Brief Life History of Eliza Caroline
When Eliza Caroline Davis was born on 30 May 1870, in Doddridge, West Virginia, United States, her father, Ezra S Franklin Davis, was 23 and her mother, Nancy Snider, was 25. She married William Harris on 22 December 1887, in Doddridge, West Virginia, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 daughters. She lived in Grant District, Doddridge, West Virginia, United States for about 20 years and United States in 1949. She died in 1944, in Doddridge, West Virginia, United States, at the age of 74.
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- Eliza Harris, "United States Census, 1930"
- Legacy NFS Source: Eliza Caroline Davis - Individual or family possessions: birth-name: Eliza Caroline Davis
- Eliza C. Davis, "West Virginia Marriages, 1780-1970"
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1872 · The Amnesty Act
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1890 · The Sherman Antitrust Act
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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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