1840 - 1918 (77 years)
Generation: 1
1. | Mary Josephine Davidson was born on 9 Jun 1840 in Alabama (daughter of William Madison Davidson and Martha Claiborne Goodrich); died on 3 Jun 1918; was buried in Spring Hill Cemetery, Hemphill, Sabine County, Texas. Notes:
Her tombstone is inscribed:
"Wife of Amos Travis-
To Our Mother-
Thy life was beauty truth goodness and love"
Mary married Charlton Hines before 1857. Charlton (son of Elbert Hines and Mahana Melton) was born on 14 Sep 1830 in Sabinetown, Sabine County, Texas; died on 6 Jun 1865 in Sabine County, Texas; was buried in Isaac Low Cemetery, Sabinetown, Sabine County, Texas. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]
Children:
- Isaac Franklin Hines was born in 1857; and died.
- Charlton Hines was born in Apr 1860; and died.
- Emily Adelia Hines was born on 2 Jan 1862; died on 11 Jul 1940.
- Martha "Mattie" Mahana Hines was born on 3 Feb 1864; died on 27 Sep 1944 in Texas; was buried in Hemphill City Cemetery, Hemphill, Sabine County, Texas.
- William (Kunk) Hines was born after 1864; and died.
Mary married John Amos Travis after 1865. John (son of John Travis and Mary Raborn) was born between 1839 and 1841 in Mississippi; died after 1920. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]
Children:
- John Amos Travis was born on 9 Jan 1872 in Texas; died on 2 Aug 1959.
- James H. Travis was born on 18 Jan 1875; died on 18 Apr 1937.
- Richard Coke Travis was born on 4 Nov 1877 in Hemphill, Sabine County, Texas; died on 4 Mar 1938 in Hemphill, Sabine County, Texas; was buried in Hemphill City Cemetery, Hemphill, Sabine County, Texas.
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Generation: 2
2. | William Madison Davidson was born in 1808 in Tennessee; died on 15 Aug 1863 in Texas. Notes:
Per "1850 Census Sabine County, Texas with added Family Information and Corrections," William Madison Davidson owned 16 slaves. Per OLDTIMERS OF SABINE COUNTY, TEXAS he fought along with his son-in-law Amazia Vardeman White in Company F, 11th Texas Infantry. He died on the way home, somewhere near Marshall, and the irony of it was that he volunteered after he was past the age of 55, in anothers place, in exchange for a slave.
He was said by White and Toole to be the son of William "Squire Billy" DAVIDSON and Jane BIRDWELL, and a brother of Blackburn Davidson, who married Harriet Goodrich. White and Toole show him as a grandson of Wm. Davidson, b ca 1755, in N.C., lived to be 96. When members of his family loaded their wagons in 1849, and departed for Texas, never to return, the old grandfather, nearly blind, stood by the side of the road and waved until they were out of sight. He had begged to be taken to Texas with them. SABINE COUNTY GENEALOGICAL RECORDS, pps 84-87, contains details of various early Davidson families settlers in Pennsylvania, Virginia and the Carolinas. Gen. Samuel Houston was the grandson of a Margaret Davidson. Thomas Whitfiled Davidson, a Texas state senator and Lietut. Governor, was claimed as a relative of Jefferson Oliver Davidson of Sabine County (personal interview with Beulah Davis Hughes). (White and Toole, p 87).
Other researchers show him instead as a son of William DAVIDSON (born 1779 Va, d. 1860 Texas) and Nancy ALBRIGHT (born 1779 Va), and an Uncle of Blackburn Davidson.
William married Martha Claiborne Goodrich about 1839. Martha (daughter of Thomas Benton Goodrich and Martha Smith) was born on 22 Jan 1814 in Virginia; died on 18 Nov 1895; was buried in Spring Hill Cemetery, Hemphill, Sabine County, Texas. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]
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Generation: 3
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