Doddridge County Roots

A West Virginia Genealogy

Bell Jane DAVIS

Bell Jane DAVIS

Male 1844 - 1881  (37 years)

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  • Name Bell Jane DAVIS 
    Born 15 May 1844  Doddridge Co, (W)VA Find all individuals with events at this location  [1, 2
    Gender Male 
    Census 1850, 1860  Doddridge Co, (W)VA Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Died 3 Jun 1881  Columbia Co, WA Find all individuals with events at this location  [3
    Person ID I97244  Doddridge County Roots
    Last Modified 16 Jan 2015 

    Father Lewis Sutton DAVIS,   b. 5 Feb 1811, Harrison Co, (W)VA Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 26 Mar 1883, Knoxville, Marion Co, IA Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 72 years) 
    Mother Elizabeth SHANNON,   b. 17 Mar 1822,   d. 21 Nov 1857  (Age 35 years) 
    Family ID F20311  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family Albert Sanford TOOPS,   b. 28 Jul 1836, Ross Co, OH Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 18 Dec 1916, Clarkston, Asotin Co, WA Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 80 years) 
    Married 18 Sep 1864  Doddridge Co, WV Find all individuals with events at this location  [4
    Notes 
    • Following their 1864 marriage in Doddridge County, Albert Toops and Bell Jane Davis "first made their home at Waverly, Pike Co., Ohio. Early in 1869 they moved to Athens, OH, and in the spring of 1878 they went by train to San Francisco, by boat to Astoria, Oregon, and up the Columbia River to Wallula, and thence by narrow gauge railroad to Walla Walla, and by wagons to Asotin County, Washington Territory, arriving at their new home on the Anatone Flat in May 1878." [4]
    Family ID F7694  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  • Sources 
    1. [S83] Davis - The Settlers of Salem, West Virginia, Susie Davis Nicholson, (Gordon Printing Co, Strasburg OH, 1979 (Revised & Enlarged) < www.wvgenweb.org/harrison/books.htm >), p. 56.

    2. [S941] 1850 Census, Doddridge County, (W)VA.

    3. [S83] Davis - The Settlers of Salem, West Virginia, Susie Davis Nicholson, (Gordon Printing Co, Strasburg OH, 1979 (Revised & Enlarged) < www.wvgenweb.org/harrison/books.htm >), p. 108.

    4. [S83] Davis - The Settlers of Salem, West Virginia, Susie Davis Nicholson, (Gordon Printing Co, Strasburg OH, 1979 (Revised & Enlarged) < www.wvgenweb.org/harrison/books.htm >).