This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Davis, Mashburn, Stroud, Harris Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/5UB.2ACI/2768.1 Message Board Post: Hi Norman, your cousin Marty Grant here. John Davis who married Elizabeth Mashburn lived in what is now McDowell County. He died shortly after marriage though (ca 1819) leaving only two sons Matthew (1817) and William M. Davis (1819). Elizabeth Mashburn married Abel Harris in the 1820's and moved to nearby Buncombe County, later moving to Fannin Co, GA. I'm related to Elizabeth (mother was a Stroud, my Aunt), but I have not identified the family of John Davis yet. p.s. The bondsman for their marriage was Thomas Welch, not Thomas Davis, though I've seen both names listed in transcripts. I don't recall whether I've looked at the original marriage bond or not. That would solve it.