Notes for: Catharine Davis
1840 Census, Harrison Co, Virginia (now West Virginia):
Household of Ephraim Bee:
1 free white male, age 30-39
1 free white male, age 10-14
2 free white male, age 5-9
3 free white male, under 5
1 free white female, age 30-39
1 free white female, age 10-14
1 free white female, under 5
1 slave female, age 24-35
1 slave female, under 10
Persons employed in agriculture: 3
Persons employed in manufacture & trade: 1
Total free white persons under 20: 8
Total free white persons 20-49: 2
Total free white persons: 10
Total slaves: 2
Total all persons: 12
NOTE: Nearby households were those of George J. Davis, Elijah Summers and Joseph Jeffrey.
1850 Census, Doddridge Co, Virginia (now West Virginia), enumerated on Aug 23 1850:
Ephraim Bee, 46, b. New Jersey, farmer, value of real estate $43,500; Catharine, 45, b. Va; Amos, 22, tanner; Stinnett, 20, farmer; Wickliff, 18; Ephraim W, 16; Augustin J, 13; Martha S, 10; Leah F. Hansford, 4; Morris Kyner, 30, b. NJ, tanner; Charles Dowd, 23, b. Pa, laborer.
(Note: Leah F. Hansford, whose widowed father had not yet remarried, was the daughter of David W. Hansford and Julia Cooper. In 1860, Leah was enumerated in the household of Nathan J. & Keziah Davis, Keziah being Ephraim's sister-in-law.)
The 1850 Federal Census Slave Schedule for Doddridge County, enumerated on Jul 16 1850, contains the following entry:
Slave owner: Ephraim Bee. Description of slave: Black female, age 45.
The 1840 Census showed that Ephraim Bee had two slaves: One female under 10, and one female 24-35