Robert E Lee Davis Parents

[oldohiohome]

Better to stick to one family at a time and do them thoroughly. I mentioned the Colliers so you would take note of them for when you got around to working on them later.

[TomGad]

Better to stick to one family at a time and do them thoroughly. I mentioned the Colliers so you would take note of them for when you got around to working on them later.

I can’t find anything before the 1870 Census for Frank Davis. The issue is his name is different on the two census’ I do have. 1870 he is Franklin Davis and in 1880 he is just F M Davis.

Can anybody find anything before 1870?

[oldohiohome]

I found 1860. I'll post it later. He should be on the 1850 census also. Everyone in the household was listed, so even if he's with his parents he should be there. From 1840 and back it only listed the heads of the household.

[oldohiohome]

1860 Township 18 N Range 13 E, Pemiscot County, Missouri
P.O. Caruthersville
July 13, 1860
Page 39, family 289
Francis M Davis, age not known, levee builder, personal estate: $200, born in Kentucky
Josephine Davis, age not known, housewife, born in Missouri
Alex Devlin, age not known, female, no occupation, real estate: 200, born in Missouri
William H Davis, 1, born in Missouri

https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MH8M-C3W?lang=en

[oldohiohome]

These are not him in 1850.
1850 Caldwell County, Kentucky
not him. mother born in Caldwell County
Francis M Davis, 16, born in Kentucky
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:M65B-74K?lang=en

1850 District 1, Bourbon County, Kentucky not him.
is this him? no. in 1860 he is still with Catherine Canady. And in 1870 he is still in Bourbon County, as a farm laborer.
family 424
William Canady, 63, farmer, real estate: $12,000, born in Kentucky
Catherine Canady, 60, born in Maryland
Francis M Davis, 16, born in Kentucky
Levi, 23, black, laborer, born in Kentucky

https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:M65T-5M5?lang=en

[TomGad]

1860 Township 18 N Range 13 E, Pemiscot County, Missouri
P.O. Caruthersville
July 13, 1860
Page 39, family 289
Francis M Davis, age not known, levee builder, personal estate: $200, born in Kentucky
Josephine Davis, age not known, housewife, born in Missouri
Alex Devlin, age not known, female, no occupation, real estate: 200, born in Missouri
William H Davis, 1, born in Missouri

https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MH8M-C3W?lang=en

Ancestry has Francis’ birth year listed as 1832 for this entry. Also, Who is Josephine?

[TomGad]

1860 Township 18 N Range 13 E, Pemiscot County, Missouri
P.O. Caruthersville
July 13, 1860
Page 39, family 289
Francis M Davis, age not known, levee builder, personal estate: $200, born in Kentucky
Josephine Davis, age not known, housewife, born in Missouri
Alex Devlin, age not known, female, no occupation, real estate: 200, born in Missouri
William H Davis, 1, born in Missouri

https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MH8M-C3W?lang=en

I think I have figured it out going through Lee Davis’ Tree on Ancestry. Francis must have been with or married Josephine at some point. Lee has her listed as Josephine Celisbeast.

Josephine was also married to a Mr Thomas Doolin and they had a son Alex Doolin. Now whether this is a relation to the Doolin on the Davis Census I believe could be true. Does this link it all together do you think?

[oldohiohome]

I think I have figured it out going through Lee Davis’ Tree on Ancestry. Francis must have been with or married Josephine at some point. Lee has her listed as Josephine Celisbeast.

Josephine was also married to a Mr Thomas Doolin and they had a son Alex Doolin. Now whether this is a relation to the Doolin on the Davis Census I believe could be true. Does this link it all together do you think?

Makes sense to me and it explains who Alex is on the 1860 and 1870 censuses.  I couldn't read the last name on either sheet.

[oldohiohome]

Should I make a new thread for the Colliers?

Here are the Colliers back to England, if the research is correct.
They have Mary Collier's marriage to Daniel Sorter, who died in 1862, and their 3 children found with F.M. Davis and Mary in 1870. They don't have her marriage to Francis Marion Davis.

https://www.familysearch.org/en/tree/person/details/L63L-T5S