Brief Life History of Thomas A
When Thomas A Davis was born on 10 June 1849, in Llanwenog, Cardiganshire, Wales, his father, Titus Lazarus Davis, was 42 and his mother, Mary Gwenllian Bowen, was 30. He married Margaret Ellen Davis on 10 April 1871, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 7 daughters. He lived in Llandewi-Aberarth, Cardiganshire, Wales, United Kingdom in 1871 and Promontory, Box Elder, Utah, United States in 1880. He died on 21 April 1926, in Malad, Oneida, Idaho, United States, at the age of 76, and was buried in Malad, Oneida, Idaho, United States.
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- Thomas Davis, "United States Census, 1880"
- Thomas A. Davis, Death Certificate. Death Date: April 21, 1926
- Thos A Davis in entry for Mary Eliz Lovett, "Utah, Salt Lake County Death Records, 1849-1949"
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World Events (8)
1850 · Coal Fields in South Wales Developed
Like the iron and copper mines, the coal fields in South Wales were very important to the industrial revolution. Many of those that worked in the coal mines were part of the Merthyr uprising.
1864
Historical Boundaries 1864: Owyee, Idaho Territory, United States 1864: Oneida, Idaho Territory, United States 1890: Oneida, Idaho, United States
1870 · The Fifteenth Amendment
Prohibits the federal government and each state from denying a citizen the right to vote based on that citizen's race, color, or previous condition of servitude. It was the last of the Reconstruction Amendments.
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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Biography of Titus Lazarus Davis & Mary Gwenllian Bowen, by their son Thomas A. Davis from Welsh Mormon History, Center for Family History and Genealogy, BYU
Davis, Thomas A. - Autobiography TITUS DAVIS by his son Thomas Davis Life History of Titus Davis and Mary Gwenllian Bowen. Written by Their Sixth Child, Thomas Ap. Davis Before his Death 21 April, 192 …
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