Notes for: Joseph Davis

The following passage, including the note, is quoted from "Davis - The Settlers of Salem, WV," p. 21, under the family of Joseph Davis (b. 1770):

From Hardesty's, Doddridge Co. (1883 ed.), "The most destructive storm that ever visited this section of the state occurred on the third day of June 1833.... The Baptist Church, a heavy hewed log building at West Union,and the first ever erected within the present limits of the county, was razed to the ground. Near it stood the residence of Joseph Davis, one of the first settlers, it was blown down and he was killed...."
(Note: Without question this reference is to the Seventh Day Baptist Church which was a branch of the Salem Church and later became the Middle Island Seventh Day Baptist Church. We believe the point that Joseph Davis was killed to be in error, in that he signed a deed in Doddridge Co., 1848. Descendants of William Davis, #127 [son of Joseph's brother Nathan Davis & Jane Sutton, who married Sophia Cheney], who still have the old family Bible in their possession, claim that William was killed in such a storm about 1837, also a young daughter was killed in the same storm.