A Wilson Family Tree
Notes for Martha Ann Davis
From the Parks manuscript:
Martha Ann Davis, about twenty-one, was married to Dr. Andrew Alexander Arbuckle, a young physician of great promise, but was left a widow within a few years. She afterwards married Robert Steele, a merchant in the village of Greenville, Augusta County, who after years of prosperity failed and came to Missouri. He was many years older than she, and when he came to Missouri too far advanced in life to recuperate his fortunes, although a man of untiring energy and industry. He settled in Johnson County, in the fall of 1837; rented for a year or two, then entered land and improved a farm for himself. After coming to Missouri and engaging in more laborious business than he had been accustomed to, Mr. Steele was subject to frequent attacks of intermitting fever, and his family growing, he felt the necessity of better schools than Johnson County afforded, as well as a business better adapted to his advanced age than farming. Accordingly, he sold out in Johnson and removed to Lexington, where he died in 1844. Martha Ann Steele was then left a widow with four children, she had lost one in Johnson County, and I believe one in Virginia. Her surviving children were Annie, William T., Martha A., and Rosa. She remained in Lexington until the education of her children was well advanced. She then removed to Warrensburg, William engaging in the practice of law. After the war, she removed to Otterville, Cooper County, subsequently to Texas, and died in or near Fort Worth, where I believe her three surviving children still live.
Martha Ann Davis is listed twice in the Ancestral File, for some reason
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