Jul-28-2018
Husband: Andrew Davison
Born: ca 1730 in Tennent, Monmouth Co, NJ 1
Occupation: Farmer 2
Father: William Davison, Jr. (1695 - 1762)
Mother: Anne Brinson
Notes 3
Wife: Sarah Smith
Born: ca 1740 in New Jersey 4
Died: aft 1810 in Harrison Co, WV 4,1
Buried: in Harrison Co, WV 1
Father: John Smith (1699 - 1748)
Mother: Hannah Waters
M Child 1: William Davison
Born: ca 1760 in Tennent, Monmouth Co, NJ 1
Died: ca 1801
Wife: Mary Maple
F Child 2: Anna Davisson
Born: Feb-20-1765 in Tennent, Monmouth Co, NJ 5,1
Died: Aug- 8-1854 in Duck Creek (West Milford), Harrison Co, WV 6
Buried: in Sinclair Cemetery, Upper Duck Crk Rd, Harrison Co, WV 7 (see note 1)
Husband: John Gaston, Jr. b. Sep-16-1752 d. Apr- 6-1829
Married: 1785 (see note 2)
F Child 3: Elizabeth Davison
Born: Oct- 8-1769 in Tennent, Monmouth Co, NJ 8,9,10,11 (see note 3)
Died: Jul-26-1839 in Harrison Co, (W)VA 8,12,1,7
Buried: in Broad Run Baptist Church Cemetery, Jane Lew, Lewis Co, WV 7,13
Husband: Watters Smith b. Jul-15-1767 d. Mar-23-1849
Also known as: Walter or Wattes Smith 14
Married: ca 1793 15
M Child 4: Thomas Davison
Born: ca 1772 in Tennent, Monmouth Co, NJ 1
Resided: 1790 in Springhill Twp, Fayette Co, PA 16
Resided: 1801 in New Geneva, Fayette Co, PA 16
M Child 5: George Davison
Born: 1780 in Tennent, Monmouth Co, NJ 16
Died: Dec-11-1856 in Butler Co, OH 16,17
Buried: Clawson Cemetery in Princeton, Butler Co, OH 17
Resided: 1820 in Harrison Co, (W)VA 16
Wife: Elizabeth "Betsy" Pangburn b. Dec- 1-1787 d. Mar- 7-1850
Married: in Ohio 18
Sources:
(1) G. J. Whittaker, a Gaston descendant and researcher.
(2) Per notes of Dorothy Ruth Davisson, Lost Creek, WV, per Jeff Whittaker.
(3) William F. Donnelly, The Wests of Duck Creek, Harrison County, Virginia (now West Virginia), Gateway Press, Baltimore
MD, 1997, p. 13.
(4) Linn Baiker, Virginia Beach, VA .
(5) Death Record - Birth date calculated from age at death.
(6) Harrison County Death Records, Clarksburg, WV, Identified as Anna Gaston, born in New Jersey, dau of Andrew & Sarah
Davison (spelled this way in original handwritten record, but Dawson in a handwritten transcribed copy), wife of John
Gaston, died Aug 8 1854, age 89y 5m 19d. (Age is at variance with headstone inscription, which states death date Aug 8
1854, age 89y 5m 17d.) Informant: William Gaston, son.
(7) Headstone.
(8) Russell Lee Davisson, The Davissons - A History and Genealogy, McClain Printing Co, Parsons, WV (1993), p. 3.
(9) E. Murray Taylor, Jr. (1921-2011), Ancestral Record of John Gaston and Anna Davison (self-published). Watters Smith
addendum.
(10) G. J. Whittaker, a Gaston descendant and researcher, Birthdate reported as Oct 8 1770.
(11) Headstone, Inscription does not give a birthdate, but reads that she died on July 26 1839 "Aged 69y 9m 18d." This would
put her birth at Oct 8 1769.
(12) E. Murray Taylor, Jr. (1921-2011), Ancestral Record of John Gaston and Anna Davison (self-published)
(13) Bernard L. Butcher, Genealogical & Personal History of Upper Monongahela Valley WV (1912, reprinted 1978 by
Genealogical Publishing Co, Baltimore, MD), p. 1133.
(14) Bernard L. Butcher, Genealogical & Personal History of Upper Monongahela Valley WV (1912, reprinted 1978 by
Genealogical Publishing Co, Baltimore, MD), p. 1136.
(15) Bernard L. Butcher, Genealogical & Personal History of Upper Monongahela Valley WV (1912, reprinted 1978 by
Genealogical Publishing Co, Baltimore, MD), p. 1135.
(16) William F. Donnelly, The Wests of Duck Creek, Harrison County, Virginia (now West Virginia), Gateway Press, Baltimore
MD, 1997, p. 404.
(17) Findagrave.com.
(18) U.S. and International Marriage Records, 1560-1900, Ancestry.com.
Event Notes
Note (1) Headstone reads: Anna, wife of John Gaston Sr., died Aug 8 1854, aged 89y 5m
17d.
Note (2) probably Monmouth Co, NJ
Note (3) William F. Donnelly, in "The Wests of Duck Creek," p. 404, gives Elizabeth
Davison's birthdate as Oct 8 1770, as does researcher Jeff Whittaker. Also,
researcher Linn Baiker has birthdate as Oct 8 1768, citing several sources
including notes of previous researchers in her immediate family. But headstone
inscription states that she died on July 26 1839 at age 69y 9m 18d, which would
put her birthdate at Oct 8 1769.
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