Tombstone Tuesday: Francis A. Davis 1857-1882

FRAИCIƧ  A. DAVIƧ

18 Jan 1857 - 12 Feb 1882

Tombstone of Francis A. Davis
Mt. Pleasant Cemetery, Pulaski Co., Kentucky

Francis was the son of Forney J. and Mary Ann (Evans) Davis and brother to my paternal great, great grandfather, John Miller Davis. Francis married Mary E. Debord, daughter of Logan G. and Clarissa B. (Cummins) Debord, on 20 Jan 1880. His brother Leander, married Mary's sister Sarah one year later. Both brothers died in their mid-twenties, after a little more than two years of marriage, leaving widows with no children.

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Tombstone Tuesday: Leander Sizemore Davis

 18 Nov 1859 - 29 Dec 1883

Tombstone of Leander Sizemore Davis
Mt. Pleasant Cemetery, Pulaski Co., Kentucky

Inscription:
"May he rest in peace"

Leander was the son of Forney J. and Mary Ann (Evans) Davis and brother to my paternal great, great grandfather, John Miller Davis. Leander married Sarah F. Debord, daughter of Logan G. and Clarissa B. (Cummins) Debord, on 27 Jan 1881. No children from this union.

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Tombstone Tuesday: Ursula Ann Martin Davis Burnett

URSULA ANN MARTIN

January 10, 1856 - July 20, 1900

Mount Pleasant Cemetery, Pulaski Co., Kentucky

Ursula Ann was my paternal 2nd great grandmother. She was born in Lee Co., Virginia to James Monroe and Susannah Grabeel Martin. Ursula married John Miller Davis on October 4, 1874 in Woodstock, Pulaski Co., Kentucky. They had three daughters, Mary Susan, Sarah Frances (my great grandmother) and Malvina Catherine "Mallie" Martin. John died in 1880 and on January 31, 1884 Ursula became the second wife of Cornelius Donaldson Burnett. They had four children: Daisy Cordelia "Cordie", Cora Jane, Hobart Cornelius, and Amanda Ursula "Sula" Burnett.

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Tombstone Tuesday: John Miller Davis 1853 - 1880

JOHN MILLER DAVIS 1853-1880

My paternal great, great grandfather

Son of Forney J. and Mary Ann Evans Davis
Married Ursula Ann Martin Oct. 4, 1874
Buried Mt. Pleasant Baptist Church Cemetery, Pulaski Co., Kentucky

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Wordless Wednesday: Grave Yard Dawg

Mt. Pleasant Cemetery

Pulaski Co., Kentucky 1999

Silent as a ghost, this dog followed my mother and I around the cemetery when we visited in the Spring of 1999. He never came close but seemed to want to hang out with us. I still remember the heavenly scent of  honeysuckle at this old burying ground.

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Tombstone Tuesday: Achsah Jackson Davis 1796 - 1877

Biblical Reference for the given name "Achsah"....

Joshua 15: 17-19 Caleb said,

"Whoever attacks Kiriath-sepher and takes it,

to him I will give my daughter Achsah as wife."

Othniel son of Kenaz, the brother of Caleb, took it;

and he gave him his daughter Achsah as wife.

When she came to him, she urged him to ask her father for a field.

As she dismounted from her donkey, Caleb said to her,

"What do you wish?"

She said to him,

"Give me a present.

Since you have set me in the land of the Negeb,

give me springs of water as well."

So Caleb gave her the upper springs and the lower springs.

Achsah Jackson, my paternal fourth great grandmother, was born April 4, 1796 in Ashe Co., North Carolina. She married James Davis on September 16, 1819 in Washington Co., Virginia and died September 12, 1877 in Pulaski Co., Kentucky. Children: Sarah Ann, John L., William J., Francis K., Forney J., Dorcas B., Frances, and Mary Jane. Buried Mt. Pleasant Cemetery, Pulaski Co., Kentucky.

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