When Virginia " Jennie" Washington Davis was born on 20 October 1850, in Tennessee, United States, her father, Robert Andrew Davis, was 61 and her mother, Augusta Anne Shumate, was 47. She married Ira Griffin Burnett Jr on 13 December 1868, in Davidson, Tennessee, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 2 daughters. She lived in District 5, Grainger, Tennessee, United States in 1880 and Justice Precinct 4, Ellis, Texas, United States for about 20 years. She died after 1920, in Milford, Ellis, Texas, United States.
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Historical Boundaries: 1853: Ellis, Texas, United States
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
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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