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Henry Leland J Davis



Birth24 February 1804Knoxville, Knox, Tennessee, United States
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    "FamilySearch Family Tree," database, FamilySearch (: FamilySearch.org), entry for Henry Leland J Davis, ID: KWJK-1JK.

    Devery Scott Anderson, The Nauvoo Endowment Companies, 1845-1846: A Documentary History (Salt Lake City, Utah: Signature Books, 2005), p. 266, entry 2; citing Nauvoo Temple Endowment Register: 10 December 1845 to 8 February 1846.

    Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Sealings and adoptions of the living, 1846-1857; index, 1846-1857 (Salt Lake City, Utah: Filmed by the Genealogical Society of Utah, 1958), p. 769, FHL microfilm #183373.

Death22 October 1847Mt. Pisgah, Union, Iowa, United States
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    "FamilySearch Family Tree," database, FamilySearch (: FamilySearch.org), entry for Henry Davis, ID: KWJK-1JK.

BurialOctober 1847Mt. Pisgah Cemetery, Mt. Pisgah, Union, Iowa, United States
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    Find A Grave, database and images, memorial page for Henry Davis (1804-1847), memorial #7370995.

    "FamilySearch Family Tree," database, FamilySearch (: FamilySearch.org), entry for Henry Davis, ID: KWJK-1JK.

FatherLevi Davis
MotherLydia Kearn

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   • Rachel Hunter
Married24 November 1825Knox County, Tennessee, United States
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    Various County Clerk Offices, Tennessee, County Marriages 1790-1950 (Nashville: Tennessee State Library and Archives), database with images, FamilySearch, entry for Henry Davis and Rachel Hunter (24 Nov 1825); citing Knox County, Tennessee, County Court Clerk, “Marriage records, v. 1-5 1792-1875 [includes marriage bond 1793 and 1798 than marriage license and returns for 1800-1875]," image 55, FHL microfilm 4538916.

    Tennessee Marriages, 1796-1950, database with images, FamilySearch, entry for Henry Davis and Rachel Hunter (24 Nov 1825); citing Knox County, Tennessee, County Court Clerk, “Licenses, bonds 1823-1827," images 940-943, FHL microfilm 1205067.

          Children:
               Larkin Davis
               George Preston Davis
               James Jordan Davis
               Elizabeth Jane Davis
               Charles Washington Davis
               William Bradford Davis
               Levi Washington Davis
               Robert Houston Davis
               Joseph Webster Davis
               Julius Moses Davis
               Mary Jane Davis
               Henry Orson Davis


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• 1840Overton County, Tennessee, United States
• 1842Nauvoo, Hancock, Illinois, United States

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Baptism21 October 1839
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    Ancestry, LDS Vital Records Library (Provo, UT: Infobases, 1998)


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• 1840 Population CensusOverton County, TennesseeExtractImage


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