When Emma Clarissa Davis was born in September 1859, in Perry Township, Carroll, Ohio, United States, her father, Joshua Davis, was 32 and her mother, Angeline McQueen, was 31. She married Albert Franklin Stoneman on 30 June 1881, in Tuscarawas, Ohio, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 1 daughter. She lived in United States in 1949 and Canton Township, Stark, Ohio, United States in 1950. She died on 27 July 1954, in Canton, Stark, Ohio, United States, at the age of 94, and was buried in New Cumberland Cemetery, New Cumberland, Tuscarawas, Ohio, United States.
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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.
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
Statue of Liberty is dedicated.
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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