Ken, I do not know who Monroe Davis' father is. I have: 1) DAVIS, Monroe. 17 Feb 1866-22 Jul 1945. (Husband of Rebecca Hillis). Cunningham, Almetia and Martha Holt. Compiled and Edited by Betty Moore Majors, 1Warren County, Tennessee Cemetery Book 1, Annotated, (Mountain Press, Signal Mountain, TN 1993), p. 253. ------------------------------------------------------- 2) Campaign - Monroe Davis age 89 years passed away at his home Wednesday night. He had been quite ill for several weeks. Funeral services were held at the Friendship Baptist Church Friday and burial was in Friendship cemetery. He is survived by three sons, Titus of Quebeck, Dennie, Floyd and a daughter, Mrs. William Rutledge of Campaign, several grandchildren and great grandchildren. Southern Standard, McMinnville, TN. Thurs, 11 Nov 1954, p. 19. -------------------------------------------------------- 3) Rebecca Hillis Davis - Funeral home gives year of death as 1952. Tombstone has (11 Jul 1868 - 9 May 1956) -------------------------------------------------------- It appears to me that John C. DAVIS in your census data is most probably the father of Monroe Davis. I am fowarding this on to someone that I just heard about who is a Davis research. Hopefully, he can settle the question. Ladye Jane ----- Original Message ----- From: <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Saturday, February 08, 2003 8:12 AM Subject: [TNWARREN] Rebecca Hillis 1869-1952 & Monroe Davis | Ladye, Can you confirm or deny that Monroe Davis was the son of John C. Davis | as mentioned below in my notes. I have never been able to connect this | husband of Rebecca Hillis with parents. Rebecca is buried in the Friendship | Cemetery, perhaps Monroe is buried there also. | | Regards, | | Ken Robertson | | Descendants of Monroe Davis | | Generation No. 1 | | 1. MONROE1 DAVIS He married REBECCA HILLIS1 May 18, 1883 in Van Buren | County, Tennessee2, daughter of ISAAC HILLIS and NANCY MCBRIDE. She was born | 1869 in Van Buren County, Tennessee, and died May 1952 in buried in | Friendship Cemetery, Warren County, Tennessee. | | Notes for MONROE DAVIS: | Monroe may be the son of John C. DAVIS, shown below in the 1870 & 1880 | census of Warren Co., TN | 1870 Census, Warren Co., TN, District 11, #31, page 194 of printed transcript | 1880 Census of Warren Co., TN, 10th District, #283 on page 233 of the printed | transcript of that census | | In those census Monroe is shown as a son named James M. age 4 and 14 | | 1870 Census | John C. DAVIS 26 TN Farmer | Mary L. 24 TN | Joseph 6 TN | James M. 4 TN | Louisa 2 TN | Thomas C. 1 TN | | 1880 Census (all persons are TN TN TN) | J. C. DAVIS 38 Farmer | Mary L. 36 Wife | Joseph R. 16 Son | James M. 14 Son | Louisa 12 Daughter | Thomas C. 11 Son | Elder G. 9 Son | Callie A. 7 Daughter | Rachel A. 5 Daughter | John W. 3 Son | | | | Notes for REBECCA HILLIS: | | ****************************** | | Davis, Mrs. Rebeccah Hillis | | Southern Standard McMinnville,TN May 16, 1952 pg 2 | | Friendship Rites For Mrs. Davis | | Funeral services for Mrs. Rebeccah Hillis Davis, about 84, were held Sunday | afternoon at 2 o’clock at Friendship Baptist church, at Campaign. John W. | High officiated and burial was in friendship cemetery. Mrs. Davis, wife of | Monroe Davis, died Friday evening at 9:56 o’clock at her home in Campaign. | She had been ill three months. A native of Warren county, Mrs. Davis was a | daughter of Ike Hillis and Nancy Hillis. She was a member of the Methodist | Church. Besides her husband, she is survived by three sons, Floyd and Denny | Davis, Campaign, and T. R. Davis , Quebeck; one daughter, Mrs. Maude | Rutledge, Campaign. Arrangements were by High Funeral Home. | | ** | | ** | | Campaign community– May 16, 1952 page 17 | | Death Removed one of our oldest citizens Friday night when Mrs. Rebecca Davis | departed this life after an illness of about four months. "Aunt Beck" and her | husband, "Uncle Mon" have resided in Campaign some 25 years, and had enjoyed | wedded bliss close to 70 years, having married in their early teens. | Althought they have no records, their ages are said to be 84 for her and 90 | or 91 for him. Mrs. Davis was a daughter of Ike and Nancy McBride Hillis born | in the Goodbars community of this community of this county and spent all | of her life in Warren and Van Buren. She was a member of the Methodist | church, a good woman, who never took to the fads and frills of our modern | age. She was devoted to her home and family, kind to her neighbors and loved | by their children. This world would be a better place if more people, like | Aunt Beck, would love the simple things of life, and have some of her | kindness, good heartedness, and patience. She was the mother of ten children, | 9 sons and one daughter, all deceased except Titus of Quebeck, Dennie and | Floyd and Mrs. Maude Rutledge of this place. She played a great part in | rearing of two grandsons, Zollie and Woodrow Davis, also of this place. She | was known to her family as Mammy and to her aged husband as "Becky" who | confided to us that in all the trials and tribulations of his long life, the | loss of his companion, was the hardest to bear. She is survived by many | grandchildren and great-grandchildren, all to whom our community offers | sympathy. Funeral services and burial at Friendship Sunday P.M. conducted by | Bro. Brannon and Mr. High. | *** | | | Children of MONROE DAVIS and REBECCA HILLIS are: | i. FLOYD2 DAVIS. | ii. DENNY DAVIS. | 2. iii. TITUS R. DAVIS, b. 1890, Tennessee. | iv. MAUDE DAVIS. | | | Generation No. 2 | | 2. TITUS R.2 DAVIS (MONROE1) was born 1890 in Tennessee. He married SARAH | BARLOW December 25, 1913 in Van Buren County, Tennessee3. She was born 1894 | in Tennessee. | | Notes for TITUS R. DAVIS: | 1920 Census, Van Buren Co., TN, District 1, #53-54, January 20, 1920, age 30 | | 1920 Census (all persons are TN TN TN) | Titus DAVIS 30 Head, Farmer, owns farm | Sarah 26 Wife | Allis 5 Daughter | | Child of TITUS DAVIS and SARAH BARLOW is: | i. ALLICE3 DAVIS, b. 1915, Tennessee.Endnotes | | 1. Van Buren Co., TN Marriage Records 1840-1935, published by VB Co. | Genealogy Society, 14. | 2. Van Buren Co., TN Marriage Records 1840-1935, published by VB Co. | Genealogy Society, page 20. | 3. 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