Willie Ann Davis

Notes:

Family Tree Information from the book "John J. Jordan of Moniteau County, Missouri" By Robert Atkin Jordan - lists Lewis Davis as the son of Israel Davis d. 1797 with a wife named "Mary". From "The Courier" newspaper, April 15, 1824 "A List of Letters, remaining in the post office at Murfreesborough, Tennessee on the first day of April 1824, which if not taken out before the first day of July next, will be sent to the General Post Office as dead letters." Lewis Davis is listed as having two letters waiting for him. Will of Lewis Davis In the name of God Amen. Lewis Davis of the County of Rutherford and State of Tennessee being well in body and of sound mind, do make ordain and constitute this my last will and testament in the words following, to wit: First it is my will that at my decease all my just debts should be paid. Secondly it is my will that my below wife Elizabeth shall inherit, use and enjoy all the estate both real and personal of which I shall ______ if during her natural life or widowhood excepting such articles of property is that herein _______ and bequeathed to several of my children. It is my will that my daughters Elizabeth and Mary shall each receive a good feather bed and a good side saddle, it is my desire provided they shall not have been furnished with them as their own before my decease. It is my will that my daughter Martha Lavender shall inherit a certain Negro slave named Harriet and all her future increases to become her property at the decease of my wife Elizabeth or at my wish earlier as this my wife Elizabeth shall choose to give her, to my said daughter Martha Lavender. And it is also my will that my said daughter Martha Lavender shall inherit a good feather bed and a good side saddle at my decease, provide she also not have been furnished previously. It is my will that my sons William Lewis and James Monroe shall each inherit a good horse and saddle at my decease provided they shall not have been furnished with them prior to my decease and it is further my will that my two sons William Lewis and James Monroe shall receive out of my estate at my decease one hundred dollars each to be paid them by my executor or executrix and out of the moneys that may be on hand at my decease or moneys arising from the sale of personal property or in anyway which my wife Elizabeth shall prefer to raise it out of my estate, not otherwise herein bequeathed. It is further my will that my son Nicholas shall have at my decease receive and inherit a good horse & saddle provided he shall not have been provided for prior to my death and after the date of this instrument. It is my will that after the afore written bequests are fulfilled to my aforementioned children that my wife Elizabeth shall possess each and every of any and all my real and personal estate during her natural life or widowhood and that after her decease an equal distribution of the remains of my estate shall be made among my children their heirs if it is understood that all my children herein after named are to draw and inherit equal shares with the rest beside and in addition to the bequeath herein made to them. It is my will that in case my wife Elizabeth should remarry after my decease, she shall inherit her lawful dowry only and that my estate shall on hr marriage be divided & distributed according to law after the aforementioned bequeaths to my children are fulfilled. Lastly it is my will that my wife Elizabeth shall act as Executrix to this my last will and testament. She may be at full liberty to choose, select and employ any assistance which she may deem necessary without posting bond and security for the performance of duty. To this my last will and testament I have set my hand and affixed my seal in Rutherford this 6th day of October in the year of our Lord 1834. Signed and Sealed Lewis Davis From Record Book 9 of Rutherford Co TN, the following is an inventory of his estate on Nov 12, 1835: 28 head of horned cattle, 7 head of horses, 70 head of hogs and pigs, 30 head of sheep, 4 feather beds, and furniture, 1 press, 1 bureau, 1 sugar chest, 1 candle slane, 2 chests, 2 tables, 10 chairs, part of set blacksmiths tools, 1 reel, 1 looking glass, 3 spinning wheels, 1 log chain, 1 old wagon, 4 pair draught chairs, 6 ploughs, 1 set of kitchen furniture, 5 bedstands, 2 syth blades, 1 wheat fan, 1 grindstone, 1 set table furniture, 10 hoes, 6 pole arcs, 1 cat saw, 1 pair fur dogs. Negro slave Dinah and four children, Mary and four children, Jenny and 1 child, and Maria. Crop on hand of tobacco, cotton, and grain. Slaves of Lewis Davis Estate, Rutherford County, TN Lot #1 given to John Lasater (Lasiter) and his wife Nancy Davis Lasater - this couple migrated to Marion County, Texas Lot #2 given to Henry Jones and his wife Delila Davis Jones - in 1880 this couple were in Lincoln County, Missouri Lot #3 given to Ellis Davis - who was living in Gibson County, Tennessee in the 1880 census Lot #4 given to Enoch N. Dickson and his wife Martha Davis Dickson - Martha and children are living in Gibson County, Tennessee in 1880 census. Lot #5 given to Berry Thurman and his wife Willie Ann Davis - who migrated to Cumberland Co KY about 1828. They lived their lives out in Clinton County, Kentucky. Lot #6 given to Mary Davis McCulloch - Mary was married to James D. McCullough in 1838 but by 1843, James had divorced her and remarried. Mary was still living in Rutherford Co Tn based upon father estate administration. Adeline, about 10 years of age in 1845 (Deed Book 2 page 318; Deed book 2 page 481, 1846 - divided into Lot #4 with Toney and Dina) Amy and child Elvira (Deed book 2 page 481, 1846 - divided into Lot #3 with Lucinda) Andy, about 25 years of age in 1845 (Deed Book 2 page 318; Deed book 2 page 481, 1846 -divided into Lot#1 with Edmund) Anny, about 23 years of age in 1845 (Deed Book 2 page 318) Bob (Deed book 2 page 481, 1846 - divided into Lot #6 with Eliza and child) Dina, about 55 years of age in 1845 (Deed Book 2 page 318; Deed book 2 page 481, 1846 - divided into lot #4 with Toney and Adeline) Dina and 4 children (Lewis Davis inventory Record book 9, 1835) Edmund, about 7 years of age in 1845 (Deed Book 2 page 318; Deed book 2 page 481, 1846 - divided into lot#1 with Andy) Eliza and "youngest child Dick" (Deed book 2 page 481, 1846 - divided into Lot #6 with Bob) Frances - female (Deed book 3 page 165, 1846, Deed book 8 page 616) Green, about 9 years of age in 1845 (Deed Book 2 page 318; Deed book 2 page 481, 1846 - divided into Lot #5 with Jinny and Nicey) Harriet (Lewis Davis will - willed to Lewis' daughter Martha Lavender Davis Dickson - wife of Enoch Nash Dickson) Jim, about 20 years of age in 1845 (Deed Book 2 page 318; Deed book 2 page 481, 1846 - Divided into Lot #2 with Julia) Jinny, about 35 years of age in 1845 (Deed Book 2 page 318; Deed book 2 page 481, 1846 - divided into Lot #5 with Green and Nicey) Jinny and 1 child (Lewis Davis inventory Record book 9, 1835) Julia (Deed book 2 page 481, 1846 - divided into Lot #2 with Jim) Lucinda (Deed book 2 page 481, 1846 - divided into lot #3 with Amy and child Elvira) Maria (Lewis Davis inventory Record book 9, 1835) Mary and 4 children (Lewis Davis inventory Record book 9, 1835) Nicey, about 2 years of age in 1845(Deed Book 2 page 318; Deed book 2 page 481, 1846 - divided into Lot #5 with Jinny and Green) Toney, about 35 years of age in 1845 (Deed Book 2 page 318; Deed book 2 page 481, 1846 - divided into Lot #4 with Adeline and Dina) ____________________________________________ Not sure which church the Davis family attended, but from the following record, it is clear that their neighbors (Ruckers and McCulloughs) attended Bradley's Creek Baptist Church (based upon information from the book "History of Middle Tennessee Baptists" By John Harvey.

Buried:
Davis Plantation Cemetery

Lewis married Elizabeth Josephine Chase Bugg on 9 Mar 1797 in Amherst County, Virginia, USA. Elizabeth (daughter of Sherwood (Sharod) Bugg and Ann Oglesby) was born in 1781 in Amherst County, Virginia, USA; died on 17 Apr 1854 in Rutherford, Tennessee, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Birth: 1779/1808
• Census: 1840, Rutherford Co TN census 000011-10001001
• Census: 1850, Rutherford Co Tn
• Death: 1784/1890

Notes:

Rutherford County Deed Book 2 page 318 This indenture made this 17th day of October 1845 by and between Elizabeth Davis of the County of Rutherford State of Tennessee of the first part, and Berry Thurman & his wife Willy Anne of the County of Cumberland & State of Kentucky, John Lasater & his wife Nancy, Ellis Davis, Henry Jones & his wife Martha L. the last of the County of Rutherford except Lasater & wife who resides in the County of Wilson, State of Tennessee of the second part witnesseth that the said Elizabeth for the consideration of natural love & affection she bears to the said parties of the second part, her children and sons in law & for the further consideration of one dollar to her in hand paid at the ensealing & delivery of these presents, hath given granted bargained & sold surrendered up and conveyed & doth by these presents give grant bargain & sell surrender up and convey to the said parties of the second part their heirs executors and administrators and assigns all the right title claim & interest she has in & to the two tract of land lying in the County of Rutherford on the north side of Bradleys Creek one purchased by Lewis Davis dec. of John Donelson, containing about two hundred acres & the other purchased of Daniel Hoskins & adjoining the first on the east containing about one hundred and three acres devised to her by the will of her deceased husband Lewis Davis for & during her life or widowhood excepting one hundred & thee acres the northern part of the first mentioned tract including all the buildings orchard on said tract bounded as follows; Beginning on a white oak the north east corner of the 200 acre tract, thence west with the north boundary line three degrees east 162/4 poles to the northwest corner, thence south with the west boundary one hundred and sixteen poles to a stake in the mouth of McAdeos Lane thence east to the east boundary of said tract one hundred and forty two poles a white oak marked E.D. thence north with the east boundary to the beginning containing about one hundred and three acres which the reserves out of said tracts of land for and during her natural life to have & to hold said bargained premises with the appurtenances unto the said parties of the second part (the said husbands & their wives to have each the one undivided sixth part of said lands and each of the unmarried children the undivided one sixth part of the same) their heirs and assignees forever. And for the consideration aforesaid to the said parties of the second part, the following slaves for life bequeathed to he by the will of her said husband during her life or widowhood namely Toney about 35 years old, Andy about 25, Jim about 20, Dina 55, Ginny 35, Adeline 10, Anny 23, Green 9, Edmund 7 Nice 2, to have & to hold said slaves for life unto the said parties of the second part their heirs & assignees forever (each of said unmarried children to have an undivided one sixth interest in said slaves & said husbands & wives to have also an undivided one sixth part of the same, said land & slaves aforesaid being given up and surrendered to said children to enable them to divide the same or the properties if sold equally amongst the said Elizabeth's children. The said children being entitled after my death by the will of their father to an equal interest absolutely in said land & slaves. It is understood however that said Elizabeth is to have the use of said land & slaves until the present crop gathered & secured, and the said Elizabeth hereby reserves the balance of said slaves, given to her as aforesaid by the will of her deceased husband for & during her natural life. In testimony whereof the said Elizabeth hath hereunto set signed sealed and delivered in presence of: S.R. Rucker Pleasant White Elizabeth X Davis Her mark Her mark Elizabeth X Davis 1850 Rutherford Co TN census Valley District Household #653 Elizabeth Davis 69 VA $1500 Mary McCulloch 37 TN Isabella McCulloch 11 TN Elizabeth's maiden name was listed in the book "John J. Jordan of Moniteau County, Missouri" By Robert Atkin Jordan

Sherwood married Ann Oglesby in 1778. Ann was born in 1745; died in 1796. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

William and second wife, Susanna Woodson, buried in Old Bugg cemetery (Shores) Fluvanna Co VA. Lumber company was cutting timber around the place but had roped off where old cemetery had been, according to book called THE BUGGS OF BIG ALBEMARLE COUNTY, VA by F.L. Brouchu of Salem, VA.

William married Susanna Woodson in 1730 in New Ken Countyt, Virginia, USA. Susanna (daughter of William Woodson and Sarah Allen) was born about 1716 in Fluvanna, Virginia, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Possibly William Bugg sneaked out of New Kent in middle of night to avoid paying a debt. Probably wife, Mary Bacon, had died by then. John William, born 1731, was apparently left behind and went to live with uncle Sharod Bugg, in Georgia (That Sharod was son of Samuel Bugg Jr.). So apparently William went to Fluvanna and married Susanna. Lots of Woodsons there. Both of them supposedly buried in Shores Cemetery in Fluvanna, now covered over. Have letter from Fluvanna librarian saying graves were marked some years ago but sites longer marked.