1. Warner Davis 1 was born on 28 Dec 1787 in Holly Springs, Randolph, North Carolina, USA. He died on 9 Nov 1859 in Salem, Henry, Iowa, USA. He was buried in Quaker Cemetery, Salem, Henry, Iowa.
Letters From Indiana[6]
Indianah Territory Nox County the 6 of the 10th month 1815
Dear sister I take this oportunity to inform th that I am resonable well at presant hoping these may find you all well it is vary sickley here at this time thare was four men died the week afeer mother and Jack left here Adam is considerable bettr Lydia and the children are much as the ware when mother and Joel left her Warner is very low with the bilious feaver Milly and the child are much as the wa? when Mother left them Robert and family are well except Edith she was very unwell yesterday Jane now at Warhers I sat up with him last night and the night before hers rather easier to night
I should be happy to see you all once more. I often think of you though we are far separated the re is not a day Jesse is over but ? I think on you do? ? to write every oportunity for I long to read a few lines from you I have heard nothing from you since Robert came home we are nearly don of gathering fodder I expect to sew my wheete next week and as soon as we gather corn Alexander CLARK expects to go to the wabash and illenois I will send back three dollars ? which I want ? for state bank and sent to me the first oportunity I expect to right agane by Joel DICKSEN so I conclude and remane thy affectionate and well wishing brother Jesse DAVIS also remember my respects to John HODGSON and family and tell them how we are (to Mary Davis North Carolina Randolph Co)
Indeany Teritory the 15th of the first month 1816
respected sister I take this opertunity to right to you to let you know that we are all well and has been ginnerly so since I got home my Mother and all my brothers and Sisters is well Ann is married to Daniel DARAUGH Warnor still remanes poorely milley has got about againe Warnor and Jesse has rented a plase of Adam and has moved to it I should be glad to read a letter from thee for I hante seen the scrape of a pen from eny of yuou since I left you and if you would send letters to Jobe WORTHS John CROW will be back by their in two or three weaks after he leaves this thear Our children is a gowen to school Jesse Aron Jane and Eliza went to their letters Jesse is in three Sillabels and the rest in foure letters I work in the Shop ,and Sills DIXON is a worken a month with me and we can't do half the work that comes tell MILLER that horse I got of him worse the triflingest horse that ever I owned I would be glad the would remember us to all our brothers and siter and tell them we would be glad they would right to us to let us know how they are So nothing more at present it is know late in the night for it is all the time I have to right we had a very pleasant fawl but it is very Coald know and the deapest Snow on the ground that ever I seen in this Countery (from Robert and Edith HOLADAY for Mary DAVIS)
Indianah Territory Orange County April the 5th 1816
respected sister I take this oportunity of writing thee a few lines to inform thee whare and how I am I am living at Warner DAVISES and am reasonable well at present hoping that when these few lines they may find thee and the rest of my brothers and sisters father friends and relations in that country injoying the blessings of health the indians killed , seven men last seven day on the west side of the wabash near fourt harrison and is expected will be somewhat troublesome this summer I am midling well satisfied with the country and should be better if I had land for I am tyerd of being a tenant or hireling but I sea no way to keep myself at preasant for I am not able to by land here and the soldiers are to have the new purchase I should beg lad to you all once more but the aistance is segreate that it is very unsurtain for tis likely I will be this fall. I want thee to send me some account about my corn what is done with it and I want thee to collect what little money is coming to me there against august I have nothing particular to write at preasant I expect the barer will call on __respectable you man remember my respects to father and my brothers and sisters so nothing more at preasant but conclude and remane well wishing brother Jesse DAVIS (to Mary DAVIS)
Indiana State O(ran)ge County July the 1 1817
Respected Sister Mary DAVIS I may inform thee that I am well at present I have not bin lade up one hour since I saw thee with sickness I hope when these lines coms to hand the may find thee and all of the rest of my sisters brothers and relations well I am living with Warner and in sight of Jesse the ware well last week I am now at Adams and shall start home tomorrow with a waggon load of meal and corn I may let thee nothat I got sum cloas by Charles HILL and sum by thomas RUBOTTOM which I was glad to get I want thee to send the rest of my cloas if thee can for i expect to reside in this country for i think it better than Carolina I want thee to wright every oportunity for i think long of the time to hear from you though this is the first time I have written to any of you for I have not had an oportunity for when we moved to whare we now live thare was not a neighbour within fifteen miles that we new of tho thare is sevrels settled round us now pleas to remember my respects to Thomas HODDSON and tell him that I want him to pick up courage and leav old north and come to this cuntry though it is a long road and a tiresome won we was fifteen days a coming and it cos about fifteen dollars a piece every one of the nags giv out but mine and she sto it remarkably well Jesse swopt on the road, the rest maid out to get her in a week after we did so having not time nor room to rite more I conclude with, much love to you all and remain your well wishing brother
(Reuben DAVIS to Mary DAVIS)
Indiana State Orange County the 15th of August 1817
respected sister I take this opportunity to inform thee that that that we are resonabe well at present Esther has a daughhter and calls it Mary I have not had any account from any of you since last spring Ralph LOWDER moved out here day before yesterday Thomas CLARK is coming in about three weeks we have had a wet summer have the best new ground corn I ever saw to the age of it I have fifteen sows had pigs within six weeks and the wools(wolves) have kild all the pigs but one I have kild one woolf the bares have kild several larg fat hogs for me this summer I am well sattisfied that I am here when we moov here the next neighbor was fifteen mile I should be glad to see you all once mor but that is more than expect so I conclude with much love to you all and remane thy well wishing brother Jesse DAVIS
(addressed to Mary DAVIS North Carolina Randolph County)
Lawrence County July the 25 1818
Respected brother and sister. I have taken my pen in hand for the first time to let you no that I am in a reasonable state of helth at present and were satisfied with the country hoping when these few lines come to hand thee may find you enjoying the same blessing which we ought to be thankful for I am living with Warner when at home but am now at Roberts no complaint with any of them we have had a fine season or corn looks well. I wish thee could see it. I want thee to come to this country and look at it and then I am in hopes thee will move to it for I believe it to be a far better country than that though I don't wish to presuade any body against their will. I may inform thee that I returned from the illinois on the third of this instant I think that the butifulest cuntry I ever saw which makes me want you thare to live if I was not afraid it is sickly though it is helty since I left old north pleas to remember my respects to my brothers and sisters and in your friends and tell them that I would be glad to hear from them once more. I want you not to fail writing every oportunity for I shal be obigled to hear from you. So having nothing of importance to write at present I conclude with love and good will to you and remain your well wishing brother so I bid you an affectoate farewell
(from Reuben Davis to William and Mary Coltrain)
Indiania Larrence County the 3rd of 9th month 1818
Most honored Brother and sister as an oportunity offers I take my pen in hand to salute in the sympathy of love also to inform we have injoyed perfect peace and health ever since we lived on indian c(r)eek hoping when these few-scrowls come to hand they may find you injoying the same blessing which I esteem the greatest of all blessings we poor, depending creatures can injoy either here or ther(e), I also can inform you I have been waiting a long time to open and read a letter from you but have never yet been able to open the seal thereof I can inform that we have had the hardest winter that I ever witnessed much snow, snow in may las(t) and the warmest summer I ever witnessed in this country and vary dry in our settlement though wet all around though we have midling crops of corn and a great prospect of mast? cattle and hogs now fat and a thriving fast I was by a beef merchant offered sixteen dollars per head for two year old steers and 18 for three year old but not liking the offer did not take it I have 14 head sheap. I had a small hope you would come to indiania till I heard of your settling on where you live I am somewhat astonished and not greatly gratified at your resolution in attempting to live get rich and raise a fammily on so poor a place as that if I a(i)n't greatly mistaken but still I hope it is better than I am apprised of pleased to write me a few lines' and how you are acoming on. To having nothing more particular I conclude with much love to you
W(arne)r and Milly DAVIS L
State of Indiana Laurence County the ninth of the fifth month 1820
Respected brother and sister William and Mary COLTRAIN I am favored with helth and opportunity of writing to you to let you no that we are both in a tolerable state of helth at this time hoping when these lines comes to your hands the may find you all in heth and as for the times her father and mother can tell you none about that then I can if the live to get back to that part of the world as I hope the gay? and then back here again but is it is along road and very rouge some part of it let who will try it but we all get here safe and it is to be that the may get back to theme old home we wane on the road four weaky which the time be gon to seem long to me but I was so much the ?? when I did I git here but I had all most forgot Alek I handly made him that day four weak I that we started from home me and Rheulen? got to ?? and found them all well the next day we was at meeting at Jesses and then I met with my foalk and found them all well which were much satisfaction to meat with them ?? which I did not think sometime ago I ever should in this life but things will sometimes turn out very unexpected in a little while so that it may be that we may meat with you all sometime again but not in this life I do not expect so I will tell you all farewell please to give you my love to Hannah and Alse excuse ?? I cannot wright no more at this time for Ruth DAVIS is here and wants me to go with her to Thomas and Alek CLARKS she sed there foulks was all well yesterday morning and that she is not married yet but she ?? she will be before long
Mary and family is well she has to very fine sons and she lives to miles from us so no more at this time but please to wright to us every opportunity you have excuse my bad spelling and writing
Reuben and Hannah DAVIS
State of Indiana Laurence County the 12 of 2th month 1822
Respected brother and sister I sallute you in the first spring of love which seems to flow towards you to inform you that we are all injoying the blessing of helth hoping these may find you injoying the same blessing I often think of you and think long of the time to read letters from you we have had a dry summer and a cold dry winter Wheete is much ingered(injured?) by the freeze I have two horses and a tolerable stock of cattle sheep and hogs I am much? hardest to pay my debts tho I don't owe more than fifteen dollars and have fore hundred and fifty dollars du to me I have near 40 acres of land cleared I have corn enough to do us two year and pork enough to do ten we live in a small smoky cabbin thare was agoodlead of sickness in this cuntry last fall but at much in his set pleas to tell Eli POWER John WILSON is married to Susanna WHITE and William GRAY to Sarah COLE also write to me what about his hogs he is oweing me some and if he is willing I will take them for pay. I would ?? to see you all once more but the prospect is very gloomy with me of ever of turning that satisfaction please to write to us when opportunity will admit pleas to remember us to our dear father brothers and sisters and your well wishing brother and sister
(from Jesse and Esther DAVIS to William and Mary COLTRANE - addressed to William Coltrane State of NC, Randolph County)
The 18th of the 4 month of 1830[7]
Beloved brother if these lines come to hand they may inform that we are in usual health throughout our family for ought we know, desiring thee be thine may enjoy the same, we have had no account from any of you by letter since our fathers decease, of which we have before written but doubt its reaching your port? as we have received no return his decease fell out about the 26 of the 7 month last, he was quite week and feeble for some time before his exit?, which appeared to be partly occasioned by a dropsey, his feet and legs having been considerably swelled, his appetite very weak, he appeared as patient as could be expected, resigned to the event appearing for some time to be chiefly concerned about being prepared for the change, he expected, having at times expressed his belief that it was at hand, his senses were perfect to the last and was ? and he talked a few minutes before the close. A little time before he had a will wrote deliberately, with which he expressed his satisfaction, saying it was as much to his mind as he could well fi? it and very much desired his children to be content about his worldly effects. It will no doubt be acceptable to thee and thine to know a little about the run of things as expressed in this will it began with the eldest son bequeathing to hem ten dollars and to Edith Holaday one hundred dollars, to thyself one hundred dollars, and an hundred dollar waggon To Jesseys heirs one hundred dollars, to be equally divided between them. To Reuben ten dollars, and to the most of the rest some property. And to all an equal division after the several legacies are fulfilled and settlement made in each respect, The undersigned were left executors who after the division of the willed property, have made sales to the amount of between eleven and twelve hundred dollars. Thy waggon was part done before fathers decease and is intended to be finished against the ensueing fall. Now concerning the things we wish tee to write to us among you who will be likely to come to see us and receive the legacies, and when, tho we dont wish to disappoint therefore we propose, not sooner than fall. And the nature of the case requires that whosoever comes on that business they should be furnished with a ?????? to come and receive by being thus furnished one may act for you all if no more should choose to come. I suppose the quardian for Jesseys Children will have to see to their part, as to the last division of course we cannot assertain that, untill settlement is made which allows us two years. Now concerning Ediths portion, We wish thee or some of you to inform them that Isaac Farlow intends to stop it in our hands if he can in consequence of the claim he has on Robert, he has requested we not be hasty in sending it away. Respecting John Hodgins's family they are in usual health, Jinney? has been much confined at home for two or three years. Seldom much more than half her time u?? about, We have plenty of provision as usual, pretty good crops of corn and wheat, with oats, prices for almost every thing low, wheat in general this spring looks indifferent, much of it sown late. We Wish thee to write to us and if not convenient to send by a passenger, put it in the office, let us know the name thereof, direct thine to us at New Salem office Randolph County N.C.
We conclude respectfully yours David Davis and William Hockett
(to Warner Davis and family)
Indiana, Park County the 11th month, 24th day, 1830
Most honored brother and Sister as opportunity offers I now again take my pen in hand to address you in the simpathy of love to inform you of my safe return and my families wellfare I arrived safe at home in eighteen days which was on seven day evening and found my family and neighbours all well which was great satisfaction to me. hoping if these come to hand they may find you and family neighbours friends and relations injoying the same blessing which I asteem the greatest we can injoy here on earth I now may inform you a litle of our journey home we and our horses injoyed good, health on the road but bery little rain from springfield ? road from 36 to 45 miles a day and our creatures now looks about as well as when we left your land. I staid at home nine days was at Reubens and Esthers they were all well though Reuben had the mumps after he got home. I have escaped as yet the ? sickness in ??? that I ever heard of any country the yellow fever is the complaint.
Five people died with the small pox in ? on seven day before I came through on second day night I will leave that subject and inform you of the rain and mud we have now in our land we have had dull cloudy rainy week but little sunshine for nearly three weeks oh the mud the mud but after looking back at good old North Carolina the white flints and red clay with its crops of corn comparing them with the mud crops of corn and fat hogs my head and heart saieth stick to us corn is likely to be high it now from 12up to 16 cents pr bushel port selling fast at two dollars twenty five cents out of the woods for of the mast without corn feading not frost enough yet to kill the back sprouts? wheat looks the most flourishing I ever in any country. Robert and Edith were at our house since my return they and family were all well Edith's baby yet sucking now pleas to excuse me for it is late at night my family asleep and I can scarcely see what I write for I commeneed this after making an ? and had a hard scuffle to ? this night I now can tell you I have not forgot the FARLOW scrape after conversing with Robert HOLIDAY on the subject I wrote a few lines by way of letter to you all as I met with thomas GOSSET at Reubens also sent a certificate in Robert HOLIDAY's own hand write that Wm FARLOW never did demand any thing of him what he owed his father Isaac FARLOW Now I want you to enter a complaint against the said Wm FARLOW for false testomony when you get the certificate of Robert HOLIDAY be careful take advice how to precede also demand the letter of Isaac FARLOW that I carried from Robert HOLIDAY to him that will show that he Isaac FARLOW was informed that Wm never had demanded anything of R. H. then take him for procureing a fals testemony. I must conclude to
Wm and Mary DAVIS and remain your well wishing Brother Warner DAVIS
pleas show this to our relations as I have not time to write anything more for the barer come some days sooner than I expected them. I did intend to have wrote several letters but cannot for time will not admit
(addressed to William Coltrane North Carolina Randolph County )
State of Indiana Laurence County June 18 1831
Respected brother and sister ? lines may inform you that we are all well at present and have been genearly so since I saw you hoping you have and are injoying helth likewise Adam Warner and families ware well a few days ago Robert I have heard nothing of since last fall we received your letter bearing date the 12 of the 4 month last which was truly satisfaction to hear from you as it is the first since I left you I dont begrudge by trips of near 18 hundred miles in twisting and turning and coming again to see you and I think some of you mite come and see us tho no com? for our proverty wont invite persions from a distance whathar be come of Alce no account of ? Ester DAVIS and family is well pleas giv my respects to all my relations and friends Reuben I have sent thee a jacket not nowing whether it will fit or not if it does not fit mother must alter it thee must be a good boy and mind what father and mother tells thee So I conclude with love to you all and remain your well wishing friend and brother farewell
(from Rueben and Hannah DAVIS to William and Mary Coltrain)
Indiania Park County 7 th month 20th 1832
Most honorable brothers and sisters I now again take my pen in hand to address you in the tenderest simpathy of love to inform you of our good state of health which is as usual with desires of these come to hand may find you all injoying the same. I now can inform you I have lately heard from all our relations in Indiania and Ilinois they are all well. I also understand from a letter to Reuben there is some growling about me not writing to you since Aaron OVERMAN was with you I thank you I have wrote three volums since that time and now call you to recollect when any of you have wrote me one scrawl for I have forgot I now may inform you that the frost bit our corn last fall so that it had like to have played the with us through the winter and this summer for we had liked to have starved and be to us for grain was scarce to do some good wheat ? oats and hay remarkable good this year though our crops not large on account of so much green wood growing so near the middle of our fields I have hailed into my barn twelve waggon loads of hay cut off of two acres of land. I have all of my harvest in but my oats which are not all cut yet a noble cor? of them highas my head standing strait I have twenty five acres of corn which is not great thing on account of the drouth which is the severest I ever witnessed no rain since my corn come up to wet the ground one inch doop we had an uncommon coald winter a beautiful spring and dry summer I now inform you of our youngest daughter Mary who is more than 18 months old I now can inform you something of the population of friends to our monthly meeting when I moved here but a few friend live here and now our member is upward of four hundred and eighty and I would be glad that you all could be numbered with us do not be discouraged for if we are blessed with rain shortly we may make some corn yet not having tim to write mor
I conclude so pleas circulate these amongst you all as they are to all Warner DAVIS
(addressed to William COLTRANE Randolph County North Carolina)
State of Indiana Lewrence County 8th month 28th 1844
Often remembered Brothers and sisters I onst more sit down to rite you to let you no that we are still in the land of the living enjoying a comin State of helth as is most unual for us a blessing which we praise above all others hoping when these lines come to hand they will find you all injoying helth and prosperity, I saw a letter from Nathan a few weeks ago the ware in comon helth in that section I likewise red a letter from Lewis JONES informing me that Polly his wife departed this life on the second of last month him self totly ignorant of her death at the time the so far recovered as to walk out of dores three of her children sick dredful wet and sorry crops in that section we have had the most severe rains I ever experienst wheet crops light oats and hay good corn crops moderately good tell sister Alce that I have not received one cent from Miller[8] nor ever expect to as he had his thy broke last winter and I have not heard whether he can walk or not yet, I desire to be remembered to all of my brothers and sisters and their families as a convenient oportunity of them how does Reuben and his bare skin come on write to me name sake and let me no all about it hurray Henry Clay all whigs here
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by these presents I make thee William COLTRAIN my agent to receiv and receipt in my name for all monies drew me on the extait of William CLARKS estait by the executors of said estait Reuben DAVIS as the barer of these lines John GORDIN will call at William HOGETTS going and coming from sandy creek. I want thee to see John HENLY and git all of my money from him if thee can pay thy self well for thy trouble and plese the other with William HOCKETT against Gordins return if he gits thare with these broken hints I hope you will understand that we remain your well wishing brother and sister
(Reuben and Hannah DAVIS to William and Mary COLTRAIN - addressed to William COLTRAIN North Carolina Randolph County forward by John GORDIN)
In the early 1800's some of the children of Jesse and Elizabeth Reynolds Davis began the migration to Indiana territory. Quaker records from "ABSTRACTS OF THE RECORDS OF THE SOCIETY OF FRIENDS IN INDIANA", part 5, names several of the Davis children that first settled in Orange County, Indiana: Adam, Jesse Jr., Reuben, Warner, and Edith Davis Holladay. The thinking of the time is represented very well from letters written from Orange County to sister, Mary, who remained in Randolph County. These letters were published in "The GENEALOGICAL JOURNAL" by the Randolph County Genealogical Society Volume SVI No. 2, Spring 1992 Pages 25-27.
[7] On letter, written by David Davis of Randolph County, NC, to his brother Warner, goes into great detail on the circumstance of the 1829 death of their father (my sixth great-grandfather, Jessie Davis). The will of Jessie is also discussed
Murder of Warner Davis
Article by Lois Newburg (extract)[11]
An interesting article appeared in the Mt. Pleasant New Dec. 15, 1949 relative to Warner Davis: 'Away back in 1861 there was tremendous excitement... in all of Henry County over the murder of Warner Davis, a farmer living near Salem. The murderer was never apprehended nor his identity discovered...until many years later when the actual facts came to light by a death bed confession: From the Burlington Hawkeye in 1911: Pioneers are recalling the days when a gang of counterfeiters were operating near Salem, the band always being associated with the death of Davis, who was a much respected citizen in the old days.
Davis was killed in the fall of 1861 when he went to investigate a disturbance in his smokehouse on his farm 2 miles NW of Salem... his wife heard a blow struck and on investigating found her husband lying on some flagstones in front of the smokehouse door, bleeding and unconscious. It is supposed that he was hit by a hickory broom handle in the hands of a man who was hidden back of the door. Davis was carried to the house where it was found that his skull was crushed. He died a few hours later and his assailant made his escape.
The old residents of the vicinity declare that the motive for the killing lay in Davis' knowledge of a band of counterfeiters who were working in the vicinity. Davis gained his knowledge of the counterfeiters because his cows broke out of the pature on one fall day preceding his death. Smoke rising from a hollow while he was searching for the cows attracted his attention. He made his way noiselessly through the bushes, he found three or four men making counterfeit money, the smoke coming from a small furnace they were using in the manufacturing of the spurious coins. He recognized the men but did not make his presence known.
On returning home he stopped at the home of Joel James, a member of the grand jury and told him he had something for him which he would give out before the next term of court. On arriving home he told his wife, however. Two weeks later he was killed.
The man who confessed to knowing the man who killed Davis was Wallace Godfrey, a former Iowan who died in Oregon. He said the murderer was Clark Osborn a former resident of Salem.News 1911
"The mystery surrounding the death of Warner Davis, a farmer living near Salem in 1859 is apparently cleared by the deathbed confession of Wallace Godfrey, a former Iowan, who died in Oregon recently. According to Godfrey's statement Davis was killed by Clark Osborn, a former resident of Salem.
Pioneers also are recalling the days when a gang of counterfieters were operating near Salem, the band always being associated with the death of Davis, who was much respected citizen, in those old days.
Davis was killed one night in the fall of 1861 (death 9 November 1859), when he went to investigate a disturbance in the smoke house on his farm two miles northwest of Salem. The pioneers relate that his wife heard a blow struck and on investigating found her husband lying on some flagstones, in front of the smokehouse door, bleeding and unconcious. It is supposed that he was hit by a hickory broom handle, in the hands of a man who was hidden back of the door. His skull was crushed and died a few hours later.
Davis gained his knowledge of the counterfieters because his cows broke out of the pasture one fall day preceding his death. Smoke rising from a hollow, while he was searching for the beasts, attracted his attention. Making his way noiselessly through the bushes, he found three or four men making counterfiet money, the smoke coming from a small furnance they were using in the manufacture of the spurous coins. He recognised the men, according to the history of the case, which is now being recalled by the residents of the vicinity, but he did not make his presence known to them.
On returning home he stopped at the home of Joel Jones, and told Jones he had something for him which he would give out before the next term of court. Jones being a member of the grand jury. Two weeks after his discovery he was killed.
Recently Mrs. Louisa Maxwell, of Story county, a former resident of Henry county, returned from Oregon, where she had been visiting her half brother, Asa Llewellyn, formerly of here. While on her visit she learned of the death of Godfrey, and of his confession. Clark, accused by Godfrey as being the murderer of Warner Davis, has been dead for ten or twelve years, not having resided in this vicinity for a number of years preceding his death. Godfrey was never suspicioned of having any knowledge of the tragedy.
The smoke house was moved to the farm now owned by John Bickaler, one-half mile north of Salem. It has the same walnut door, the same weather-boarding and same strips of oak as bars across the two small windows, one on each side of the door.
The Warner Davis farm was sold soon after the murder by the widow and heirs to Olberson Trueblood. In 1864 John W. Tribby came west from Ohio and purchased the farm in 1865. He and his family lived there until about 1890, then he sold it to Joseph Denny. The latter sold it to Edward Simpkins, and he and his son, William now live there.
Old residents remember the murder, and are inclined to believe that Godfrey was connected with it too."Received from: Mrs. Marjorie Waterman, Salem, Iowa, March 1973
Warner married Milla Hodson "Milly", daughter of John Hodgin and Margaret Walker, on 3 Mar 1814 in Center, Randolph, North Carolina, USA. Milly was born on 17 Jun 1792 in , Guilford, North Carolina, USA. She died on 31 Oct 1863 in Salem, Henry, Iowa, USA. She was buried in Quaker Cemetery, Salem, Henry, Iowa.
1860 census lists her first name as Milla.
They had the following children.
+ 2 F i Alice Davis was born on 15 Dec 1814. She died after 1880. + 3 F ii Elizabeth Davis was born on 22 Feb 1816. She died after 1 Mar 1895. 4 F iii Jane Davis was born on 17 Oct 1817 in Center, Guilford, North Carolina, USA. + 5 M iv Joel Davis was born on 24 Jun 1819. He died in 1860/1870. + 6 F v Caroline Davis was born on 6 Jan 1821. She died on 27 Jan 1903. 7 F vi Irena Davis was born on 14 Jun 1822 in , Parke, Indiana, USA. She died on 9 Sep 1865. Irena married Oscar Fitz-Allen Faulkner, son of James Faulkner and Rhoda Terry, on 29 May 1849. Oscar was born 1 on 8 Dec 1828 in , , Indiana, USA.
Oscar has a son Charles H.P. Faulkner that was born in 1863 that maybe the son of Irena Davis. Needs to be determined.+ 8 F vii Rumina Davis was born on 14 Apr 1824. She died on 23 Aug 1908. + 9 F viii Ruhamy (Lorhania?) Davis was born on 14 Apr 1824. She died on 6 Jan 1897. + 10 M ix John B. Davis was born on 24 Apr 1826. He died after 1880. 11 M x Jesse Davis was born on 1 Oct 1828 in , Parke, Indiana, USA. + 12 F xi Mary Davis was born on 17 Feb 1830. + 13 M xii David Davis was born on 11 Feb 1833. He died after 1910. + 14 M xiii Rueben Davis was born on 11 Feb 1833.