Rev. Thomas Davis and Sarah Jones

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Husband Rev. Thomas Davis ¹

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           Born: 1772 - England 1
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           Died: 28 May 1848 1
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       Marriage: 

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   Other Spouse: Hannah Gilly (      -1813) 1 - 1793 1

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Wife Sarah Jones ²

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           Born: Abt 1773
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           Died: 1845 2
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         Father: Samuel Jones (      -      ) 2
         Mother: Sarah [Unk] (      -      ) 2

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   Other Spouse: Dr.  Richardson (      -      ) 2

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Children

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General Notes: Husband - Rev. Thomas Davis

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He was a cloth manufacturer. He left England in 1806, with the expectation of forming an English colony in the Susquehanna valley, in Pennsylvania. On arriving in Pennsylvania, he became acquainted with a man who in a short time stripped him of his means. This circumstance, in connection with the unprepossessing appearance of the Susquehanna country, was undoubtedly the cause of his advising his friends in England, not to come to America. He made his way to Pittsburgh, where for many years he was engaged in active business. He had a good general education before coming to America, and from his first location in Pittsburgh, was associated with the Presbyterian church. For many years he was an elder in the second Presbyterian church of that city. He is said to have been the first layman to make a public prayer in Pittsburgh. This occurred about 1807. At the age of fifty, through the advice of Rev. Drs. Herron and Swift, he studied theology and entered the ministry of the Presbyterian church. He preached to the Salem (Westmoreland county) and Blairsville churches till his death, in the seventy-seventh year of his age. His death occurred on the road, about half way between his residence and Salem church, where he had on that day preached and held the communion service. While Rev. George Hill was preaching the afternoon sermon, word came that the senior pastor was dead.

1 —, History of Indiana County, Pennsylvania (Newark, OH: J. A. Caldwell, 1880), Pg 366.

2 —, History of Indiana County, Pennsylvania (Newark, OH: J. A. Caldwell, 1880), Pg 367.