Abner Davidson b. Abt 1790 North Carolina d. Between 1835 and 1840: Davidson Genealogies

Abt 1790 - 1840 (~ 45 years)

Name	Abner Davidson [1]
Born	Abt 1790	North Carolina [2]
Gender	Male
Group	Davidson 001 Family of Immigrant John Davidson
	Descendants of immigrant John Davidson of DNA Family 001
Group	Davidson Direct Descendant
	Direct Descendant of any immigrant Davidson
Group	Davidson DNA Family 001
	Descendants of John, George, and Samuel Davidson of Beverley Manor, Virginia, and Iredell county, North Carolina
Group	Descendant of Revolutionary War Veteran
	DAR or SAR Eligible Descendant of a Revolutionary War Veteran
Group	Halls of Dauphin County, PA - DNA Family 017
	Descendants of Hugh Hall of Dauphin County, Pennsylvania
Group	Proven Davidson DNA Family 001
	Proven as a descendant of DNA Family 001 by YDNA test of a direct descendant
Residence	1830	Bedford County, Tennessee [1]
	According to the 1830 court documents, he was living in Bedford county. However, he is recorded in the census as living in Franklin county.
FindaGrave Memorial ID	63562161
	https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/63562161
1830 Census	1830	Franklin County, Tennessee
	p. 126 Abner Davidson 210 002 000 0000 - 000 010 000 0000 Census Analysis Male 30-40 : Abner Davidson, b. abt 1790 Female 20-30 : Elizabeth Hall, b. abt 1800 Male 5-10 : William Davidson, b. abt 1824 Male < 5 : John H. Davidson, b. abt 1828 Male < 5 : Thomas Davidson, b. abt 1828 Male 30-40 : ? In 1830 census, he is listed also with 2 male slaves age 10-24 and 2 female slaves age 10-24
		1830 Census Franklin County, TN Shows Abner Davidson, age 30-40, and family
Died	Between 1835 and 1840 [1]
Person ID	I2950	DNA Family 1 Genealogies
Last Modified	16 Apr 2021

Father	William Lee Davidson, b. Abt 1755, Rowan County, North Carolina , d. Aft 25 Feb 1803, Iredell County, North Carolina (Age ~ 48 years)
Mother	Mary "Polly" Dickey, b. 9 Oct 1759, Statesville, Rowan (now Iredell) County, North Carolina , d. Aft 1810 (Age 51 years)
Married	1782	Iredell County, North Carolina
Family ID	F557	Group Sheet \| Family Chart

Family Elizabeth "Eliza" Hall, b. Between 1799 and 1800, North Carolina , d. Unknown

Married Bef 1824 North Carolina

Children

	1. William F. Davidson, b. Abt 1824, North Carolina , d. Unknown, Gibson County, Tennessee
	2. Thomas H. Davidson, b. Abt 1828, Tennessee , d. Unknown, Tennessee
	3. John H. Davidson, b. Abt 1828, Tennessee , d. Abt 1864 (Age ~ 36 years)
	4. Sarah A. "Sallie" Davidson, b. 9 Nov 1831, Tennessee , d. 24 Jun 1916 (Age 84 years)

Last Modified 4 May 2006

Family ID F1485 Group Sheet | Family Chart

Event Map

Born - Abt 1790 - North Carolina

Married - Bef 1824 - North Carolina

Residence - 1830 - Bedford County, Tennessee

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Badges		Davidson DNA Family 001 This family are the Descendants of John Davidson of Beverley Manor, Virginia; George Davidson of North Carolina, and Samuel Davidson of Beverley Manor and North Carolina.
Badges		Revolutionary War Patriot or Soldier Descendant

Notes

Family Tradition as related to John B. Lisle by his Great-Aunt Winifred Davidson Bellegie in family history written in 1958:

"Nine Davidson brothers came to America from Scotland before the Revolutionary War. Our Davidson line is descended from one of those brothers."

Identifying the connection from her family history to the rest of the Davidson genealogy has been one of the more challenging problems. According to her information a Mister Davidson had twin sons John and Thomas and a daughter Sarah. John Davidson married Artemesia Norton and a Leander Davidson married her sister Elizabeth Norton. She related that Leander and John were cousins. From a thorough analysis of the Leander's family that had been well documented, I could find no clue as to how they could have been cousins.

Using another clue that there was a grandfather Hall, I wondered if they could have been cousins through the mothers. Leander's mother was Sarah Caroline Hall. We determined from census data that John Davidson's mother was named Elizabeth and that her husband seems to have died before 1840. A researcher on the internet provided a clue that Sarah's father was a Fergus Hall, son of Thomas Hall and Elizabeth Sloan of Iredell County. Fergus Hall had migrated with his family to Bedford County, TN, in the early 1820s. However, little documentation existed on Fergus Hall's family.

I also research the census data to find out what Davidson's were in Bedford County in the 1820s and 1830s. I discovered that William Davidson, son of Col. George Davidson, had several sons in the area and their families were not well documented. By process of elimination, it was either his son John or his son Abner that were the likely candidates, but I could not find Abner in Bedford County in 1830 census, yet I knew he was in the area because of a court case in Maury County.

In July 1998, a contact on the internet found a reference in a rare Hall genealogy - "The Hall Family History" by Mrs. T. L. Adams. (printed in 1949) to the family of Fergus Hall. In it Fergus is listed with a daughter Elizabeth who married Abner Davidson!

Further census work found Abner in neighboring Franklin County in 1830 census. The family structure matches and we have identified that an older son William also existed. With reasonable certainty we now have the connection.

Sources

[S8] Davison/Davidson Family, Robert Stephens Hand, (2nd Ed., 1991), p. 25 (Reliability: 3).
[S8] Davison/Davidson Family, Robert Stephens Hand, (2nd Ed., 1991), p. 25 (Reliability: 3).
Census records from 1790 and 1800 suggest that Abner was born about 1790