Brief Life History of Mitelene
When Mitelene Davis was born on 3 September 1855, in Belleview, Jackson, Oregon, United States, her father, Jefferson Davis, was 28 and her mother, Sarah Catherine Robinson, was 26. She married Saxton C. Williams on 21 September 1873, in Yamhill, Oregon, United States. She lived in South Fork, Grant, Oregon, United States in 1860 and Oregon, United States in 1870. She died on 14 July 1876, at the age of 20, and was buried in Deer Creek Cemetery, McMinnville, Yamhill, Oregon, United States.
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- Mitilene Davis in household of Jefferson Davis, "United States Census, 1860"
- Legacy NFS Source: Mitelene (Mittie) Davis - Government record: Census record: birth-name: Mitelene (Mittie) Davis
- Mattie M Davis, "Oregon, County Marriages, 1851-1975"
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1858
Oldest Memorial - David Tharp
1859 · Oregon Becomes a State
Oregon became the 33rd state admitted to the Union on February 14, 1859.
1863
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
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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