Rachel Ann Waller

Brief Life History of Rachel Ann

When Rachel Ann Waller was born on 12 March 1835, in Loudoun, Virginia, United States, her father, George W. Waller, was 35 and her mother, Melinda Laney Lewis, was 34. She married Theodore Davis in 1854, in Doddridge, Virginia, United States. They were the parents of at least 9 sons and 3 daughters. She lived in Grant District, Doddridge, West Virginia, United States in 1870 and New Milton, Doddridge, West Virginia, United States in 1880. She died on 30 July 1888, in Long Run, Doddridge, West Virginia, United States, at the age of 53, and was buried in Doddridge, West Virginia, United States.

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Family Time Line

Theodore Davis
1831–1924
Rachel Ann Waller
1835–1888
Marriage: 1854
Sarah Ellen Davis
1854–1940
Lenora Davis
1857–1931
Charles E. Davis
1859–1902
John Jefferson Davis
1862–1956
Robert Lee Davis
1863–1932
Thomas Davis
1865–1865
Malinda Jane Davis
1866–1922
Emery Everett Davis
1868–1936
Ed Davis
1869–1898
Ira B. Davis
1869–
Early Davis
1870–1943
Lewis V Davis
1875–

Sources (28)

  • Rachel A Davis in household of Theodore Davis, "United States Census, 1870"
  • Legacy NFS Source: Rachael A. Waller - birth: about 1835; ,Loudoun, Virginia, United States
  • Rachel Davis, "West Virginia Deaths, 1804-1999"

World Events (8)

1836 · Remember the Alamo

Being a monumental event in the Texas Revolution, The Battle of the Alamo was a thirteen-day battle at the Alamo Mission near San Antonio. In the early morning of the final battle, the Mexican Army advanced on the Alamo. Quickly being overrun, the Texian Soldiers quickly withdrew inside the building. The battle has often been overshadowed by events from the Mexican–American War, But the Alamo gradually became known as a national battle site and later named an official Texas State Shrine.

1844 · Lumpkin's Jail

In 1844 when Robert Lumpkin bought land in Virginia, this would be the spot of the Infamous Slave Jail (or Lumpkin’s Jail). The slaves would be brought here during the slave trade until they were sold. Lumpkin had purchased the land for his own slave business.

1861 · The Battle of Manassas

The Battle of Manassas is also referred to as the First Battle of Bull Run. 35,000 Union troops were headed towards Washington D.C. after 20,000 Confederate forces. The McDowell's Union troops fought with General Beauregard's Confederate troops along a little river called Bull Run. 

Name Meaning

English: occupational name from Middle English waler, waliere, walour, waller ‘builder of walls, mason’.

English: in Sussex, perhaps a topographic name for someone who lived by a prominent wall.

English: topographic name for someone who lived by a spring, stream, or man-made well, from Middle English waller, a derivative of Middle English walle, Old English wælle, wælle. It is a West Midlands dialect form of Weller .

Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.

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