Eva Davidson

Other Events:

• Group: Davidson 001 Family of Immigrant John Davidson
• Group: Davidson DNA Family 001
• Occupation: 1878; Sister in an Episcopal Convent

Notes:

Group:
Descendants of immigrant John Davidson of DNA Family 001

Group:
Descendants of John, George, and Samuel Davidson of Beverley Manor, Virginia, and Iredell county, North Carolina

Other Events:

• Group: Davidson 001 Family of Immigrant John Davidson
• Group: Davidson DNA Family 001
• Graduation: 1837; Transylvania Medical School - Lexington, ____, KY
• 1850 Census: 1850
• 1880 Census: 1880

Notes:

DR. JOHN F. DAVIDSON

DAVIDSON, DR. JOHN -- Arrived at Nacogdoches, Texas, January 8, 1836.  In Service Record No. 2225 it is certified that he served in the army from "March 4 to June 15, 1836, 3 months and 15 days at $117.00 per month." For this he was on December 23, 1853, issued Bounty Certificate No. 1461 for 320 acres of land.  At San Jacinto he was Surgeon of the First Regiment of Texas Volunteers, and on September 27, 1850, he was issued Donation Certificate No. 228 for 640 acres of land for having participated in the battle.  He was issued a Headright Certificate February 10, 1853, for one-third of a league of land in conformity with an act of the Legislature approved February 7, 1853.

Dr. Davidson was living in Rusk County, Texas, December 23, 1852. Following is a copy of an affidavit in the files of Memorials and Petitions, Archives, Texas State Library, signed by Dr. Davidson in Rusk County, December 23, 1852:

"Personally appeared before me the undersigned authority John F. Davidson, who after being duly sworn states that on or about the 8th day of January 1836 he arrived in Texas -- That at the Town of Nacogdoches he took the oath of allegiance to the government of Texas -- before one John Forbes, then an acting Alcalde -- That in the month of March 1836 he joined the army at its organization at the Town of Gonzales, and them and there was attached to the Staff of the lamented Burleson, as regimental surgeon of said Edward Burleson's Regiment -- That he served in the army of Texas in the capacity aforesaid, the date of the organization aforesaid at Gonzales -- up to about the 10th day of June 1836 -- That he was in the Battle of San Jacinto on the 21st and 22nd of April 1836 and that he was Honorable discharged -- on about the 10th of June 1836.  And that at the time he was discharged it was his intention to have proceeded to the United States to raise an additional force to join the army Texas-

That at the time he left Texas in the year 1836 -- it was his intention to have returned but owing to circumstances he did not return until the year 1849 -- That in the year 1836 he was a single man.  But that since that time to wit in the year 1845, he married and that he removed to Texas with his family in the year 1849; and that he is now and has been for the last 3 years a resident citizen of the County of Rusk.

That he has not received any lands of the State Texas or of the Republic of Texas or evidences of a right to come save and except a land warrant for 640 acres for his services in "the battle of San Jacinto""

(Source - http://www.sanjacinto-museum.org/kemp/v219.html )
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1850 Census - Rusk District, Rusk Co., TX, page 286

721 721 J. F. Davidson 40 M Farmer 5000   TN
              Mary   "            35 F                         TN  (Mary Malinda Davidson, d/o John Osimus Davidson))
              Otey   "              3 M                         MS
              Thos. J. "         23 M Farmer            TN  (This is his wife brother - Thomas Jefferson Davidson)
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1880
Name  Relation Marital Status Gender Race Age Birthplace Occupation Father's Birthplace Mother's Birthplace
John D. MARTIN   Self   M   Male   W   30   MS   Farmer   TN   NC
Mary MARTIN   Wife   M   Female   W   29   TX   Keep House   MS   MS
Mary MARTIN   Dau   S   Female   W   7   MS      MS   TX
John D. MARTIN   Son   S   Male   W   5   MS      MS   TX
Eva MARTIN   Dau   S   Female   W   3   MS      MS   TX
Frank MARTIN   Son   S   Male   W   1   MS      MS   TX
J.F. DAVIDSON   FatherL   W   Male   W   70   TN   Retired Physician TN   TN
Robert TANFORD   Other   S   Male   W   17   PA   Farm Labor   PA   PA
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Source Information:
  Census Place District 4, Marshall, Mississippi
  NA Film Number   T9-0657
  Page Number   571B

Group:
Descendants of immigrant John Davidson of DNA Family 001

Group:
Descendants of John, George, and Samuel Davidson of Beverley Manor, Virginia, and Iredell county, North Carolina

1850 Census:
Rusk District, Rusk Co., TX, p. 286

1880 Census:
District 4, Marshall Co., MS

John married Mary Malinda Davidson on 24 Dec 1845 in Columbia, Maury County, Tennessee. Mary (daughter of John Osimus Davidson and Ruth Ragsdale) was born on 10 Jun 1815 in Tennessee; died in 1875. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events:

• Group: Davidson 001 Family of Immigrant John Davidson
• Group: Davidson DNA Family 001

Notes:

Group:
Descendants of immigrant John Davidson of DNA Family 001

Group:
Descendants of John, George, and Samuel Davidson of Beverley Manor, Virginia, and Iredell county, North Carolina

Other Events:

• Group: Davidson 001 Family of Immigrant John Davidson
• Group: Davidson DNA Family 001
• FindaGrave Memorial ID: 25553120
• Alt. Birth: Abt 1785, Virginia
• 1840 Census: 1840
• 1850 Census: 10 Sep 1850

Notes:

Group:
Descendants of immigrant John Davidson of DNA Family 001

Group:
Descendants of John, George, and Samuel Davidson of Beverley Manor, Virginia, and Iredell county, North Carolina

FindaGrave Memorial ID:
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/25553120

1840 Census:
____, Lafayette Co., MS, p. 171, 021 201 010 0000 - 122 200 100 0000

1850 Census:
____, Lafayette Co., MS, p. 233

Ephraim married Mary "Polly" Brank about 1811 in Paint Lick, Garrard County, Kentucky. Mary (daughter of Robert Brank, Jr. and Margaret McLean) was born on 25 Dec 1789 in Kentucky; died on 25 Dec 1864; was buried after 25 Dec 1864 in College Hill Presbyterian Cemetery, Oxford, Lafayette County, Mississippi. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events:

• Group: Davidson 001 Family of Immigrant John Davidson
• Group: Davidson DNA Family 001
• FindaGrave Memorial ID: 26436805
• 1860 Census: 10 Sep 1860

Notes:

Group:
Descendants of immigrant John Davidson of DNA Family 001

Group:
Descendants of John, George, and Samuel Davidson of Beverley Manor, Virginia, and Iredell county, North Carolina

FindaGrave Memorial ID:
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/26436805

1860 Census:
Paris PO, Lafayette Co., MS, p. 105

Other Events:

• Name: John Ossicar Davidson
• Group: Davidson 001 Family of Immigrant John Davidson
• Group: Davidson DNA Family 001
• FindaGrave Memorial ID: 25553015
• Alt. Birth: 29 Jan 1790, Burke County, North Carolina
• 1840 Census: 1840
• 1850 Census: 10 Sep 1850
• Alt. Death: 12 Dec 1856

Notes:

From FindaGrave:

Son of John "One Eye" DAVIDSON and Ruth CLEMENT. Married his first cousin.

Corporal in the Maury County, TN militia in the War of 1812. His company, a mounted regiment under General Coffee left Tennessee for Huntsville Alabama to suppress the Creek Indian Uprising. In his 1853 application for bounty land, he listed himself as a spy (scout) against the Creeks along the Tennessee River.

Children: Mary Malinda, John Calvin, Helen Jane, Gabriel Ragsdale, Thomas Jefferson, Samuel Newton, Albert Blout, Ruth Elizabeth, Sarah Brank, Daniel Webster, Pitzer Miller

Group:
Descendants of immigrant John Davidson of DNA Family 001

Group:
Descendants of John, George, and Samuel Davidson of Beverley Manor, Virginia, and Iredell county, North Carolina

FindaGrave Memorial ID:
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/25553015

1840 Census:
____, Lafayette Co., MS, p. 171, 202 110 100 0000 - 020 110 100 0000

1850 Census:
____, Lafayette Co., MS, p. 233

John married Ruth Ragsdale in 1814 in Hardeman County, Tennessee. Ruth (daughter of Gabriel Ragsdale and Mary Ruth Davidson) was born on 18 Nov 1793 in North Carolina; died on 16 Jun 1870 in College Hill, Lafayette County, Mississippi; was buried after 16 Jun 1870 in College Hill Presbyterian Cemetery, Oxford, Lafayette County, Mississippi. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events:

• Group: Davidson 001 Family of Immigrant John Davidson
• Group: Davidson DNA Family 001
• 1860 Census: 11 Sep 1860

Notes:

Group:
Descendants of immigrant John Davidson of DNA Family 001

Group:
Descendants of John, George, and Samuel Davidson of Beverley Manor, Virginia, and Iredell county, North Carolina

1860 Census:
____, Lafayette Co., MS, p. 110

Other Events:

• Name: John "One-eyed" Davidson
• Group: Davidson 001 Family of Immigrant John Davidson
• Group: Davidson DNA Family 001
• FindaGrave Memorial ID: 18489555
• Alt. Birth: 15 Feb 1749/50, Beverly Manor, Augusta County, Virginia
• 1790 Census: 1790
• 1820 Census: 1820, Maury County, Tennessee
• Alt. Burial: Aft 25 Apr 1825, Ebenezer Churchyard - Columbia, Maury County, Tennessee

Notes:

"One Eyed" John Davidson, eighth and youngest child of John Davison/Davidson and his wife Jane, was baptized at Tinkling Spring in Augusta/Rockbridge Co., VA on 24 Nov 1744 by the Rev. John Craig.

On 7 May 1770, John married Ruth Clement who bore him seven children and who died in 1792 in Burke Co., NC.  The year after Ruth died, John married Frances Bateman, who bore him one child.

In 1777 Burke County was split off from Rowan, and its western boundary extended to the Appalachian mountains.  John and Ruth were living there in 1778.  At the close of the Revolutionary War, John received a grant of 5000 acres in Tennessee for his work in surveying lands for revolutionary soldiers.  He had been a member of Ephraim McLean's surveying party.

Tennessee became a state in 1796.  John sold his lands in Burke County and went, with friends and relatives, to Maury County, Tennessee, where he registered his cattle mark 21 Dec 1807.  Both he and Ephraim McLean were called for Jury duty in Maury County in March 1808.

John died on 25 Apr 1825 at Columbia on Maury County, TN.  He is buried in Ebenezer Churchyard (later called "Reeses") Churchyard.

This is a transcription of the will of John Davidson:

I John Davidson of the County of Maury and state of Tennessee being advanced of aged and infirm but sound of mind and disposing memory do make and ordain this my last will and testament in manner and following

first I wish my body to be buried at the discretion of my Executor, hereafter appointed.  my worldly estate to be divided as follows, to wit, My Negro man Comdon I give and bequeath to him and his heirs forever to Ruth C. [Clements] Davidson daughter of my son Ephraim E. Davidson.  I give a negro boy named Albert to her and her heirs forever.  to Richard Whiteside son of my daughter Ruth Whiteside [Ruth Malinda Davidson, wife of Abram Whiteside] I give my Negro boy William to him and his heirs and assigns forever.  to my beloved wife Francis [Frances Bateman] I Give and bequeath my Negroes Chilsy, a woman, Randall, a Negro boy, and a girl named Gady, which three Negroes I will to her and her heirs forever as her right and to be at her disposal.  to John G. Davidson, son of my son Thomas Davidson [Thomas Irwin Davidson], Dec'd I give and bequeath a horse worth 80 dollars.  to B. C. Davidson son of my son Thomas Davidson I give and bequeath a sorrel colt now claimed by him.  all the ballance of my property I wish sold by my Executors and one third part of which I give and bequeath to my wife to her proper use and behoof forever.  I further wish my Executors to pay over a legacy by me bequeathed to my Children, Grandchildren, and other legal heirs if any not named in this one dollar as a full distributive share of my Estate.  I do further nominate and appoint my son John O. Davidson [John Osimus Davidson] and my son-in-law Paris F. Dooley [husband of Cynthia Eliza Davidson] Executors to this my last will and testament.  And having full confidence in their integrity and honesty no Security is required of them as such, and lest a misunderstanding should take place as to the ballance of my Estate in the hands of my Executors, my will is that after the legacies named in this will is paid the ballance after paying all my just debts are paid I wish divided equally between the heirs of Thomas Davidson in right of their father, Andrew Neely and Jane [Jane (Jennie) Davidson] his wife, Ephraim E. Davidson, John O. Davidson, Paris F. Dooley and Cynthia his wife share and share alike.  I do by this my last will and testament disannul and make void all former wills by me declaring this alone to be my last will and testament.

In testimony whereof I have hereto set my hand and seal this 15th day of June, 1824.

Signed, sealed and disclosed in presence of

Joseph B. Porter, Jurat

It has been noted that John had previously given land to his children as follows:  466 acres to Abram Whitesides when he married Ruth Malinda Davidson; 900 acres to Ephraim Edward Davidson; 800 acres to John Osimus Davidson, plus 200 more to be administered for his step-mother; 400 to Paris Dooley, plus slaves for Cynthia; 120 acres to John Martin, son of his daughter Mary, who was probably dead, since she is not named in the will.

Christened:
Recorded in the book "The Tinkling Spring, Headwater of Freedom" (by Rev. Howard McKnight Wilson, 1954, p. 473) as John Davison, bp. 25 Nov. 1744, son of John Davison.

Group:
Descendants of immigrant John Davidson of DNA Family 001

Group:
Descendants of John, George, and Samuel Davidson of Beverley Manor, Virginia, and Iredell county, North Carolina

FindaGrave Memorial ID:
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/18489555

Alt. Birth:
From FindaGrave

1790 Census:
____, Burke Co., NC, p. 106, 3-5-6-6

1820 Census:
p. 69
John Davison   020001 - 01001 - 0300

Male        > 45 : John "One Eye" Davidson, b. 1744
Female   > 45 : Frances Bateman, b. bef 1775
Male     10-16 : ?
Male     10-16 : ?
Female 10-16 : ?

Buried:
Inscription on Tomb
"Sacred to the Memory of John Davidson, who in the meridian of - - - life Zealously Espoused the Cause of Freedom - - - - in the memorable struggle of 1776 after securing liberty to his posterity, Retired and through - - - ong life realized the blessings in the peaceful persuits of - - - - - - - Agriculture - - - - - - - - - - - D - - - - At a good Old Age. Yielded to death - - - - - and has been intered on - - - - - - - - - - 28 Feb. 1825.

Blessed are the dead which die in the Lord
With Hope of Bliss her d - - - - - - - - - -
That Soul and Matter part - - - - - - - - - -
Illumes the Mansions of the Gra- - - - - - -."

John married Ruth Clements on 7 May 1770 in North Carolina. Ruth (daughter of John Carlile and Mary [--?--], daughter of Jacob Clements and Mary Campbell) was born on 4 Jan 1756 in Augusta County, Virginia; died on 13 Jan 1793 in Burke County, North Carolina. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events:

• FindaGrave Memorial ID: 189532700
• Alt. Birth: Abt 1750

Notes:

From FindaGrave:

Ruth Clements, daughter of Jacob & Mary (Campbell) Clements, was born before 1755 probably in Augusta County, Virginia, where her father Jacob Clements lived and died Sep 1, 1754 in Augusta County. Ruth married John Osimus Davidson, Sr. May 9, 1770. Ruth and John Davidson had six children: Jane Davidson b. 1774, Thomas Irwin Davidson b. May 16, 1775, Mary Davidson b. 1778, Ephraim Edwin Davidson b. Feb 12, 1785, John Osimus Davidson, Jr. b. June 28, 1791, and Ruth Malinda Davidson b. 1792. Ruth Clements Davidson died in 1792 in Burke County, North Carolina.

FindaGrave Memorial ID:
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/189532700

Other Events:

• FindaGrave Memorial ID: 21762301

Notes:

FindaGrave Memorial ID:
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/21762301

Robert married Margaret McLean on 28 Sep 1778 in Burke County, North Carolina. Margaret (daughter of Capt. Ephraim McLean and Elizabeth Davidson) was born in Jun 1763 in Burke County, North Carolina; died on 25 Dec 1837; was buried after 25 Dec 1837 in Old Paint Lick Cemetery, Paint Lick, Garrard County, Kentucky. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events:

• Group: Davidson 001 Family of Immigrant John Davidson
• Group: Davidson DNA Family 001
• FindaGrave Memorial ID: 11358140
• Alt. Birth: 26 Dec 1761

Notes:

Group:
Descendants of immigrant John Davidson of DNA Family 001

Group:
Descendants of John, George, and Samuel Davidson of Beverley Manor, Virginia, and Iredell county, North Carolina

FindaGrave Memorial ID:
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/11358140

Alt. Birth:
From FindaGrave

Notes:

Died:
Gabriel Ragsdale was killed by Indians.

Gabriel married Mary Ruth Davidson in 1787. Mary (daughter of Capt. Samuel Davidson and Mary Smith) was born about 1767; died in Unknown. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events:

• Group: Davidson 001 Family of Immigrant John Davidson
• Group: Davidson DNA Family 001
• 1800 Census: 1800

Notes:

Group:
Descendants of immigrant John Davidson of DNA Family 001

Group:
Descendants of John, George, and Samuel Davidson of Beverley Manor, Virginia, and Iredell county, North Carolina

1800 Census:
____, Buncombe Co., NC, p. 185, 21100-10010-01