Brief Life History of Elisha Hildebrand
When Elisha Hildebrand Davis Jr. was born on 7 February 1850, in Mount Pisgah, Union, Iowa, United States, his father, Elisha Hildebrand Davis Sr, was 34 and his mother, Mary Ann Mitchell, was 27. He married Sarah Ellen Stewart on 30 January 1871, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 6 daughters. He lived in Utah, United States in 1870 and Utah, Utah, United States in 1920. He registered for military service in 1866. He died on 10 December 1937, in Lehi, Utah, Utah, United States, at the age of 87, and was buried in Lehi City Cemetery, Lehi, Utah, Utah, United States.
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- Elisha Hildabrand Davis, "Utah, Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Church Census Records, 1914-1960"
- Elisha Davis, "Ohio, Marriages, 1800-1958"
- Elisha Hildebrand Davis, "Utah Death Certificates, 1904-1956"
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1851
Historical Boundaries: 1851: Union, Iowa, United States
1863
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
1875 · A Treaty with Hawaii
In the Mid 1870s, The United States sought out the Kingdom of Hawaii to make a free trade agreement. The Treaty gave the Hawaiians access to the United States agricultural markets and it gave the United States a part of land which later became Pearl Harbor.
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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Pearl Davis Broomhead, from History of Lehi
Pearl Davis Broomhead, daughter of Elisha H. Davis, Jr., of Lehi, Utah, and Sarah Ellen Stewart of Pleasant Grove, Utah, was born August 8, 1876, in Lehi Utah. Her early years passed in a happy norma …
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