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DAVISON Asa Lee

Male 1850 - 1890  (39 years)


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  1. 1.  DAVISON Asa Lee was born on 21 Feb 1850 in Cuba, Allegany Co., NY (son of DAVISON Augustus Lewis); died in 1890.

    Asa married CHURCH Francis Estelle (Fanny) on 09 May 1869 in Chicago, Cook Co., IL. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

    Children:
    1. DAVISON Myrtle Estelle was born on 19 Aug 1871.
    2. DAVISON Iva Belle was born on 01 Apr 1881 in Madison, Dane Co., WI; died in 1948.

Generation: 2

  1. 2.  DAVISON Augustus Lewis was born in 1812 in Cuba, Allegany Co., NY (son of DAVISON Asa Lee and LEWIS Lydia); died on 25 Aug 1859 in Pekin, Tazewell Co., IL.
    Children:
    1. 1. DAVISON Asa Lee was born on 21 Feb 1850 in Cuba, Allegany Co., NY; died in 1890.


Generation: 3

  1. 4.  DAVISON Asa Lee was born on 03 Dec 1792 in Preston, New London Co., CT (son of DAVISON Ezra and SMITH Diedamia); died on 02 Mar 1853 in Canton, Fulton Co., IL.

    Asa married LEWIS LydiaPetersburg, Rensselaer Co., NY. Lydia was born in 1785; died in 1820. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]


  2. 5.  LEWIS Lydia was born in 1785; died in 1820.
    Children:
    1. DAVISON Olive
    2. DAVISON Helen D.
    3. DAVISON Eliza died on 10 Jun 1867 in Canton, Fulton Co., IL.
    4. 2. DAVISON Augustus Lewis was born in 1812 in Cuba, Allegany Co., NY; died on 25 Aug 1859 in Pekin, Tazewell Co., IL.
    5. DAVISON Ezra Darwin was born on 23 Jan 1818 in NY; died on 08 Jan 1877 in Minonk, Woodford Co., IL.


Generation: 4

  1. 8.  DAVISON Ezra was born on 11 Aug 1765 in Nova Scotia Co., Canada (son of DAVISON Asa and PRIDE Sarah); died on 29 Apr 1834 in Grafton, Renssealaer Co., NY.

    Notes:

    Although family tradition holds that Ezra enlisted when he was but 16, the first record of his service is his enlistment in Capt. Benjamin Durkee’s company of Matrosses, at Port Trumbull, Connecticut, August 12, 1782, his 17th birthday.

    They took up land two miles northeast of Grafton Centre. the country was then a wilderness. They built a house, cleared the land of forest, planted on archard, and built stone walls, or fences. Panthers used to steal their sheep. Bears were in the woods. There were few settlers. No Church nor School House. The first school district was organized, Sept. 13, 1813, and they voted to build a school house on a man's land, whose name was Cobb. (It was always called the Cobb's school house.) It was sixteen feet square with an entry large enough to hold a load of wood. They levied a tax of $75.00, the rest was to be paid in work. Three or four generations of Davisons studied Webster's spelling book, Daboll’s arithmetic, and the English Reader, and perhaps got punished in the Cobb’s school house.

    The first trustees were Daniel Mills, Foster Reynolds, and Bradick Peekham, Jr., moderator, Elisha Wells, Clerk Daniel Mills. A great many prominent men were educated in the Cobb's school house. About 1842, Van Ransellaer, the Patron, offered a set of outline maps, to the best school in Grafton, to be examined by a committee at the Church in Grafton Centre. We carried home the maps and were justly proud of it. I visited the spot in 1889. Found nothing but the foundation stones and thickly grownup weeds and brush. (A. A. Davison)

    Ezra lived and raised his family on what we call the “Old Davison Homestead.”

    Ezra married SMITH Diedamia on 24 May 1790 in Argyle, Penobscot Co., ME. Diedamia was born in 1774; died in 1853. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]


  2. 9.  SMITH Diedamia was born in 1774; died in 1853.
    Children:
    1. 4. DAVISON Asa Lee was born on 03 Dec 1792 in Preston, New London Co., CT; died on 02 Mar 1853 in Canton, Fulton Co., IL.
    2. DAVISON Lois was born about 1795 in Westerly, Washington Co., RI; died on 04 Nov 1834 in Grafton, Renssealaer Co., NY.
    3. DAVISON Sarah was born on 01 Jun 1796; died in Ashford, Cattaraugus Co., NY.
    4. DAVISON Reuben S. was born on 10 Feb 1802 in Alfred, Allegany Co., NY; died in Jul 1921 in Alfred, Allegany Co., NY.
    5. DAVISON Daniel P.M. was born on 25 May 1804 in Grafton, Renssealaer Co., NY; died on 08 Jan 1844 in Grafton, Renssealaer Co., NY.
    6. DAVISON Paul K. was born on 01 Jan 1807 in Grafton, Renssealaer Co., NY; died in 1884 in Troy, Rensselaer Co., NY.
    7. DAVISON John Milton was born on 14 Sep 1811 in Grafton, Renssealaer Co., NY; died on 19 Mar 1895 in Minonk, Woodford Co., IL.
    8. DAVISON Rowland (Squire) was born on 26 Oct 1813 in Grafton, Renssealaer Co., NY; died on 08 Apr 1867 in Minonk, Woodford Co., IL.
    9. Sr. Norman Lewis Davison was born on 26 Jul 1817 in Grafton, Renssealaer Co., NY; died on 24 Apr 1902 in Denton, Lancaster Co., NE.