DAVISON Clara A.

Daniel married RICHARDS Sarah on 01 Mar 1866. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Died:
Interment: Apr 1902 Minonk Cemetery, Minonk , Woodford Co., IL
Obituary: He died at the residence of his oldest son, Edmond S. Davison at Denton, Nebraska, April 24, 1902 and was buried in the Minonk Cemetery. He also had a second wife, Aunt Larissa ____, who died at Minonk, IL, at age 82 years, 8 months, and 24 days. They had no children.

Norman married WAIT Adelia on 11 Dec 1836. Adelia was born on 24 Sep 1819; died on 24 Aug 1881 in Minonk, Woodford Co., IL. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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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]