When William Flemming Davis was born on 25 December 1838, in Camp Dick Robinson, Garrard, Kentucky, United States, his father, Asael Davis Jr., was 51 and his mother, Sarah Ballinger Tucker, was 42. He married Hannah E. Poor in May 1867, in Rockbridge, Monroe, Kentucky, United States. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 1 daughter. He lived in Garrard, Kentucky, United States in 1850 and Magisterial District 4, Boyle, Kentucky, United States in 1880. He died on 18 June 1884, in Boyle, Kentucky, United States, at the age of 45.
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U.S. acquires vast tracts of Mexican territory in wake of Mexican War including California and New Mexico.
According to the 1850 census Kentucky was the 8th most populated state with 982,405 people.
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.
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