When Francis Chase Davis was born on 14 August 1833, in Meigs, Ohio, United States, his father, Eliakim Davis, was 26 and his mother, Mary Ann Gilliland, was 26. He married Celia Gholson on 31 December 1855, in Putnam, Missouri, United States. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 3 daughters. He lived in Harrison Township, Chautauqua, Kansas, United States in 1880 and Osage Township, Lincoln, Oklahoma, United States in 1900. He died on 8 August 1905, in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, Oklahoma Territory, United States, at the age of 71, and was buried in Osage Cemetery, Osage Township, Lincoln, Oklahoma, United States.