When Mique Ann Hardin Davis was born on 26 November 1838, in Warren, Kentucky, United States, her father, William Riley Davis, was 21 and her mother, Christina Adeline Hickman, was 22. She married Thomas Riley Isbell on 16 October 1859, in Lawrence, Missouri, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 2 daughters. She lived in Ozark Township, Lawrence, Missouri, United States in 1870 and Mount Vernon Township, Lawrence, Missouri, United States in 1880. She died on 3 September 1896, in Lawrence, Missouri, United States, at the age of 57, and was buried in Davis Cemetery, Lincoln Township, Lawrence, Missouri, United States.
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Historical Boundaries: 1845: Lawrence, Missouri, United States
U.S. acquires vast tracts of Mexican territory in wake of Mexican War including California and New Mexico.
Kentucky sided with the Union during the Civil War, even though it is a southern state.
English and Welsh: patronymic meaning ‘Dafydd's (son)’, equivalent to Welsh ap Dafydd, the Welsh form of David . The spelling Davis is more typical in southwestern England northwards as far as Lancashire, where the frequency of the surname largely reflects Welsh migration, but may sometimes represent a native English surname based on Davy (compare Davies ). Davis (including in the sense 2 below) is the eighth most frequent surname in the US. It is also very common among African Americans.
Irish and Scottish: adopted for Gaelic Mac Daibhéid ‘son of David’; see McDevitt . Compare Davies .
History: John Davis or Davys (c. 1550–1605) was an English navigator who searched for the Northwest Passage. — By the 18th century there were numerous persons named Davis in America, including the jurist John Davis, born in 1761 in Plymouth, MA, and Henry Davis, a clergyman and college president, who was born in 1771 in East Hampton, NY. — Jefferson Davis, born in 1808 in KY, was president of the Confederate States of America from 1861 to 1865.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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