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Davis is a surname of Welsh origin. It may be a corruption of Dyfed.Dyfed is recorded as a surname as late as the twelfth century, e.g. Gwynfard Dyfed, born 1175. Dafydd (generally translated into English as David) appears as a given name in the thirteenth century, e.g. Dafydd ap Gruffydd (1238–1283), Prince of Wales, and Dafydd ab Edmwnd (fl. c. 1450–1497), a Welsh poet.
Davis was born Eliza Jane Van Benthuysen on January 23, 1811, to Benjamin Van Benthuysen and Catherine Freeman Van Benthuysen, both Dutch Americans from New York. [1] [2] Her widowed mother owned a shoe and boot store and later ran a boarding house in New Orleans. [3] [4] Hurricane Plantation, the Davis family home
In 2014 there were nearly 13,000 people in attendance. As of 2020, it is the world's largest family history and technology conference in the world. [31] It is the successor to three former conferences: the Conference on Computerized Family History and Genealogy, the Family History Technology Workshop [32] and the FamilySearch Developers ...
Harriet Tubman, Nelson Davis, and behind them Gertie Davis, circa 1887, at her home in Auburn, New York. Tubman established herself in Auburn, New York on land that she bought from William H. Seward in early 1859, and the house was a haven for family and friends. [10]
The Davis family is an Irish American and British American family, prominent in American politics and government. Their political involvement has revolved around the Whig Party, the Federalist Party, and the Republican Party. Harvard and Yale educations have been frequent among them, and most had gone further on to law school.
The FamilySearch Research Wiki (formerly also known as the FamilySearch Wiki or the Family History Research Wiki) is a website containing reference information and educational articles to help locate and interpret genealogical records. [1] [2] The wiki is part of the FamilySearch website and was launched in 2007.
Wedding photograph of Jefferson Davis and Varina Howell, 1845. Jefferson Davis was a 35-year-old widower when he and Varina met. His first wife, Sarah Knox Taylor, daughter of his commanding officer Zachary Taylor while he was in the Army, had died of malaria three months after their wedding in 1835.
Davis was born in a rural hamlet known as Skinhead near Athens, Alabama, on Aug. 15, 1890, to Richard Scoggins Davis and the former Mildred Elizabeth Barker.In a family genealogy written several years before his death, Davis recalled Skinhead as the place where his "depleted family settled after being blasted out of McMinn County, Tennessee, by the hell of the Civil War."