Individual Notes

Note for:   Nicholas Lafayette Davies,   30 JUL 1825 - 17 APR 1876         Index

Baptism:   

Event:   
     Type:   travel
     Date:   1849
     Place:   , ,California
     Note:   A surviving copy of the letter he wrote to his father from California
on 21 Dec 1849 as a prospector details his experiences.

Event:   
     Type:   census 1860 - free

Event:   
     Type:   census 1870
     Date:   1 JUN 1870
     Place:   Forest, Bedford Co, Virginia

Birth Note:    He is called "Lafayette Nicholas" Davies by some.

Death Note: Source:    p.64



Individual Notes

Note for:   Editha Catherine Davies,   8 OCT 1827 - 23 AUG 1843         Index

Baptism:   

Burial:   

Death Note: Source:    p.75

Death Note:    She died a few weeks after graduation from Miss Chaplin's school in
Lynchburg.



Individual Notes

Note for:   Mary Elizabeth Davies,   21 NOV 1829 - 6 OCT 1902         Index

Baptism:   

Event:   
     Type:   census 1850 - free
     Date:   1 JUN 1850
     Place:   ,Bedford Co, Virginia

Event:   
     Type:   census 1900
     Date:   1 JUN 1900
     Place:   Kansas City, Jackson Co, MO


Individual Notes

Note for:   Washington Gill,   22 APR 1819 - FEB 1902         Index

Occupation:   Engineer

Event:   
     Type:   census 1850 - free
     Date:   1 JUN 1850
     Place:   ,Bedford Co, Virginia

Birth Note:    His mother was Ellen Lee, of the Virginia Lee family.



Individual Notes

Note for:   Julia Berryman Davies,   17 JAN 1832 - MAR 1845         Index

Baptism:   

Burial:   


Individual Notes

Note for:   William Mayo Davies,   23 JAN 1837 -          Index

Christening:   

Event:   
     Type:   census 1850 - free
     Date:   1 JUN 1850
     Place:   Forest, Bedford Co, Virginia

Event:   
     Type:   census 1860 - free
     Date:   1 JUN 1860
     Place:   Forest, Bedford Co, Virginia
     Note:   He is listed as "Farm Manager", living as the eldest child in his
father's home in 1860.

Event:   
     Type:   military service


Individual Notes

Note for:   Frances Meriwether Davies,   28 DEC 1834 - 1872         Index

Baptism:   

Event:   
     Type:   census 1850 - free
     Date:   1 JUN 1850
     Place:   Forest, Bedford Co, Virginia

Event:   
     Type:   census 1860 - free
     Date:   1 JUN 1860
     Place:   Lynchburg, Campbell Co, VA

Event:   
     Type:   census 1870
     Date:   1 JUN 1870
     Place:   Lynchburg, Campbell Co, VA
     Note:   On 16 July 1870, she is listed in the Census as living with her
husband in Lynchburg, but on 15 August she is living with her father,
"Keeping House". It is reasonable to assume her husband had died
between those 2 dates.

Event:   
     Type:   census 1870
     Date:   1 JUN 1870
     Place:   Forest, Bedford Co, Virginia

Death Note:    Her death is inferred from her absence from the 1880 Census, but it is
possible that she remarried. Neither she nor John can be found in the
Bedford Co Death records 1860/1913 and neither left a will in
Lynchburg. They could have moved out of the state.