Doddridge County Roots


A West Virginia Genealogy

First Name Last Name
Keziah Fatima DAVIS

Keziah Fatima DAVIS

Female 1866 - 1928  (62 years)


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  • Name Keziah Fatima DAVIS
    Birth 6 May 1866  Doddridge Co, WV Find all individuals with events at this location  [1, 2] 
    Gender Female
    Census 1900, 1920  New Milton District, Doddridge Co, WV Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Death 10 Dec 1928  New Milton, Doddridge Co, WV Find all individuals with events at this location  [1, 3] 
    Cause: tuberculosis 
    Burial Childers Cemetery, New Milton, Doddridge Co, WV Find all individuals with events at this location  [4] 
    Person ID I48615  Doddridge County Roots
    Last Modified 7 Jun 2016

    Father Er DAVIS,   b. 21 Sep 1840, Harrison Co, (W)VA Find all individuals with events at this locationd. Bef Apr 1930 (Age 89 years)
    Mother Sarah POLAN,   b. 16 Jun 1846   d. 21 May 1881 (Age 34 years)
    Family ID F14763  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family Joshua Thomas ROSS,   b. 12 Oct 1856, Virginia Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 14 Mar 1930, New Milton, Doddridge Co, WV Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 73 years)
    Marriage 17 Dec 1890  Doddridge Co, WV Find all individuals with events at this location  [5] 
    Notes 
    • 1900 Census, Doddridge Co, WV (New Milton District):
      Joshua T. Ross, 43, b. Oct 1856, married 9 yrs; wife Kiziah, 34, b. May 1866, mother of 4 children (all still living); son Freddie E, 8, b. Feb 1892; dau Frankie L, 6, b. Sep 1893; dau Fredie M, 4, b. Mar 1896; daughter "not named," age 1month, b. May 1900; sister-in-law Ida B. Childers, 36, b. Apr 1864, widowed, mother of 6 children (all still living); niece Vestie M. Childers, 1, b. Jun 1898.
      (NOTE: There is no birth record for the unnamed daughter, and she did not appear in the 1910 Census. Her identity as Flossie was determined from her death record.)

      1910 Census, Doddridge Co, WV (New Milton District), enumerated on May 6 1910:
      Joshua Ross, 53, farmer, married 19 yrs; wife Kessiah, 43, married 19 yrs, mother of 6 children (4 still living); son Fred, 18, farm laborer, single; dau Freda, 14; son Willie, 6; son Hary, 3.
    Children 
    >1. Fred Earl ROSS,   b. 1 Feb 1892, Blandville, Doddridge Co, WV Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 21 Feb 1985 (Age 93 years)
     2. Frankie L. ROSS,   b. Sep 1893   d. Bef May 1910 (Age ~ 16 years)
    +3. Freda Mabel ROSS,   b. 31 Mar 1896   d. 16 Jan 1992 (Age 95 years)
     4. Flossie V. ROSS,   b. 13 May 1900, New Milton District, Doddridge Co, WV Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 6 Apr 1904, New Milton District, Doddridge Co, WV Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 3 years)
    +5. William Forrest ROSS,   b. 2 Jul 1903, New Milton, Doddridge Co, WV Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 16 Nov 1953, Warrenton, Fauquier Co, VA Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 50 years)
    +6. Harry Edwin ROSS,   b. 19 Aug 1906, Blandville, Doddridge Co, WV Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 3 May 1993 (Age 86 years)
    Family ID F19999  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

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  • Sources 
    1. [S1563] Doddridge County Death Records, West Union, WV.

    2. [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. 177.

    3. [S1773] Doddridge County WV Deaths 1853-1969, (Wes Cochran, 156 Gihon Meadows, Apt 150, Parkersburg, WV 26101).

    4. [S934] Findagrave.com.

    5. [S1774] Doddridge County WV Marriages 1845-1937, (Wes Cochran, 156 Gihon Meadows, Apt 150, Parkersburg, WV 26101 (Jan 1993)).
      Identified as Joshua T. Ross, 30, b. Bath Co VA, res. Doddridge Co; and Keziah F. Davis, 24, of Doddridge Co. Married Dec 17 1890.