Posted on: Jefferson County Queries Reply Here: http://genconnect.rootsweb.com/gc/USA/Mo/Jefferson/418 Surname: davis, clark, bettick ------------------------- Fredric, Thank you so much for your response. I had seen the records also stating James Davis was a free black. I also had seen copies of Henry Widemann's will and found it very curious the way James was mentioned in it "My grandson, who goes by the name of James Davis." Do you have any idea why he was so readily accepted by the white population, everyone else who married into the family seems to have been white. Was there less discrimanation towards blacks then (1800) as opposed to the 1850/60's? Do you know where the Herrington cemetery is located? Just one more thing I recently heard that Mary Herrington had married John Wilson. this John Wilson is my gggggrandfather.through their son Alexander Chambers and his daughter Mary Jane and Thomas Williams. Mary Jane (first mar. Moses Osie). Mar Jane and Thomas'son Davis mar Viola Ethel Davis, d/o William and Eliza Jane Bettick Davis, William being the s/o John and Margaret Clark Davis. John being the s/o James and Sarah Davis. I alsothink I might have a few of those alien ancestors,and they did a good job of hiding and destorying ther records. Again thanks for responding, Darlene Green