Telitha Davis was born on 2 December 1818, in Tennessee, United States as the daughter of Davis and Mrs Davis. She married James Baker Norton about 1835, in Adams, Illinois, United States. They were the parents of at least 11 sons and 5 daughters. She lived in Missouri, United States in 1870 and Madison Township, Mercer, Missouri, United States in 1880. She died on 5 September 1882, in Modena, Mercer, Missouri, United States, at the age of 63, and was buried in Chestnut Cemetery, Modena, Mercer, Missouri, United States.
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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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