Sylvester Davis and Martha A. Pew

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Husband Sylvester Davis ^{1 2}

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           Born: 17 May 1840 - Summerville, Jefferson Co, PA 3
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         Father: Othneil Davis (1812-      ) 1 2
         Mother: Anna Hetrick (1822-      ) 4 5

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       Marriage: 29 May 1865 6

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Wife Martha A. Pew ⁶

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           Born: Abt 1845
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         Father: Matthew Pew (      -      ) 6
         Mother: Martha Richards (      -      ) 6

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Children

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1 F Anna Belle Davis ⁶

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         Spouse: H. W. McFadden (      -      ) 6

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2 F Violetta Davis ⁶

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         Spouse: Did Not Marry

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3 F Elizabeth Davis ⁶

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         Spouse: Harvy Wingard (      -      ) 6

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4 M Ambrose Davis ⁶

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         Spouse: Rena Schoffner (      -      ) 6

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5 F Effie Davis ⁶

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         Spouse: Frank Fawsett (      -      ) 6

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6 M Blaine Davis ⁶

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         Spouse: Christina Cook (      -      ) 6

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7 M Harry Davis ⁶

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         Spouse: Rosie Patterson (      -      ) 6

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General Notes: Husband - Sylvester Davis

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He remained at home until he reached his majority, helping to clear up the farm and working in the woods, cutting and hauling timber, making rafts, and running the rivers in the springtime. He was in the employ of the principal operators, and until he was twenty-one turned his wages over to his father, as many a dutiful son did in that day. Then he began to work for Enoch Hall, hauling goods from the mouth of the Mahoning to Brookville, where Mr. Hall had a store, and also to a lumber camp near Shadagee (later called Knoxdale). After a year with Mr. Hall he took employment with Isaac Carrier, of Richardsville, doing farm work in the summer and lumbering in the winter, and remained with him until he enlisted for the Union service during the Civil war. He was mustered in at Harrisburg Aug. 14, 1862, as a member of Company B (Capt. R. J. Espy), 135th Regiment, Pennsylvania Volunteers, and served with that command until May 24, 1863, for about six months on provost duty at Washington and Georgetown, D. C. He was also in the second battle at Fredericksburg and in the operations on the Rapidan. On Sept. 16, 1864, he reenlisted, joining Company L, 14th Pennsylvania Cavalry, with which he served under Sheridan in the Shenandoah Valley, in the pursuit of Early, though he was principally in the quartermaster's department during his second enlistment. He was in actual service for nearly two years during the war, and was never wounded or captured nor in a hospital. When the war closed he was stationed near Washington and received his final discharge May 31, 1865. In 1864 Mr. Davis bought a farm in Polk township, Jefferson County, from Matthew Humphrey, of Richardsville, 170 acres, only fifty acres then improved. The part upon which the buildings were located was entirely in the woods at that time. He began lumbering on his return from military service, and continued that business until about 1912, sometimes jobbing, but usually cutting his own timber, buying land and clearing it, and then selling it for agricultural purposes. Thus he began improvements on several farms, mainly in Polk township. He built a mill on his home place and sawed large quantities of lumber. selling to other operators and often running rafts to Pittsburgh, starting either on the Clarion river, six miles from his home, or from the North Fork, which drained Polk township. His cuttings amounted to millions of feet, including considerable square timber, and he employed from ten to twenty men in the woods and mill. Mr. Davis also had extensive agricultural interests, having developed eight or ten farms of about one hundred acres each, in Polk and Warsaw townships, and retained the ownership of four valuable farms, his home place, another a mile distant, one at Lake City, Elk County, and another at Brockwayville, all of which he operated. His leading crop was hay, and he also raised large quantities of oats, wheat, corn, buckwheat, etc. He was starting a herd of Berkshire hogs, and had a fine flock of full-blooded Leghorn chickens. For fifty years or more Mr. Davis kept a store at Schoffners Corners, and for forty years he was postmaster at that point.
The land upon which the Greenbrier Methodist Episcopal Church stood was donated by him, and he helped to start this church. Though he never joined the Grand Army he kept in close touch with his army comrades and their interests. He enjoyed fishing in the streams in his locality, but he never hunted, even in the early days, when all kinds of game abounded.
He provided generously for the early education and training of his children, and gave each one a thousand dollars to start life when they attained the age of twenty-one years.

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General Notes: Wife - Martha A. Pew

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from Warsaw Twp, Jefferson Co, PA

1 Editor, Commemorative Biographical Record of Central Pennsylvania, Including the Counties of Centre, Clearfield, Jefferson and Clarion (Chicago: J. H. Beers & Co., 1898), Pg 633.

2 Editor, Jefferson County, Pennsylvania, Her Pioneers and People, Vol. II (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Company, 1917), Pg 133.

3 Editor, Jefferson County, Pennsylvania, Her Pioneers and People, Vol. II (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Company, 1917), Pg 134.

4 Editor, Commemorative Biographical Record of Central Pennsylvania, Including the Counties of Centre, Clearfield, Jefferson and Clarion (Chicago: J. H. Beers & Co., 1898), Pg 633, 1621.

5 Editor, Jefferson County, Pennsylvania, Her Pioneers and People, Vol. II (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Company, 1917), Pg 133, 281.

6 Editor, Jefferson County, Pennsylvania, Her Pioneers and People, Vol. II (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Company, 1917), Pg 135.