Jul-28-2018                   
             Husband: Michael William Slaght    
                Born: 1829                 in Canada  1,2,3
                Died: 1894                  1
              Buried:                      in Woodland Cemetery, Des Moines, Polk Co, IA  4
              Census: 1880                 in Shellsburg, Benton Co, IA  
              Census: 1860                 in Oregon, Ogle Co, IL  
          Occupation:                      farmer  2
              Father:
              Mother:
                Wife: Helen Mary Davis   5  
         Census name: Ellen M. 
             Married: Oct-10-1855          in Ogle Co, IL  6
                Born: Jan-10-1833          in West Union, Doddridge Co, (W)VA  5,1
                Died: 1899                  1
              Buried:                      in Woodland Cemetery, Des Moines, Polk Co, IA  4
             Resided:                      in Shellsburg, Benton Co, IA  5
              Census: 1880                 in Shellsburg, Benton Co, IA  
              Census: 1860                 in Oregon, Ogle Co, IL  
              Census: 1850                 in Marshall Co, (W)VA  
              Father: William Sutton Davis   (     - 1837) 
              Mother: Sophia Chaney   (1810 - 1886) 

Sources:
(1) Headstone (year only) 
(2) 1860 Census. 
(3) 1880 Census. 
(4) Findagrave.com. 
(5) Susie Davis Nicholson, Davis - The Settlers of Salem, West Virginia, Gordon Printing Co, Strasburg OH, 1979 (Revised & 
Enlarged) < www.wvgenweb.org/harrison/books.htm >. 
(6) Illinois Marriages, 1851-1900 [database on-line], Ancestry.com. 







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