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Silas Benton DAVIS

Silas Benton DAVIS

Male 1870 - 1940  (70 years)


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  • Name Silas Benton DAVIS
    Birth 11 May 1870  Doddridge Co, WV Find all individuals with events at this location  [1, 2, 3, 4] 
    Gender Male
    Census 1870, 1880  Grant District, Doddridge Co, WV Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Occupation instructor at Salem College  [1] 
    Residence 1895  Harrison Co, WV Find all individuals with events at this location  [2] 
    Residence 1925  Chicago, Cook Co, IL Find all individuals with events at this location  [5] 
    Death 14 Nov 1940  Chicago, Cook Co, IL Find all individuals with events at this location  [3, 6] 
    Burial IOOF Cemetery, Salem, Harrison Co, WV Find all individuals with events at this location  [6, 7] 
    Person ID I48403  Doddridge County Roots
    Last Modified 21 Dec 2020

    Father Herman Berkeley DAVIS,   b. 1 Jan 1841, Harrison Co, (W)VA Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 19 Apr 1925, Hot Springs, Garland Co, AR Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 84 years)
    Mother Elizabeth Virginia MCMILLAN,   b. 23 Jan 1842, Brooke Co, (W)VA Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 1918 (Age 75 years)
    Family ID F19884  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family Lillie Myrtle LOWE,   b. CA 1870, Harrison Co, WV Find all individuals with events at this location  [1]
    Marriage 3 Dec 1895  Shinnston, Harrison Co, WV Find all individuals with events at this location  [8] 
    Family ID F19888  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

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  • Sources 
    1. [S83] 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. 92.

    2. [S1654] Harrison County Marriage Records, Clarksburg, WV.

    3. [S638] Headstone (year only).

    4. [S2107] 1870 Census, Doddridge County, WV (Grant Twp).

    5. [S1659] Death record of father.

    6. [S934] Findagrave.com.

    7. [S2243] Cemeteries of Tenmile District, Harrison County, WV, (Harrison County Genealogical Society, Clarksburg, WV (1989, revised 1995)).

    8. [S1654] Harrison County Marriage Records, Clarksburg, WV, MR p. 169.
      Identified as Silas Benton Davis, 25, b. Doddridge Co, res. Harrison Co, son of H. B. & Emily (sic) V. Davis; and Lillie Myrtle Lowe, 25, b. & res. in Harrison Co, dau of Charles & Mary C. Lowe. Married Dec 3 1895 in Shinnston.