Evan Davis, Jr.

Evan Davis Jr went to Georgia about 1757, settling in Savannah County in 1758, in St. Pauls Parish and later in Wilkes County, where he died.

Davis' paternal grandparents each immigrated separately to North America from the region of Snowdonia in North Wales in the early 1700s. The rest of his ancestry was English. After arriving in Philadelphia, Davis' paternal grandfather Evan settled in the colony of Georgia, which was developed chiefly along the coast. He married the widow Lydia Emory Williams, who had two sons from a previous marriage.

Their son Samuel Emory Davis was born in 1756. He served in the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War, along with his two older half-brothers. In 1783, after the war, he married Jane Cook. She was born in 1759 to William Cook and his wife Sarah Simpson in what is now Christian County, Kentucky. In 1793, the Samuel Davis family relocated to Kentucky, establishing what is now the community of Fairview on the border of Christian and Todd counties. Samuel and Jane Davis had ten children; Joseph was the oldest son, born in 1784; Jefferson was the last and was born on June 3, 1807 or 1808, on the Davis homestead in Fairview.[7] The year of his birth is uncertain; Davis gave both 1807 and 1808, at different points in his life.[8] Samuel had been a young man when Thomas Jefferson wrote the Declaration of Independence in 1776. Jefferson was the third President of the United States, and Samuel, admiring him greatly, named his last son after the president.[9] Abraham Lincoln was born a year or two later, less than 100 miles (160 km) to the northeast in Hodgenville, Kentucky. In the early 1900s, the Jefferson Davis State Historic Site was established near the site of Davis' birth.[10]

Origins

Genealogical Summary Testator: Evan Davis (Sr.) [great-grandfather of Jefferson Davis] Wife: Mary Children: Benjamin, William, Samuel, Hannah, Joseph, Evan (Jr.) Date signed: 17 Mar 1743 Date proved: 14 May 1747 Witnesses: Joseph Harmer, Samuel Young, Jno Green Recorded: Register of Wills, Book H, 256 ff. (Philadelphia City Hall, Philadelphia Co., PA.

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Child of Stephen Or Joseph EMORY is:

• 3. i. Mary Lydia EMORY was born ABT. 1719 in Philadelphia Co, PA, and died ABT. 1768 in GA?. She married Thomas Edward WILLIAMS 1752 in Philadelphia Co, PA. He was born 1715 in PA, and died 1754 in Philadelphia Co, PA. She married Evan DAVIS ABT. 1755 in , son of John I. DAVIS and Ann C. THOMAS. He was born 1702 in Merion TWP, Phil. Co., Pa, and died BET. 1758 - 1767 in Bef the Rev War (Wilkes Co, GA?).

References

• 4. Haskell M. Monroe., Jr. & James T. McIntosh, eds. 1971. "Genealogy of the Davis Family." Appendix IV, pp. 505-529 in Papers of Jefferson Davis, Volume 1, 1808-1840. Louisiana State Univ. Press, Baton Rouge. [Rev. ed. of 1991 not seen.]
• https://jeffersondavis.rice.edu/about-jefferson-davis/genealogy-dav...
• https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Davis-6641