Brief Life History of Simeon Marion
When Simeon Marion Davis was born on 28 August 1842, in White, Illinois, United States, his father, Vachel Minor Davis, was 35 and his mother, Malinda O. Kelly, was 30. He married Sarah Evaline Allen on 31 October 1867, in Hamilton, Illinois, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son. He lived in Rector Township, Saline, Illinois, United States in 1900 and Mayberry Township, Hamilton, Illinois, United States in 1910. He died on 29 May 1913, in Broughton, Hamilton, Illinois, United States, at the age of 70, and was buried in Eldorado, Saline, Illinois, United States.
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- Simon M Davis in household of Machael Davis, "United States Census, 1850"
- Simeon Marion Davis, "Find A Grave Index"
- Simeon M Davis, "United States General Index to Pension Files, 1861-1934"
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1846
U.S. acquires vast tracts of Mexican territory in wake of Mexican War including California and New Mexico.
1846
Tennessee was known as the Volunteer State because during the Mexican War the government asked Tennessee for 3,000 volunteer soldiers and 30,000 joined.
1861 · Simple life to Soldiers
Illinois contributed 250,000 soldiers to the Union Army, ranking it fourth in terms of the total men fighting for a single state. Troops mainly fought in the Western side of the Appalachian Mountains, but a few regiments played important roles in the East side. Several thousand Illinoisians died during the war. No major battles were fought in the state, although several towns became sites for important supply depots and navy yards. Not everyone in the state supported the war and there were calls for secession in Southern Illinois several residents. However, the movement for secession soon died after the proposal was blocked.
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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