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Joseph Davis

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Joseph Davis
d. 19 July 1879, Butler County, Kansas

m. 30 July 1848, White County, Indiana
Nancy Minerva Janes
b. 3 March 1830, Virginia, to George and [–?–] Janes
d. 14 September 1904, Lafayette, Tippecanoe County, Indiana

Children with Nancy Minerva Janes:

Joseph served in Company D, 63rd Regiment, Indiana Volunteers, and Company K, 116th Indiana Volunteers during the Civil War. According to the family stories, he was a prisoner of war at Andersonville. Joseph W. Davis died in Kansas of a service-connected disability. His wife Nancy died in the home of her daughter, Mrs. William Pitts, in Lafayette, Indiana. She is buried with her husband in Butler County, Kansas.

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Joseph R. Williams
Helena MT

Harriett Ann Davis

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Harriett Ann Davis
b. Indiana, to Joseph W. and Nancy Minerva (Janes) Davis

m. 7 February 1873, Monticello, White County, Indiana
George S. Stocks

In 1876 the Stocks moved to Butler County, Kansas, taking Harriett’s younger brothers, John and Joseph Arthur, with them. The Stocks family then moved on to Oklahoma Territory, where they took another homestead.

About ten years after the Stocks moved to Kansas, Joseph and Nancy Minerva (Janes) Davis also emigrated from Indiana to Butler County, Kansas.

Submitted by:
Joseph R. Williams
Helena MT