James Franklin Davison and Lucinda A. Matthews

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Husband James Franklin Davison ^{1 2}

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           Born: 16 Jun 1836 - Plum Twp, Venango Co, PA 1 2
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           Died: 30 Mar 1918
         Buried:  - Sunville Cemetery, Sunville, Plum Twp, Venango Co, PA 3

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         Father: John Davison (1803-1875/1876) 1 2
         Mother: Eliza Weakley (1810-1853)

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       Marriage: 18 Jan 1860 1 4

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Wife Lucinda A. Matthews ¹

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            AKA: Lucinda Mathers 4
           Born: 14 Feb 1838
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           Died: 14 Apr 1927
         Buried:  - Sunville Cemetery, Sunville, Plum Twp, Venango Co, PA 3

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         Father: Samuel Matthews (cal 1801-1864)
         Mother: Louisa Ambrose (1804-1885) 5

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Children

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1 F Lettie L. Davison

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            AKA: Lottie L. Davison 4
           Born: 27 May 1862
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           Died: 11 Jan 1946
         Buried:  - Sunville Cemetery, Sunville, Plum Twp, Venango Co, PA 3

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2 F Elma Elizabeth Davison ^{4 6}

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           Born: 25 Apr 1866 - Cooperstown, Jackson Twp, Venango Co, PA 6
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           Died: 19 Oct 1958 6
         Buried:  - Small Cemetery, Jackson Twp, Venango Co, PA

         Spouse: Frederick Rufus Bumpus (1859-1926) 6
           Marr: 19 Apr 1888 - ? Venango Co, PA 6

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3 M Fred H. Davison ⁴

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4 F Annie Belle Davison ⁴

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General Notes: Husband - James Franklin Davison

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He received his education at the township schools and followed farming. In 1862 he enlisted in Company E, Sixteenth Pennsylvania Cavalry, in which he served until the close of the war. He was taken prisoner March 31, 1865, at Dinwiddie Court House, Virginia, and held until Lee’s surrender. He was a stanch Republican, and was school director, township auditor, and commissioner. He was a member of Union Veteran Union, No. 10, of Chapmanville, also of Andrew Jackson Post, No. 199, G. A. R., of Cooperstown, and was an elder of the Presbyterian church of Sunville. Beginning July 1, 1889, he conducted the United States mail route from Bradleytown to Franklin in connection with his farm duties.

On the 22d, of September, 1862, he enlisted in the 16th P. V. C., and was discharged June 16, 1865. Was engaged in about eighteen battles, some of the most important of which were, Chancellorsville, Alden, Upperville, Gettysburg, The Wilderness, Spotsylvania, Richmond, and others.

1 J. H. Newton, History of Venango County, Pennsylvania (Columbus, OH: J. A. Caldwell Publishers, 1879), Pg 631.

2 —, History of Venango County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: Brown, Runk, & Co., Publishers, 1890), Pg 1054.

3 Venango County Historical Society, Venango County Pennsylvania Cemetery Records and Early Church Histories, Vol. 8, Plum Township (Franklin, PA: Venango County Historical Society, 2000), Pg 62.

4 —, History of Venango County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: Brown, Runk, & Co., Publishers, 1890), Pg 1055.

5 Charles A. Babcock, Venango County, Pennsylvania, Her Pioneers and People (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1919), Pg 1084.

6 Jeff McBride, Decendancy of Edouad Bompasse and Wife Hannah (Laurel, Md: Web-published, 2012).