Mary Ann Davis

Brief Life History of Mary Ann

Mary Ann Davis was born in 1785, in Belmont, Ohio, United States. She married Robinson C. Ross on 11 March 1803, in Belmont, Ohio, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 2 daughters. She died in 1855, in Belmont, Goshen Township, Belmont, Ohio, United States, at the age of 70.

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Family Time Line

Robinson C. Ross
1779–1830
Mary Ann Davis
1785–1855
Marriage: 11 March 1803
Henry Ross
1800–1877
William Ross
1808–1850
Elizabeth Ross
1809–1864
Marie Ross
1811–1844

Sources (4)

  • Mary Davis, "Ohio, County Marriages, 1789-2013"
  • Mary Davis, "Ohio, County Marriages, 1789-2013"
  • Mary Davis, "Ohio Marriages, 1800-1958"

World Events (7)

1786 · Shays' Rebellion

Caused by war veteran Daniel Shays, Shays' Rebellion was to protest economic and civil rights injustices that he and other farmers were seeing after the Revolutionary War. Because of the Rebellion it opened the eyes of the governing officials that the Articles of Confederation needed a reform. The Rebellion served as a guardrail when helping reform the United States Constitution.

1803

Ohio was the first state admitted to the Union from the Northwest Territory.

1804

Lewis and Clark set out from St. Louis, MO to explore the West.

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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