Brief Life History of Mary Lucretia
When Mary Lucretia Davis was born from 1855 to 1856, in Arkansas, United States, her father, Lysander Davis, was 28 and her mother, Mary Jane Sherman, was 23. She had at least 3 sons and 3 daughters with James Fitzgibbon. She lived in Ouachita Township, Bradley, Arkansas, United States in 1860 and Gainsboro, Independence, Arkansas, United States in 1880. She died on 27 June 1898, in Datto, Clay, Arkansas, United States, and was buried in Garrison Cemetery, Bradley, Arkansas, United States.
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- Mary A Davis in household of Sarah A Davis, "United States Census, 1860"
- Fannie L Davis Fitzgibbon, "Find A Grave Index"
- Mary Davis in entry for John Fitzgibbon, "Kentucky Death Records, 1911-1955"
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1861
Arkansas supplied an estimated 50,000 men to the Confederate Army andabout 15,000 to the Union Army.
1863
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
1867 · Sorry Mr. President, You can't do that.
This Act was to restrict the power of the President removing certain office holders without approval of the Senate. It denies the President the power to remove any executive officer who had been appointed by the president with the advice and consent of the Senate, unless the Senate approved the removal during the next full session of Congress. The Amendment was later repealed.
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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