Husband: Claude Duval Davis
Also known as: Claud D. Davis 1,2,3,4
Born: Mar- 6-1873 in Doddridge Co, WV 5
Died: Oct-25-1949 near Industrial, Doddridge Co, WV 5
Buried: in IOOF Cemetery, Salem, Harrison Co, WV 5,6
Resided: near Industrial, Doddridge Co, WV 5
Father: Elijah Davis (1842 - 1918)
Mother: Nancy Ellen Moran (1845 - 1940)
Wife: Ruhama Bird Starkey Also known as: Bird Starkey 2 Married: Apr-18-1893 in Doddridge Co, WV 1
Born: Oct-19-1868 in Harrison Co, WV 7,1 Died: Nov-23-1942 7 Buried: in IOOF Cemetery, Salem, Harrison Co, WV 6 Resided: 1893 in Doddridge Co, WV 1 Father: Jesse Washington Starkey (1825 - ) Mother: Margaret Jane Hyde (1829 - 1908) Notes
F Child 1: Leatha Davis Born: Mar-10-1894 7 Died: ca Sep 1894 7
M Child 2: Dalen Davis Born: May-13-1895 7,8,9 Died: Aug-29-1969 10,8,9 Resided: in Salem, WV 11 Census: 1930 in Salem, WV Census: 1920 in Grant District, Doddridge Co, WV Occupation: 1930 tool dresser (oil industry) 12 Occupation: 1920 carpenter (rig building) 4 Wife: Beulah Mary Carder b. Feb- 1-1895 d. Nov-17-1963 Married: ca 1914 12 Wife: Flossie Alice Yeater b. Jun-27-1904 d. Aug-28-1998
F Child 3: Honna Davis Birth name: Anna Davis Born: Jun-15-1898 in Doddridge Co, WV 13 Died: ca 1913 14 Census: 1900, 1910 in Greenbrier District, Doddridge Co, WV
? Child 4: Garland Davis Died: in infancy 7
F Child 5: Mava Davis Census name: Mavey Born: Nov-24-1904 5 Died: Dec-27-1969 in Clarksburg, Harrison Co, WV 5 Buried: in Mt. Olive Baptist Cemetery, Patterson Rd, Salem (Doddridge Co), WV 5,15 Resided: in Salem, WV 5 Census: 1920, 1930, 1940 in Grant District, Doddridge Co, WV Husband: Arthur Pratt b. Nov-21-1896 d. Aug- 7-1958 Married: Jul- 3-1919 in Doddridge Co, WV 1
Sources: (1) Doddridge County WV Marriages 1845-1937, Wes Cochran, 156 Gihon Meadows, Apt 150, Parkersburg, WV 26101 (Jan 1993) (2) Death record of daughter. (3) 1910 Census, Doddridge County, WV (Greenbrier District) (4) 1920 Census, Doddridge County, WV (Grant District). (5) WV State Dept of Health, Div of Vital Statistics, Death Certificate (http://www.wvculture.org/vrr/va_dcsearch.aspx) (6) Cemeteries of Tenmile District, Harrison County, WV, Harrison County Genealogical Society, Clarksburg, WV (1989, revised 1995) (7) Susie Davis Nicholson, Davis - The Settlers of Salem, West Virginia, Gordon Printing Co, Strasburg OH, 1979 (Revised & Enlarged) < www.wvgenweb.org/harrison/books.htm >, p. 187. (8) Social Security Death Index. (9) Headstone. (10) Susie Davis Nicholson, Davis - The Settlers of Salem, West Virginia, Gordon Printing Co, Strasburg OH, 1979 (Revised & Enlarged) < www.wvgenweb.org/harrison/books.htm >, p. 211. (11) Social Security Death Index, Social Security card issued in West Virginia before 1951. (12) 1930 Census, Harrison County, WV. (13) Doddridge County Birth Records, West Union, WV, Identified as Anna Davis, white female, born Jun 15 1898 in Doddridge Co, dau of Clared (sic) & Byrd (sic) Davis. Informant: Byrd Davis. (Note: Based on the birth date and similarity of names, this must be the Honna Davis, born Jun 1898, listed as a daughter in the household of Claud D. Davis & Ruhama Bird Starkey Davis in the 1900 Census of Doddridge County. This birth record is a typed transcription of the original handwritten birth ledger.), BR p. 50. (14) Susie Davis Nicholson, Davis - The Settlers of Salem, West Virginia, Gordon Printing Co, Strasburg OH, 1979 (Revised & Enlarged) < www.wvgenweb.org/harrison/books.htm >, The author provides no birth or dates, stating only that the child died at age 15. With establishment of the June 1898 birth date through census and birth records, the conclusion is that the child died in about 1913. We have found no death record for her under any variation of her name. p. 187. (15) Donald Edward Ramage, Doddridge County Cemeteries, Vol. II, 4117 Almaville Rd, Smyna TN 37167 (1988, rev. 1999)