William Scott Davis

Brief Life History of William Scott

When William Scott Davis was born on 14 February 1835, in Tennessee, United States, his father, William M. Davis, was 20 and his mother, Charlotta Johnson, was 17. He married Nancy Elizabeth Hatfield in 1866. They were the parents of at least 6 sons and 6 daughters. He lived in Civil District 9, Claiborne, Tennessee, United States in 1880 and Civil District 1, Bledsoe, Tennessee, United States in 1900. He registered for military service in 1891. He died on 18 March 1905, in Bledsoe, Tennessee, United States, at the age of 70, and was buried in Cagle Cemetery, Bledsoe, Tennessee, United States.

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Family Time Line

William Scott Davis
1835–1905
Nancy Elizabeth Hatfield
1848–1924
Marriage: 1866
Sally Mantie Davis
1865–1918
Gilbert Davis
1866–1953
Della Davis
1867–
Minnie Margaret Davis
1869–1953
Rev William Martin or Billy Davis
1875–1956
Mary Avery Lee Davis
1876–1941
James Davis
1876–1937
Cuba Jane Davis
1879–1972
Matt Scott Davis
1885–1966
Robert Lee Davis
1885–1977
Nancy Elizabeth Davis
1896–1962
James Mr. Davis
1898–1935

Sources (14)

  • W S Davis, "United States Census, 1870"
  • William Scott Davis, "Find A Grave Index"
  • Will Davis in entry for James Mr. Davis, "Tennessee Deaths, 1914-1966"

World Events (8)

1836 · Remember the Alamo

Being a monumental event in the Texas Revolution, The Battle of the Alamo was a thirteen-day battle at the Alamo Mission near San Antonio. In the early morning of the final battle, the Mexican Army advanced on the Alamo. Quickly being overrun, the Texian Soldiers quickly withdrew inside the building. The battle has often been overshadowed by events from the Mexican–American War, But the Alamo gradually became known as a national battle site and later named an official Texas State Shrine.

1846

Tennessee was known as the Volunteer State because during the Mexican War the government asked Tennessee for 3,000 volunteer soldiers and 30,000 joined.

1862 · Battle of Shiloh

The battle of Shiloh took place on April 6, 1862 and April 7, 1862. Confederate soldiers camp through the woods next to where the Union soldiers were camped at Pittsburg Landing on the Tennessee River. With 23,000 casualties this was the bloodiest battle of the Civil War up to this point.

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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