When James Watkin Davis was born on 28 October 1828, in Radnor, Delaware, Ohio, United States, his father, Robert Davis Jr, was 52 and his mother, Jane Watkins, was 44. He married Elizabeth Bevis on 15 October 1846, in Delaware, Ohio, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 daughter. He lived in Jackson Township, Clay, Indiana, United States for about 10 years. He died on 6 October 1888, in Hutchinson, Reno, Kansas, United States, at the age of 59, and was buried in West Center Cemetery, Partridge, Reno, Kansas, United States.
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Being a second spiritual and religious awakening, like the First Great Awakening, many Churches began to spring up from other denominations. Many people began to rapidly join the Baptist and Methodist congregations. Many converts to these religions believed that the Awakening was the precursor of a new millennial age.
Historical Boundaries: 1832: Clay, Indiana, United States
U.S. acquires vast tracts of Mexican territory in wake of Mexican War including California and New Mexico.
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.
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