When Mary Jane Davis was born on 24 July 1838, in Dundee Township, Monroe, Michigan, United States, her father, Asaph Squires Davis, was 28 and her mother, Amanda White, was 33. She married Robert W. Grannis on 14 May 1864, in United States. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 5 daughters. She lived in Michigan, United States in 1870 and Milan Township, Monroe, Michigan, United States for about 20 years. She died on 19 February 1904, in Washtenaw, Michigan, United States, at the age of 65, and was buried in Marble Park Cemetery, Milan, Monroe, Michigan, United States.
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Established in 1839
U.S. acquires vast tracts of Mexican territory in wake of Mexican War including California and New Mexico.
Although divided as a state on the subject of slavery, Ohio participated in the Civil War on the Union's side, providing over 300,000 troops. Ohio provided the 3rd largest number of troops by any Union 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.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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