and before 1860. - daughter of Henry and Elizabeth Davis
Married William Arp on 11 July 1841 in Monroe County, TN.
Children: Elizabeth Arp, c1841; Sarah, c1843; Nancy, c1847.
John L. Davis Born: in Roane County, TN about 1830 - son of Henry and Elizabeth Davis
The 1850 Murray Co, GA Census gives him as age 20, living in the household of Chilion Packard with his mother, Elizabeth Davis. John L. Davis married Lucinda Patty on 18 April 1850 in Roane Co, TN, born about 1824 in Roane County, daughter of Josiah West and Elizabeth (Rooker) Patty. In 1860, John and Lucinda Davis farmed in Rhea County, TN, post office Sulphur Springs, where he was age 48 and she age 36, both born in TN. In 1860, their children were: Elizabeth H., 10; Veruelia C., 9; Josiah P., 6; Sally, 4; and Julia A., age 2.
William Dobson Davis B: c1830 - son of Henry and Elizabeth Davis
A court statement naming Dobson Davis also names Betsy or Elizabeth Miller.
The March 2, 1893 letter written by Charles C. Davis (1844-1923), then living at Davenport, Alabama, states that "W.D. Davis – 1850" could still be read at the top of the north chimney at the old Packard-Davis home at Pleasant Valley in Murray County, Georgia.
Eliza Josephine Davis B: 13 May 1836 in Murray County, GA., D: 1872 in Murray Co, Georgia. - daughter of Henry and Elizabeth Davis. Married John Henry Peoples on 18 Sept. 1851, Murray County, GA.
The 1850 Murray County Census gives her as age 14.
Martha E. Davis B: c1838 in Murray County, GA. - daughter of Henry and Elizabeth Davis, Married C.W. Keith on 20 Jan 1850 in Murray Co, GA. The 1850 Murray County Census gives Martha E. as age as 12 in the household of Chilion Packard.
Comments by Norman Alford.
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Gravesite Details
Unmarked grave in Eton Cemetery. Eton was historically known as Pleasant Valley.
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