This week I spent a few days working on my mother's family, the Davises of Moore Co, NC. I've learned so much over the last year on HOW to use the tools at Ancestry.com and then dove-tail from there into Findagrave.com and Fold3.com and other ancillary sites.
This go around I have found Last Wills & Testaments for two of my Davis ancestors. Both were named William Coleman Davis (father and son), and both died in Moore Co, NC around Carthage and Ritter.
William Sr's Will helped me nail down the names of all 7 of his children, something I had not been able to do previously.
William Jr's Will helped me learn that he lived longer than I previously realized. And I was able to find that he married a second time, and that his middle initial was also "C", something I did not know previously.
I was also able to fill in so many generations of descendants coming forward in time for the descendants of William Coleman Davis Sr.
I descend from the following Davises:
- Robert Davis (1744-1828) m. Nancy Cheek
- William Coleman Davis Sr (ca. 1793-1870/80) m. Phoebe Phillips (not Bannerman!)
- William C. Davis Jr (ca. 1820/2-1904/5) m. Clarkey Hilliard
- John (Wesley) Davis (1844-ca. 1911) m. Ruth Ann Barber
- Troy Lee Davis (1909-1988) m. Lettie Mae Langley
- Vanza Davis Patterson (1939-2018) m. Francis Oliver Patterson
- Wes Patterson m. Ginna Fishburne