A Wilson Family Tree
Notes for Emily Davidson
From the Willis Long Reeves notes (obtained from the Trewolla Moskop Haas Mansfield Tree web site):
Emily Davidson married first, Norfleet Carr of Logan County who is listed in the 1850 census as "Gentleman" whatever that meant in those days. It is to be assumed that he was wealthy and that he owned several slaves. Brewer [i.e., Willis Brewer Reeves] mentions in one of his letters that "Ma" said that she would "give you a negro or two". Priscilla Davidson [the wife of Willis Brewer Reeves] must have visited her aunt Em as we soon find that the son marries the niece after the father had married the aunt. There were no children to this union [between Willis and Emily]. Emily is buried in the Elkton cemetery beside John Littlejohn Davidson, Harriet Ann Davidson, and Harriet B. Davidson who was the second wife of James H. Davidson. She is the mother of Emily and the step grandmother of the other two. In the "Letters to Priscilla, we have the will of Emily in which she leaves most of her modest possessions to Priscilla and forgives a note owed her by Brewer. The will is not witnessed but is written in her own hand and addressed to Priscilla.
[Continued in the notes for Willis Brewer Reeves.]
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