M. S. (Unknown) Davis
Husband
Born: Died: Buried:Married:
Wife M. S. (Unknown) Davis 104
Born: Died: Buried:
Children
1 M John S. Davis
Born: Abt 1857 - Powhatton County, Virginia Died: Buried:Spouse: Mary M. Davis (Abt 1853- ) Marr: 1 Dec 1875 - Putnam County, West Virginia 104
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Madison T. Davis & Julia Prescott Staunton
Husband Madison T. Davis 1582
Born: Died: Buried:Married: Bef 1908
Wife Julia Prescott Staunton 1014
Born: Aug 1879 - West Virginia 27 Died: Buried:
Father: Sidney Solon Staunton (1846- ) Mother: Mary Lucinda Staunton (1853- ) 1014
Noted events in her life were:
• Occupation, 1900 - Teacher
• Census, 1880 - Kanawha Co, WV Chas. Dist. #2, Pg15
• Census, 1900 - Kanawha Co, WV Elk Dist. (Ed-49) #104-105
Children
1 M Sidney Prescott Davis 1582
Born: Bef 1910 41 Died: Buried:
2 F Madison Trenton Davis 1582
Born: Bef 1911 41 Died: Buried:
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Henry Jackson & Mahala Davis
Husband Henry Jackson
Born: Abt 1873 - Virginia 2 Died: Buried:Married: 18 Sep 1894 - St. Albans, Kanawha County, West Virginia 2
Wife Mahala Davis
Born: Abt 1872 - Virginia 2 Died: Buried:
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Robert Alva Jones & Marcenia Davis
Husband Robert Alva Jones
Born: Jun 1882 - Kanawha County, West Virginia 1 Died: 21 Oct 1936 - Kanawha County, West Virginia Buried:
Father: George Mcdonald Jones (1854-1935) Mother: Martha F. Monroe (1857- )
Married: Abt 1903 60
Noted events in his life were:
• Occupation, 1900 - Farm Laborer
• Occupation, 1910 - Farmer
• Census, 1900 - Kanawha Co, WV Poca Dist. (Ed-58) #4-4
• Census, 1910 - Kanawha Co, WV Poca Dist. (Ed-89) #2-2
Wife Marcenia Davis
Born: Dec 1882 - West Virginia 1,60 Died: Buried:
Noted events in her life were:
• Occupation, 1900 - Servant
• Census, 1900 - Kanawha Co, WV Poca Dist. (Ed-58) #91-92
• Census, 1910 - Kanawha Co, WV Poca Dist. (Ed-89) #2-2
Children
1 M George Jonas Jones
Born: Abt 1904 - Kanawha County, West Virginia 91 Died: Buried:
2 F Martha T. Jones
Born: Abt 1906 - Kanawha County, West Virginia 91 Died: Buried:
3 M Lovell H. Jones
Born: Abt May 1910 - Kanawha County, West Virginia 91 Died: Buried:
Wife's General Notes
Per the 1910 Kanawha Co, WV census: she had given birth to 3 children, of whom 3 were still alive.
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Edward Evans & Marian Davis
Husband Edward Evans
Born: Abt 1837 - Wales 17 Died: Bef 1911 - Kanawha County, West Virginia 668 Buried:Married: - Pennsylvania?
Noted events in his life were:
• Census, 1860 - Kanawha Co, VA #2296
• Census, 1880 - Kanawha Co, WV Cab. Ck. Dist. Pg9
Wife Marian Davis 668
Born: Abt 1838 - Pennsylvania 17 Died: Buried:
Father: David J. Davis (1808-1888) Mother: Margaret Jeffrus (1808-1892) 669
Noted events in her life were:
• Census, 1860 - Kanawha Co, VA #2296 "Maria"
• Census, 1880 - Kanawha Co, WV Cab. Ck. Dist. Pg9
Children
1 F Margaret Evans
Born: Abt 1858 - Pennsylvania 17 Died: Buried:
2 M David Evans
Born: Abt 1861 - Illinois 27 Died: Buried:
3 F Anna Evans
Born: Abt 1863 - West Virginia 27 Died: Buried:
4 M George Evans
Born: Abt 1865 - Illinois 27 Died: Buried:
5 M Richard Evans
Born: Abt 1867 - West Virginia 27 Died: Buried:
6 M Edward Evans
Born: Abt 1871 - Tennessee 27 Died: Buried:
7 M Willie Evans
Born: Abt 1873 - West Virginia 27 Died: Buried:
8 F Bertha Evans
Born: Abt 1877 - West Virginia 27 Died: Buried:
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Richard Thomas Selby & Marind Lurinda Davis
Husband Richard Thomas Selby
Born: 21 May 1826 - Kanawha County, Virginia 152 Died: 23 Jun 1897 - Adair County, Missouri 152 Buried:
Father: John Selby (Abt 1777-After 1860) Mother: Sarah Gibbons (Abt 1782-Bef 1860) 958
Married: 22 Mar 1849 - Kanawha County, Virginia 1966
Noted events in his life were:
• Census, 1850 - Kanawha Co, VA #237-240
• Census, 1860 - Kanawha Co, VA #1616
Wife Marind Lurinda Davis
Born: 8 Aug 1833 - Kanawha County, Virginia 152 Died: 9 Aug 1907 - Montgomery County, Kansas 152 Buried:
Father: (Unknown) Davis ( - ) Mother:
Noted events in her life were:
• Census, 1850 - Kanawha Co, VA #237-240
• Census, 1860 - Kanawha Co, VA #1616
Children
1 F Octavia Selby
Born: Abt Apr 1850 - Kanawha County, Virginia 5 Died: 19 Oct 1853 - Kanawha County, Virginia 30 Buried:
2 M Robert Selby
Born: 18 Mar 1853 - Kanawha County, Virginia 31 Died: Buried:
3 M Thomas Selby
Born: 7 Feb 1855 - Kanawha County, Virginia 6 Died: Buried:
4 M Timothy G. Selby
Born: 21 Dec 1855 - Kanawha County, Virginia 31 Died: Buried:
5 F Baby Selby
Born: 11 Nov 1856 - Rush Creek, Kanawha County, Virginia 30 Died: 18 Nov 1856 - Rush Creek, Kanawha County, Virginia 30 Buried:
6 M James L. Selby
Born: Jun 1857 - Rush City, Kanawha County, Virginia Died: 11 Jan 1945 - Orange, California Buried: 13 Jan 1945 - Westminster Memorial Park, Westminster, CA
7 F Alice Selby
Born: 17 Jan 1860 - Kanawha County, Virginia 6 Died: Buried:
Husband's General Notes
Per annotations to the 1850 Kanawha Co. Census, there were 13 children born to this family, the first 5 in (W)VA, the last 8 in Ohio. This family moved to Ohio between May 1862 and Jan. 1864, then to Kansas after 1876.
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Louis Delaney Ellison & Martha E. Davis
Husband Louis Delaney Ellison
Born: 9 May 1847 - Virginia 1978 Died: 21 Dec 1912 - Peytona, Boone County, West Virginia 1978 Buried:
Father: Samuel Ellison (1820- ) Mother: Sarah Miller (1819- )
Married: 17 Jan 1894 - Boone County, West Virginia 13
Other Spouse: Martha Jane Dolin (1853-1886) - 30 Mar 1870 - Boone County, West Virginia 1978
Other Spouse: Sarah Wallen ( - ) 10 - 16 Apr 1887 - Boone County, West Virginia 13
Noted events in his life were:
• Census, 1850 - Kanawha Co, VA #1349-1371
• Census, 1870 - Boone Co, WV Scott Dist. #99
• Census, 1870 - Boone Co, WV Scott Dist. Pg7
Wife Martha E. Davis 10
Born: Died: Buried:
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Abraham Vandall & Mary Davis
Husband Abraham Vandall 1437
Born: Abt 1760 Died: Buried:Married: - Not On Cd #229
Wife Mary Davis 1437
Born: Died: Buried:
Children
1 M John D. Vandall 1437
Born: Bef 1805 41 Died: Buried:Spouse: Rachel Wiseman (Bef 1810- ) Marr: 2 May 1827 - Greenbrier County, Virginia 39
2 M E. D. Vandall 3
Born: Died: Buried:
Husband's General Notes
se CD#520, Supplement to 1840 census, Revolutionary war soldiers, Fayette Co, VA : Abraham Vandal, age 80, living in household of E. D. Vandal.
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Henry Mace & Mary Davis
Husband Henry Mace
Born: Died: Buried:Married: - Not On Cd #229
Noted events in his life were:
• Residence, Between 1812-1815 - Braxton County, Virginia
Wife Mary Davis
Born: Died: Buried:
Children
1 F Sarah Anna Mace
Born: May 1800 - Lewis County, Virginia (See Notes) Died: Abt 1905 - Kanawha County, West Virginia (See Notes) 1 Buried:Spouse: Jacob Mace Sr. (Abt 1786-1860) Marr: Abt 1818 - (See Notes For Sarah Mace)
2 F Barbara E. Mace
Born: Abt 1817 - Braxton County, Virginia 166 Died: After 1910 - Kanawha County, West Virginia Buried:Spouse: James Sands (Abt 1817-1862) Marr: Not On Cd#229Spouse: Miles O'brien (Abt 1835- ) Marr: 4 Jan 1866 - Kanawha County, West Virginia 2
Husband's General Notes
see notes for daughter Sarah Mace: was a soldier in the War of 1812.
General Notes for Child Sarah Anna Mace
Per the 1900 Kanawha Co, WV census: she had given birth to 11 children, of whom 3 were still alive.
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Annotations to the 1850 Kanawha Co, VA census (KVGS @1987) pg. 160, gives her name as "Sarah Ann or Anna Lewis". (presumably this is an error, a contraction of Anna Mace born in Lewis Co, VA)
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From the West Virginia Historical Magazine, October 1904 Edition, pages 302-304:
The above is a correct likeness of (photo of Mrs. Annie Mace). Mrs. Annie resides with her son-in-law, Mathew Sands, on the Mile Fork of Coopers Creek, Kanawha County, West Virginia. The photograph was taken by Miss Roberta Coleman, (Now Mrs. Dr. Hugh B. Nicholson), July 24, 1901, Grandmother Mace having rounded up her one hundred and fourth year in May last. I am not sure, but I am under the impression that she is the oldest living citizen of Kanawha County.
She is the daughter of Henry and Mary (Davis) Mace, and was born on Hackers Creek in what is now Webster County, West Virginia, in the month of May, 1800. When the subject of this sketch was a young girl her parents moved to Sutton, Braxton County, where they remained twelve or thirteen years, and then settled at Bulltown, on the Little Kanawha river, where the daughter Annie, at a little less than eighteen years of age, married Jacob Mace, her cousin, who was about twenty years her senior.
They next migrated to the West Fork Valley of the Little Kanawha river in Calhoun County and remained there until they came to Kanawha County in 1840 and located on the Mile Fork of Coopers Creek, six miles from Charleston, where she has ever since resided.
Out of eleven children born to her and her husband, but three are living - Henry, who is eighty past; Townsend, who is upwards of sixty-seven, and Rachel, the youngest of the family, who is fifty-five.
The husband, Jacob Mace, died in 1860, aged eighty years. His sister, Eunice Conrad, died in Gilmer County five years ago aged 117 years.
Mrs. Annie Mace, the subject of this sketch, has a sister, Mrs. Barbara Sands, mother of Mathew Sands, one of our thrifty and influential citizens of Kanawha County, who is ninety-one years old.
Our photographer, Miss Coleman, now Mrs. Nicholson, did not secure a picture of Mrs. Sands for the reason that she was on a few weeks' visit to a married son who resides near Clay Court House on Elk River. Both of these sisters, although one of them has more than rounded up a full century and is starting upon another, and the younger, herself nearly a century old, are sprightly and vigorous, and no one would take either of them to be nearly so old as they are known to be. They both travel about in the neighborhood as has been their custom for sixty-four years past, and the most of the time they are in excellent health.
Mrs. Mace informed me that her father was a soldier in the war of 1812, and that he was discharged at Norfolk, Virginia, from disease and wounds, and her mother rode on horseback to that city and brought her husband home to Braxton County where he, at that time resided. She remembers her mother's long absence on that trip, for the reason that she had to do all the housekeeping in her mothers' absence. She related to me some thrilling stories of her mother's adventures with wolves and other wild animals, which infested the country, nearly all the way to and from Norfolk.
Grandmother Mace is a woman of more than ordinary sense and judgment, and I can say from a personal acquaintance with her of almost a half century, that she is a woman of unusual ability and force of character. She is well known for many miles around her home, and all her acquaintances and neighbors will testify to her high character and moral worth as a citizen. She told me that she is living on borrowed time, and is patiently waiting for the Master's call to a nobler and better life.
I regret that I failed to secure a photograph of Mrs. Sands. She, however, came to Kanwaha county with her sister, Mrs. Mace, and has continually resided here ever since. Her husband, James Sands, died in 1863. There were born to them eight children, five of whom are now living.
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Obituary from a newspaper clipping (no date or newspaper given):
Mrs. "Annie" Mace, better known as "Gramma" Mace who was probably the oldest person in the state, died last week at her home on Mile Fork of Coopers Creek. She was 105 years old and was the widow of Jacob Mace, once a well known citizen of this county.
Mrs. Mace was born in Lewis County, Virginia, now Calhoun County, WV, in 1800, and in 1818 was married to Jacob Mace, they came to this county about seventy-five years ago, and here she resided until her death. She was the mother of a number of children, two of whom, Henry and Townsend Mace, survive her. These are aged respectively 83 and 80.
The funeral of Mrs. Mace will take place at the home at 11 o'clock this morning, and the interment will be made at rhe family burying grounds nearby.
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Samuel D. Walton & Mary Davis
Husband Samuel D. Walton
Born: Abt 1813 - Virginia 17 Died: Buried:Married: 2 Apr 1834 - Augusta County, Virginia 39
Noted events in his life were:
• Census, 1850 - Kanawha Co, VA #2068-2118
• Census, 1860 - Kanawha Co, VA #1820
• Census, 1880 - Kanawha Co, WV Malden Dist. #1, Pg15
Wife Mary Davis
Born: Abt 1810 - Virginia 17 Died: Bef 1880 27 Buried:
Noted events in her life were:
• Census, 1850 - Kanawha Co, VA #2068-2118
• Census, 1860 - Kanawha Co, VA #1820
Children
1 M Wesley Alexander Walton
Born: Abt 1834 - Augusta County, Virginia 2 Died: Buried:Spouse: Malvina Palmer (Abt 1848- ) Marr: 26 Mar 1868 - Kanawha County, West Virginia
2 F Maria B. Walton
Born: Abt 1838 - Kanawha County, Virginia 2 Died: Buried:Spouse: Morris Leftwich (1831- ) Marr: 2 Jan 1856 - Kanawha County, West Virginia 2
3 M James Richard\Richmond Walton
Born: Abt 1839 - Virginia 17 Died: Buried:Spouse: Lucy Alice West (Abt 1847- ) Marr: 27 Oct 1870 - Kanawha County, West Virginia 2
4 F Sarah Walton
Born: Abt 1842 - Virginia 17 Died: Buried:
5 M John N. Walton
Born: Abt 1846 - Kanawha County, Virginia 2 Died: Buried:Spouse: Harriet Elizabeth Abbott (Abt 1848- ) Marr: 10 Nov 1868 - Kanawha County, West Virginia 2
6 F Eliza Lavinia Walton
Born: Abt 1849 - (Now) West Virginia 27 Died: Buried:Spouse: John Charles Matheny (1841-1918) Marr: 11 Feb 1872 - Kanawha County, West Virginia 2
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