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Samuel Emory Davis. Samuel Emory Davis, the father of Jefferson Davis, was born in Georgia around 1755-58. His father, Evan Davis, died soon after Samuel's birth, leaving his mother, Mary Emory Davis, to care for him and his two half brothers.
When Major Samuel Emory Davis was born in 1756, in Georgetown, South Carolina, British Colonial America, his father, Evan Davis Jr, was 27 and his mother, Mary Lydia Emory, was 23. He married Martha Jane Simpson Cook in July 1783, in South Carolina, United States.
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- Martha Jane Simpson Cook
Jul 6, 2023 · Compare DNA and explore genealogy for Samuel Davis born 1756 Augusta, Richmond, Georgia died 1824 Woodville, Wilkinson, Mississippi, United States including ancestors + descendants + 4 genealogist comments + Y-chromosome DNA + more in the free family tree community.
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- July 4, 1824
- Jane Simpson (Cook) Davis
Maj Samuel Emory Davis. Revolutionary War Veteran Lincoln County Militia, Georgia Father of Confederate President Jefferson Davis∼THE biographical text (below), which I wrote years ago, relates to a Rev. Samuel Davis, and not to the Samuel Davis who was father of Jefferson DAVIS.
May 1, 2022 · Death: July 04, 1824 (68-69) Woodville, Wilkinson County, Mississippi, United States. Place of Burial: Biloxi, Harrison County, Mississippi, United States. Immediate Family: Son of Evan Davis, Jr. and Mary Lydia Davis. Husband of Jane Simpson Davis.
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Dec 1, 2015 · Samuel Emory Davis. Samuel, the father of Jefferson Davis, lies buried in the cemetery. Originally buried below Vicksburg, Mississippi, the elder Davis’s remains were brought to the Gulf Coast to lie at rest at Beauvoir after the course of the Mississippi River was slightly altered.
