This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: DAVIDSON//BRAY//STONE//SHORT Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/FNR.2ACEB/1063.1207.1.2.1.1.2.2.1.2.1 Message Board Post: Hello Shirley, My g.g.grandmother Eugenia "Sophronia" DAVIDSON 25 Nov 1859 MO - 09 Oct 1915 MO, was an older sister to Waldo Grant DAVIDSON. Did Waldo have a daughter Inez, the youngest? I have not been able to find Alvoree's parents either. My lineage is: Sophronia m. George Edward BRAY > dau/Iva Ann BRAY m. John Quincy "Cue" STONE > dau/Mildred "Kathleen" Stone m. William "Dale" SHORT (my parents) My mother at the age of 92 yo, is still living. This is what she has told me about Alvoree and Nancy, as told by her mother: Alvoree was a school teacher. He made his own books since there was a scarcity of them. I think he helped with the organization of Christian Co., since he could read and write well. He and Nancy came down with a fever and died within a few days of each other. They were buried in a field, north of Ozark, off NN Hwy. In later years, their tombstones were set in concrete. All the children were raised by their Grandmother Nancy Duncan and Aunt Celia Duncan. The older women would sit up nights and make cloth for clothes for all the children. It was very tough for them. Alvoree had quite the flair for choosing his children's names. Also, here is the tombstone listing from the Christian Co. website: http://www.rootsweb.com/~mochrist/davidson.htm DAVIDSON CEMETERY Located NNE of Hopedale Church on the Grubaugh farm, Ozark, CC, MO Davidson, Alvoree/Alvery Abt 1821 1864 H/o Nancy (Duncan) Previous Cemetery Reading- Brenda Davidson, Nancy (Duncan) Abt 1824 1864 W/o Alvoree Previous Cemetery Reading- Brenda 1860 Christian Co.--Finley Twp. lists: #166 (hshld) DAVIDSON ALVORD 39 farmer TN Nancy 36 TN Marshal 5 MO Quincy 4 MO Columbus 3 MO Eugenine 9/12 MO 1870 Christian Co.--Porter Twp. #153-153 (hshld) Nancy Duncan 95 NC Cela 50 TN Elizabeth 45 TN #153-154 Marshal Davidson 14 MO (Marshal Blair) Lucy 11 MO (Quincy Monroe) Seffrona 9 MO (Eugenia Sophronia) Ordela 8 MO (Cordelia Roxanna) Waldo 5 MO (Waldo Grant) Christian County, Missouri Assessors Alvore Davidson 1861-1863 I have a picture of Sophronia and George E. BRAY. If you would like me to email to You. Also, I have their tombstone pic. Please contact me. I would love to exchange info. with You. Thank You, Debby Short-Carden Christian Co., MO or [email protected]