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    1. DAVIDSON FAMILIES
    2. This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: DAVIDSON, KEITH Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/FNR.2ACEB/3254 Message Board Post: I am looking for information on my Great Grandmother LILLY DAVIDSON b 1882 in Tenn. Her father was ANDREW ANCIL DAVIDSON and her mother was MARGARET BRADLEY. ANDREW DAVIDSON father was ANSEL DAVIDSON married to a LOUISA JACKSON. I have traced the family tree but the information I am looking for is below. I am looking for information on her son...My grandfather....... I am looking for information on my Grandfather JOSEPH HARRIS KEITH. Come to find out...he was not "born" a Keith... He was born with the last name of MILLBREY. Here is what I have: 1910 CENSUS JOSEPH HARRIS MILLBREY B 03/31/1907 in Tenn. In the 1910 White County, Tenn census he is living with his mother Lilly and sister Lizzie M in the household of ANDREW DAVIDSON which is his grandparents... his MOTHERS family. Joseph Harris Millbrey mothers name is Lilly Davidson Millbrey..divorced in 1910. 1920 CENSUS There is no MILLBREY ...BUT... I found a JOE KEITH age 12 (same age as mine) in Harlan County, Kentucky as a boarder in the home of a Richard Caudill, wife MAY age 16 and mother in law ANNA ARTHUR age 38. My Grandfather had a sister named May. In the 1910 census she is listed as LIZZIE M (the M could stand for May) AND my father told me that he knew his grandmother as ANNA...NOT Lilly. This is too much of a coincidence for me. ( Or am I grasping at straws here) All the ages are in track with the 1910 census and I know that grandfathers mother married many times. I have searched for a Joe..Joseph..Millbrey and Keith and this is what I could find for 1920. 1930 CENSUS My grandfather JOSEPH HARRIS KEITH is in Raleigh County, West Virginia listed as JOE KEITH with my grandmother ETHEL and their 1st child Lois. My father told me that my grandfather was supposed to have a brother named Richard that died in WW11. I am assuming that he had the last name of KEITH but I am not sure. My grandfathers family was very hush hush about everything and not too many...only me and my aunt know about him not really being born a Keith. Do you know of any KEITH adopting a Joseph H. "Millbrey" and his sisters name was Lizzie May.?? Is this too confusing??? The rumor is that Joseph Harris KEITH father...or adopted fathers name was Melvin or Marvin KEITH. I am not sure if he was adopted or took on the last name of KEITH. So if all this fits then my Great grandmother went from her maiden name of DAVIDSON...married a MILLBREY(as it was transcribed in the 1910 census in Tenn)...married a KEITH....( my grandfather had the KEITH name in the 1920 census in Kentucky)..married a ARTHUR...(as it was trandscribed in the 1920 Kentucky census) after that she married a man by the name of Penny Walls. The DAVIDSONS that Lilly belongs to are from JACKSON COUNTY, TENN. I do know that Lillys (Anna)as she went by later....brother HORACE DAVIDSON was living in RALEIGH COUNTY, WEST VIRGINIA...My father said he had a farm there. HORACE DAVIDSON passed away 01/04/1940. I hope that SOMEONE out there has information about her or her family. As I stated before she did not talk to her children or grandchildren about her life..... this is my brick wall. Please email me if you have any information about this family. Thank you, Connie

    08/03/2006 02:35:53