James DAVIS

Birth:
12 Jun 1786
Strasburg, Franklin, Pennsylvania
Death:
3 Sep 1870
Union, Crawford, Pennsylvania
Burial:
Greendale Cem, Crawford, Pennsylvania
Marriage:
25 Oct 1811
Meadville, Crawford, Pennsylvania
Father:
Blocked
Mother:
Blocked
Notes:
                   RUTH SETTERQUIST, 1318 SHELBY DR., FAIFIELD, CA 94533, 10/90; 10/98
BIRTH: "The Cotton Family of Crawford Co", donated to CCHS by Homer R. Ross,
      1981; Joslyn's "Descendants of Henry Cotton", 1983
BIRTH-MARRIAGE-DEATH: "1885 Crawford Co History", Pg 725, 1108; "had 7 ch; 6
      grew to manhood & 4 res in Crawford Co; occ, farmer; he died at age 85 yrs;
      was ensign in War of 1812
MARRIAGE: "Crawford Messenger", 30 Oct 1811 md by the Rev Mr Johnston; both of
      Sadsbury Twp)
      Trapani Papers , CCHS, contain a reference to a Davis Outline at CCHS
BIRTH-MARRIAGE: "Crawford Co Genealogy" by CCGS, Vol 8, No 2, Pg 113
      "The Davis Family" by Thos. Kirby Davis, Pg 33-34: rem with parents when
       9 yrs to the woods 6 mi SW of Meadville; served with Capt. Witherow's Co
       in War of 1812 & rec 2 land warrants of 60 acres each for his service;
       gave singing lessons; raised Presb but converted at age 65 to ME Church
BIRTH-MARRIAGE-DEATH: Joslyn's "Descendants of Henry Cotton", 1983, p 22:
     both of Sadsbury Twp when married; served in war of 1812 as ensign in Capt.
     Withrow's Co & later rec 2 BLW's of 60 acres each for his service; living
     with his son, J. Stewart Davis in Vernon Twp (now Union Twp) in 1860; more
     "Descendants of Henry Cotton", Revised by Roger A. Johnson, 1994, p 15-16:
     s/o James Davis & Rachel Stewart; James Davis Sr. came to Crawford Co., from
     Franklin Co in 1795; more in ref
                  
Mary COTTON
Birth:
1790
Strabane, Washington, Pennsylvania
Death:
5 Feb 1853
Vernon, Crawford, Pennsylvania
Burial:
Feb 1853
Greendale Cem, Crawford, Pennsylvania
Notes:
                   Ruth Setterquist, 1318 Shelby Dr., Fairfield, CA 95433; 1/90; 10/98
BIRTH-MARRIAGE: Joslyn's "Descendants of Henry Cotton", 1983, Pg 22; "b. in
     Strabane Twp [now So Strabane Twp] 1790; md James Davis Jr 24 or 25 Oct 1811
     in Crawford Co, both were from Sadsbury Twp; living in Vernon Twp [now Union
     Twp] in 1850)
     Crawford Co Wills, Vol A, Pg 74 (Will of John Cotton names dau Mary Davis)
     DAR Supp App Nat #568111 John Cotton
BIRTH-MARRIAGE-DEATH-BURIAL: Descendants of Henry Cotton, Revised by Roger A.
     Johnson, 1994, Pg 15, 16 (md 24 Aug 1811; more in ref)
                  
Children
Marriage
1
Birth:
7 Sep 1812
Sadsbury, Crawford, Pennsylvania
Death:
20 Jun 1881
Meadville, Crawford, Pennsylvania
Marr:
1 Apr 1834
Fairfield, Crawford, Pennsylva 
Notes:
                   RUTH SETTERQUIST, 1318 Shelby Dr., Fairfield,CA 94533
BIRTH-MARRIAGE: 1885 Crawford Co History, Pg 725, 726
BIRTH-MARRIAGE-DEATH: The Davis Family by Thos. Kirby Davis, Pg 34-37
     united with the First Pres Ch, Meadville 23 Apr 1831; more in ref)
BIRTH: "Joslyn's Descendants of Henry Cotton", 1983, Pg 22 (Sadsbury Twp
     became Vernon Twp & later Union Twp)
BIRTH-MARRIAGE-DEATH-BURIAL: "Descendants of Henry Cotton", Revised 1994,
     Roger A. Johnson, Pg 34-35: b 7 Sep 1812 in Fairfield Twp, now Union Twp,
     Crawford Co, PA; d 30 Jun 1881 in Meadville, PA; md 1 APR 1834 in Fairfield
     Twp, Crawford Co, PA; (more in ref)
                  
2
Birth:
30 Mar 1814
Fairfield, Crawford, Pennsylvania
Death:
9 May 1880
Vernon, Crawford, Pennsylvania
Marr:
4 Jul 1844
Fairfield, Crawford, Pennsylva 
Notes:
                   Ruth Setterquist, 1318 Shelby Dr., Fairfield, CA 95433
BIRTH-MARRIAGE-DEATH-BURIAL: "The Davis Family", Thos. Kirby Davis, p 34, 57:
      grew up on the ancestral farm; owned a farm in Vernon Twp, on which he
      lived and died; members of Second Pres Ch, Meadville
BIRTH: Joslyn's "Descendants of Henry Cotton", 1983, Pg 23: Union Twp was then
     Sadsbury Twp, later Vernon Twp, then Union Twp
BIRTH-MARRIAGE-DEATH-BURIAL: "Descendants of Henry Cotton", Revised 1994,
     Roger A. Johnson, 1994, Pg 35, 66 (b in Fairfield Twp, now Union Twp; was a
     farmer & carpenter in Meadville; members of Second Pres Ch; cites marriage in
     Meadville Gazette, 10 Jul 1844; he lived with bro, Stewart in 1870 in Union
     Twp; had dau, Emma A. Davis, b 6 Apr 1845 in Crawford Co, PA, d 3 Jul 1872,
     bur 10 JUL 1872,Greendale Cem, Meadville, PA & md 12 Apr 1866 to John Pruvis)
                  
3
Birth:
23 Feb 1816
Fairfield, Crawford, Pennsylvania
Death:
26 Jun 1898
Union, Crawford, Pennsylvania
Marr:
17 Oct 1848
Vernon, Crawford, Pennsylvania 
Notes:
                   Ruth Setterquist, 1318 Shelby Dr., Fairfield, CA 95433
BIRTH-MARRIAGE: 1885 Crawford County History, pg 1108: lives on the same farm
     his grandfather & father settled; md 1st Susan Van Horn; 2 ch; m2 Eliza
     Davis; 1 ch by this marriage; member of M. E. Church)
BIRTH-MARRIAGE-DEATH: "The Davis Family", Thos. Kirby Davis, pg 32, 58-59:
     (mem ME Ch for more than 50 years)
BIRTH: Joslyn's "Descendants of Henry Cotton", 1983, Pg 23: Union Twp was
     formerly Vernon, formerly Sadsbury Twp
BIRTH-MARRIAGE-DEATH: "Descendants of Henry Cotton", Revised 1994, Roger A.
     Johnson, Pg 16, 36: b in Fairfield Twp, now Union Twp; m1 bef 1848, Susan
     Van Horne; m2, 17 Oct 1848 in Vernon Twp, Crawford Co, PA, to Eliza Davis,
     d/o Samuel Davis & Catherine Haymaker; Eliza Davis was said to be his 2nd
     cousin; inherited his father's farm on which he prob died; more in ref)
                  
4
Birth:
6 Jan 1819
Fairfield, Crawford, Pennsylvania
Death:
9 Feb 1909
Meadville, Crawford, Pennsylvania
Marr:
8 Feb 1877
Meadville, Crawford, Pennsylva 
Notes:
                   RUTH SETTERQUIST, 1318 Shelby Dr., Fairfield,CA 94533
BIRTH-MARRIAGE-DEATH: "The Davis Family", Thos. Kirby Davis, pg 34, 59-60:
     married 2nd, Mr. Thomas S. Minnis & thereafter made her home in Meadville;
     mem First Pres Ch; d 9 Feb 1899 in this rec
BIRTH: Joslyn's "Descendants of Henry Cotton", 1983, Pg 23: Union Twp was
     Sadsbury Twp & later Vernon Twp, then Union Twp
BIRTH-MARRIAGE-DEATH: "Descendants of Henry Cotton", Revised 1994, Roger A.
     Johnson, Pg 16, 37; b in Fairfield Twp, now Union Twp; d 9 Feb 1909 in this
     record.
                  
5
Birth:
22 Aug 1822
Fairfield, Crawford, Pennsylvania
Death:
18 Oct 1908
Meadville, Crawford, Pennsylvania
Marr:
21 Oct 1852
of Crawford, Pennsylvania 
Notes:
                   Ruth Setterquist, 1318 Shelby Dr., Fairfield, CA 95433
BIRTH-MARRIAGE-DEATH: "The Davis Family", Thos. Kirby Davis, pg 34, 60-61:
     b 25 Aug 1822 in Union Twp; d 18 Oct 1908; rem to Meadville at age 21 where
     where he spent all but the last 15 yrs of life & engaged in shoe business;
     md Susan Grier Wilson 21 Oct 1852, who d bef 1908; her mother was a Grier;
     their only child lived but a few hours; mem of First Pres Ch; ordained Elder
     in 1887; musician; taught singing-school & was leader in church choir for a
     quarter of a century; lived with Mr & Mrs Ellicott Davis during the later
     part of his life
BIRTH: Joslyn's Descendants of Henry Cotton, 1983, Pg 23 (Union Twp formerly
     Sadsbury Twp, later Vernon Twp, then Union Twp)
BIRTH-MARRIAGE-DEATH-BURIAL: "Descendants of Henry Cotton", Revised 1994,
     Roger A. Johnson, Pg 37: b 22 Aug 1822 in Fairfield Twp, now Union Twp;
     more in ref
                  
6
Birth:
25 Mar 1824
Mead, Crawford, Pennsylvania
Death:
Dec 1907
Sharon, Mercer, Pennsylvania
Marr:
Abt 1884
 
Notes:
                   RUTH SETTERQUIST, 1318 Shelby Dr., Fairfield,CA 94533
BIRTH-MARRIAGE: 1885 Crawford County History, pg 1108, 1109: m1 Jane Wingate,
     who d 1882/83; no ch; m2 Elizabeth Evans, widow of William Cummings, who
     who d 1878; she had 7 ch from 1st marr; (more info on Evans line this ref)
BIRTH-MARRIAGE-BURIAL: "The Davis Family", Thos. Kirby Davis, pg 37, 61-62:
     grew up on the ancestral farm & spent most of his life on his own farm in
     Vernon Twp; m1 Jane Wingate, who d 1883, no ch; m2 Mrs Elizabeth M.
     Cummings, who preceeded him in death by only 6 weeks; made their home the
     last 4 yrs with his step-dau, Mrs. A. W. Phillips, at So Sharon
BIRTH-MARRIAGE-BURIAL: Joslyn's Descendants of Henry Cotton, 1983, p 23; was
     a farmer in Vernon Twp; Vernon Twp later became Union Twp; had 80 acres in
     Union Twp in 1874; from 1903 he & Elizabeth lived with her dau in So Sharon,
     PA; members of the ME Ch; (more in ref)
BIRTH-MARRIAGE-DEATH-BURIAL: "Descendants of Henry Cotton", Revised 1994,
     Roger A. Johnson, Pg 16, 38 (b in Mead Twp, now Union Twp, Crawford Co, PA;
     m1 Jane Ellen Winkett, or Wingate, 6 Sep 1849 in Meadville, PA; she d
     without issue in 1882; other ref's say md 16 Sep 1849?); m2, in 1884,
     Elizabeth Evans, d/o Peter Evans & widow of William Cummings, who had 7 ch by
     her first husband; (more info in ref)
                  
7
Hugh Cotton DAVIS
Birth:
10 May 1829
Fairfield, Crawford, Pennsylvania
Death:
12 Aug 1831
Fairfield, Crawford, Pennsylvania
 
Marr:
 
Notes:
                   Ruth Setterquist, 1318 Shelby Dr., Fairfield, CA 95433
BIRTH-DEATH: "The Davis Family", Thos. Kirby Davis, pg 34, 62
BIRTH-DEATH: Joslyn's "Descendants of Henry Cotton", 1983, Pg 23: Union Twp.,
     was formerly Vernon Twp & before that was Sadsbury Twp)
BIRTH-DEATH: "Descendants of Henry Cotton", Revised 1994, Roger A. Johnson
      Pg 16 (b in Fairfield Twp, now Union Twp)
                  
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James Davis - Mary Cotton

James Davis was born at Strasburg, Franklin, Pennsylvania 12 Jun 1786.

He married Mary Cotton 25 Oct 1811 at Meadville, Crawford, Pennsylvania . Mary Cotton was born at Strabane, Washington, Pennsylvania 1790 daughter of John Cotton and Margaret Stockton .

They were the parents of 7 children:
William Davis, Jr born 7 Sep 1812.
John Cotton Davis born 30 Mar 1814.
James Stewart Davis born 23 Feb 1816.
Rachel Davis born 6 Jan 1819.
Henry Cotton Davis born 22 Aug 1822.
Robert Stockton Davis born 25 Mar 1824.
Hugh Cotton Davis born 10 May 1829.

James Davis died 3 Sep 1870 at Union, Crawford, Pennsylvania .

Mary Cotton died 5 Feb 1853 at Vernon, Crawford, Pennsylvania .