Individual Notes
Note for: Nicholas Lafayette Davies, 30 JUL 1825 - 17 APR 1876
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Baptism: Burial:
Individual Notes
Note for: William Mayo Davies, 23 JAN 1837 -
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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
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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.