Jul-28-2018                   
             Husband: Elias L. Davis    
                Born: ca 1812              in Harrison Co, (W)VA  1
                Died: Apr- 9-1886           
              Buried:                      in Parkersburg, Wood Co, WV  2
              Census: 1870, 1880           in Parkersburg, Wood Co, WV   (see note 1)
              Census: 1860                 in Parkersburg, Wood Co, (W)VA  
              Census: 1850                 in Wood Co, (W)VA  
          Occupation:                      carpenter  3,4,5
            Military: (enlisted 1863)      Lt, Co D, 4th W.Va. Cav, Civil War  2
              Father: David L. Davis   (1787 - 1849) 
              Mother: Lydia Jeffrey   (1793 - 1852) 
                Wife: Amanda K. Hoskinson     
             Married: Oct-27-1835          in Harrison Co, (W)VA  6
                Born: ca 1818               
              Census: 1870, 1880           in Parkersburg, Wood Co, WV  
              Census: 1860                 in Parkersburg, Wood Co, (W)VA  
              Census: 1850                 in Wood Co, (W)VA  
              Father:
              Mother:
           F Child 1: Lydia M. Davis      
                Born: ca 1847               3
              Census: 1880                 in Parkersburg, Wood Co, WV  
              Census: 1860                 in Parkersburg, Wood Co, (W)VA  
              Census: 1850                 in Wood Co, (W)VA  
             Husband: William McKindley  b. ca 1837  

Sources:
(1) Susie Davis Nicholson, Davis - The Settlers of Salem, West Virginia, Gordon Printing Co, Strasburg OH, 1979 (Revised & 
Enlarged) < www.wvgenweb.org/harrison/books.htm >, p. 33. 
(2) Headstones Provided for Deceased Union Civil War Veterans, 1879-1903 [database on-line], Ancestry.com, from Records of 
the Office of the Quartermaster General, Record Grp 92; National Archives, Washington 
DC. 
(3) 1850 Census, Wood County, (W)VA. 
(4) 1860 Census, Wood County, (W)VA. 
(5) 1870 Census, Wood County, WV. 
(6) West Virginia Marriages Index, 1785-1971 [database on-line], Ancestry.com. 

Event Notes
Note (1) In 1880, Elias L. Davis and his wife were in the household of their daughter
& son-in-law, Lydia & William McKindley and their six children.







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