Dru Carter –Author of these corrections

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Children:

1. Ann Eliza Davis, b. 15 Aug 1842 - d. 3 May 1881 (p. 32).

2. Susan Frances Davis, b. 11 Oct 1845 - d. 29 Nov 1874 (p. 32).

3. Bertha Ezra Davis, b. 7 Sep 1847 - d. 6 Jly 1936 (p. 32).

4.Annah Stacia Davis, b. 21 Dec 1848 - d. 2 May 1897 (p. 32).

5. Silas A. Davis, b. 1850; d. 6 Aug 1875, in California.

6. Thomas Edmond Davis, b. 15 Apr 1852 - d. 4 Nov 1912 (p. 33).

7. Emmaline Alice Davis b. 16 May 1854 (p. 33).

10. Eva Davis, b. 1 Feb 1859 - d. 1 Feb 1939 (p. 33).

11. Bartlett A. Davis b. 4 Mar 1861 - d. 24 Feb 1863. Buried Davis Cemetery.

12. Franklin Lewis Davis, b.12 Dec 1862 - d. 16 Sep 1949

13. Demetrius Evermont Davis, b.13 Jan 1865 - d. 7 Nov 1865 after finding and consuming a bottle of laudanum. Buried Davis Cemetery.-

Annie E. Davis (above) married about 1876, James Tucker, widower of her sister, Susan. They lived in Lincoln County, Mo. (They were in Montgomery Co census in 1880 -see J.H. Tucker- Susan's son Villett was listed with them and also with his grandparents in Foristell, so he must have gone to live with his grandparents in 1880). Ann Eliza died 1881.

Children:

2. Zola Tucker, b. 9 Sep 1879 - d. 16 Feb 1982 - age 102; grad. Wm. Woods College; m. Thomas Percival Carr, an attorney with Carr & Carr. They lived & died in St. Louis, Mo.; two daughters: Eleanor b. 3 Mar 1903 - 29 Jan 1999; Miriam b. 16 Feb 1912 - d. 3 Dec 1966. Both have living descendents.

Susan Frances Davis (p. 31) married about 1869, James Tucker. In 1873 they moved to California, where she died the following year. Mr. Tucker, with his children afterwards returned to Missouri.

Children:

1. Wallace M. Tucker, b. 1870; a locomotive engineer on the Wabash R. R., resides in Moberly, Mo. Married Lizzie _.

2. De Ester ("Dee") Tucker, b. March 24, 1871; md. Nancy __ lives in St. Charles, Mo.

3. Villett ("Vedie") Tucker, b. about 1873; living at last account in California.

Bertha E. Davis Q. 31) married about 1867, John Warren Linthicum; lived in Lincoln County, Mo. Moved to Miller, MO (Lawrence Co). Bertha died 1936 in Springfield, MO, buried Sycamore Cem. Miller, MO.

Children:

1. Infant son, b. 1869; d. in infancy.

2. Florence E. Linthicum, b. Sept. 19, 1872; m. Fred Duewell; lived in Truxton, Mo.; d. in 1904.

Children:

(1). Homer Cecil Duewel, b. 8 Sep 1901 - married, lived most of his life in California, had a son and a daughter d.Sep 1974 in MO. (2). Franklyn Ward Duewel, b. 28 Mar 1903 md. Jessie __, lived in Long Beach, CA; had one daughter. Ward died 14 Dec 1988. As noted above, Homer & Ward were raised by their cousin Fannie who married their father after his wife died.

Annah Stacia Davis (p. 31) married Dec. 31, 1869, Andrew Glaswell Linthicum. They lived in Lincoln County, Mo. She died May 2, 1897; Mr. Linthicum, Dec. 10, 1903.

Children:

1. Oliver Ellsworth Linthicum, b. Sept. 24, 1871; m. July 13, 1902, Mollie Drake; they live near Truxton, Mo.

Children:

(1). Leota Bertabella Linthicum, b. Nov. 1, 1903. (2). George Gerald Linthicum, b. Jan. 31, 1906.

2. Edith ("Birdie") Linthicum, b. Dec. 10, 1874; m. Jan. 16, 1902, Durward C. King.

Children:

(1). Ola Durward King, b. Oct. 27, 1903.

3. Beatrice Gertrude Linthicum, b. Jan. 11, 1876; d. March 22, 1876.

4. Leota Linthicum, b. Sept. 30, 1878; m. Nov. 13, 1901, Clifton Williams, who died She m. (2) Chas. Heepe.

Children:

(1). Geraldine Clifton Williams, b. July 3, 1905. None by second marriage.

5. Clowdesley Mornington Linthicum, h. Nov. 8, 1882; m. Feb. 28, 1910, Pearl Allen: d. May 15, 1913; no children.

Thomas Davis (p. 32) married about 1880, Sallie Stewart. He lived in Moberly, MO for a time and later conducted a store in Truxton, MO with brother, Poletus. He moved to Mesilla Park, N. Mex. where he died in 1912. They had one child, Nina Davis, who lives at Mesilla Park, N. Mex.There are descendents.

Emmaline Alice Davis (p. 32) married in 1886, James Simmons. They live on the old Davis place near Foristell, Mo. No children, but Alice helped her parents raise five of the six children left orphans by her two oldest sisters. Alice and Jim buried New Florence MO cemetery.

Poletus A. Davis (p. 32) grad. Warren College, Warrenton, MO. & taught school for a number of years, part of the time in Femme Osage, MO in a German community where most of his pupils didn't speak English. This school is now a museum. He married April 21, 1897, Anna Janssen, who was born Oct. 14, 1866 & d. 11 Oct 1952. For a number of years he conducted a general store at Truxton, Mo. Part of this time his brother, Tom, was in business with him. Around 1902 he sold his interest in the store and moved to New Florence, MO where he operated another store, and purchased a farm near Danville, Mo. (this was an investment; they never lived on this farm - his dau. inherited it and kept it until 1965). Around 1905 they moved to Miller, MO where he conducted another store with bro. Frank and Fred Duewel, husband of his niece. Around 1910 he returned to New Florence where he helped organize the New Florence Farmer's Bank and served as cashier until he retired due to ill health and died of cancer in St. Louis in 1927. Poletus & Anna buried New Florence Cem. New Florence, MO.

Eva Davis (p. 32) married about 1880, Scott Stewart. They moved to Mesilla Park, N. Mex., where he died in 1921.

Children:

1. Herbert Stewart.

2. Rupert Stewart.

3. Alice Stewart.

From Gruenloh's Settlement Geography in St. Charles County (St. Charles Library HR 977.839 p.36)

Foristell: In 1857, upon property owned by JA Davis, the town of Foristel was laid out. At different times in it's history it was called Snow Hill & Millville. Foristell is a railroad settlement, located on the Wabash Route, 26 miles west of St. Charles.

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From Obituary of Alice Davis Simons (1942): "Old timers recall the old Davis house as one of the early landmarks of St. Charles Co., built many years before the construction through the farm of the old North Missouri Railroad, now the Wabash. The station at Foristell is located on a part of the land which was entered and acquired by Mrs. Simons' father, Joel Addison Davis, from the United States government about the year 1840. The site of the Christian Church at Foristell was also part of the original farm and was donated to the church by her father familiarly known as 'Uncle Addison.'

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They were members of the Christian Church, Disciples of Christ - now part of United Church of Christ

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I have a very dim picture of the house, a large clapboard farmhouse. In the picture in front of the house are Frances Ann Guthrie Davis & husband Joel Addison, dau. Alice Davis Simons & husband Jim, grand-daughters Aurelia and Zola Tucker and a boy thought to be Vedie Tucker. Picture appears to have been taken around 1888. By my time more than half of the house had been torn down, and little by little the land had been sold until only a few acres plus what remained of the house and outbuildings was taken by the interstate highway dept. for the construction of an overpass about 1964.

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