Brief Life History of Mary Elizabeth
Mary Elizabeth Davis was born on 31 March 1791, in Loudoun, Virginia, United States as the daughter of William T. Davis and Lucinda Carpenter. She married Elias Hickman on 26 February 1818, in Virginia, United States. They were the parents of at least 6 sons and 3 daughters. She lived in Barbour, Virginia, United States in 1860 and Elk District, Barbour, West Virginia, United States in 1880. She died on 7 March 1890, in Wirt, West Virginia, United States, at the age of 98, and was buried in Hickman Cemetery, Pulaski, Virginia, United States.
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- Elizabeth Hickman in household of Gery Hickman, "United States Census, 1880"
- Legacy NFS Source: Elizabeth Davis - Individual or family possessions: birth-name: Elizabeth Davis
- Eliz. Hickman, "Virginia, Bureau of Vital Statistics, County Marriage Registers, 1853-1935"
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1794 · Creating the Eleventh Amendment
The Eleventh Amendment restricts the ability of any people to start a lawsuit against the states in federal court.
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The Monumental Church was built between 1812-1814 on the sight where the Richmond Theatre fire had taken place. It is a monument to those that died in the fire.
1819 · Panic! of 1819
With the Aftermath of the Napoleonic Wars the global market for trade was down. During this time, America had its first financial crisis and it lasted for only two years.
Name Meaning
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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