A Wilson Family Tree
Notes for Elizabeth Davis
From the Parks manuscript:
Elizabeth, my mother, the eighth child of Walter and Martha (C) Davis, was born September 30th, 1770, married Joseph Parks, a gentleman from Pennsylvania, then a resident of Virginia, 24th of July 1795. Their children were James, born January 11th, 1798, Thomas Davis, Born December 8th, 1799, Philander, born January 28th, 1802, and died in infancy, Walter Davis, born November 10th, 1803, William Augustus, born February 26th, 1806, Rebecca Clark, August 8th, 1808, Martha Cunningham, born November 10th, 1810. Rebecca C. died September 2nd, 1815, aged seven years.William A., the 6th of the same month, Joseph Parks moved from Augusta county, Virginia, to Lincoln County, Kentucky, in the autumn of 1814; undetermined whether to settle permanently in the northern or southern part of the State, remained there until the spring, (1815) went into Mercer County, then in the spring, of 1816, settled in Christian County on Montgomery Creek, a branch of the West fork of the Red River, residing there till his death, September 11th, 1825, from which time his wife Elizabeth remained a widow till her death in October, 1844, making her home with her son James till he removed to Illinois in 1833 or ’34. She then made her home with her daughter Martha, now residing in Hopkinsville, Kentucky, till her death. She was active and helpful while she lived, one of whom it could not be said she outlived her usefulness.
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