Richard DAVIS

                      From JOHNSON COUNTY KENTUCKY, A history of the County, and genealogy of it's people up to the year 1927 by Mitchel Hall, vol. II, The Standard Press, Louisville KY 1928. Richard Davis is claimed to have been in the Revolution by some of his descendents. It is doubtful that he was in the Revolution but possible that He could have been in the War of 1812. The old family bible which has been passed down through the Bracken R. Davis branch of the family and now in the possession of Irene Davis at Meally KY, gives a Richard R. Davis as being born  Jan. 6, 1773, and died at the age of 110. If this were correct, and it appears that it is, since this Bible is 152 years old and had been rebound atone time in plain leather, such as is used in harness shops today, then the conjecture that Mr. Davis was a revolutionary soldier would be incorrect.  For those in the Davis family desiring to join the Daughters of the American Revolution and other patriotic organizations it might be added here that they are eligible through Abiud Fairchild whose daughter married James Curtis and had a child, Elizabeth, who married Elias Davis. From the number of names of James and McHenry that have drifted down through this family it would appear that Richard Davis' father was James McHenry Davis. However this is only a supposition.  It is given here for the reason that almost every book or southwest Virginia makes mention of James Davis acquiring 1300 acres of land in Augusta County, Virginia and patented March 19, 1748, which he called "Davis Fancy". Mrs A. P. Childress states that the father of Richard Davis was James Mc Henry Davis. Richard R. Davis is said to have been killed while crossing the Clinch River, although the Bible mentioned above shows that he lived to be 110 years old, which would appear to be correct as many of this family reached the eighties and nineties.