Montgomery County PA Archives Biographies.....Davis, Jesse B. November 9, 1849 - 
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Source: Biographical Annals of Montgomery County Pennsylvania, T. S. Benham & Company and the Lewis Publishing Company, 1904
Author: Ellwood Roberts, Editor

  JESSE M. DAVIS was born November 9, 1849, on the homestead 
in Plymouth township. He is the son of Francis and Catherine 
(Hellings) Davis. Francis Davis (father) was born December 
18, 1810, being the son of Samuel and Mary (Diehl) Davis. He 
received a common-school education at Sandy Hill and spent 
his life on the McAillough farm in Plymouth township, which 
farm he owned. In politics he was a Republican. 

  On December 3, 1835, he married Catherine Hellings and 
they had five children. Catherine Hellings was born July 14, 
1817. The mother died May 24, 1883. Francis Davis died 
October, 1886. His children were: Mary Ann, born October 11, 
1836, and died in 1876; Samuel, born July 17, 1839; Susanna, 
born July 16, 1842; Margaret, born April 29, 1847; and Jesse 
M. Mary Ann married, on January 21, 1858, David Zell, they 
having three children, Meredith, Howard (deceased) and 
Frank. Samuel married, on February 11, 1864, Lidie Mitchell, 
they having two children, Edward and William. Susanna, 
deceased, married on January 31, 1868, Henry Hentz, they 
having two children, Kate and Mary (married Arthur Hile). 
Margaret married Charles Alvin Cox, they having the 
following children: Charles, who married Kate Schofield; 
Frank, who married Annie Donnehower; Bertha; Wilson, who 
married Miss Jackson.

  Samuel Davis (grandfather) was born August 13, 1783, and 
died May 19, 1822. He was a soldier in the war of 1812 and 
for that was turned out of the Friends church. He married 
Mary Diehl and had four children: Thomas, Mary Ann, Susanna 
and Francis. His sister, Mary Ann, married David Harry.

  Thomas Davis (great-grandfather) was born August 9, 1756, 
and married Lydia White. His brother William was born March 
25, 1854.

  Samuel Davis (great-great-grandfather) was born in 1710 in 
Wales, England. He married Jane Reese, May 24, 1736, and 
later Susanna Hughes, in 1753, in Plymouth township. The 
children of his second wife were Thomas and William.

  Jesse Davis has spent all his life on the homestead. He 
went to school at Cold Point. When the Fifty-first Regiment 
of Norristown was home on a furlough during the Civil war he 
tried to join as a drummer boy but failed to be sworn in as 
did the rest of his companions bent on the same mission. He 
is a grain farmer and a fruit raiser, making truck-raising a 
specialty. He attends the Philadelphia market. He is an 
ardent Republican but has never sought or held office. On 
March 31, 1880, he married Kate L. Klander of Roxborough, 
daughter of George and Kate Klander. They have three 
children: Jessie K., born July 19, 1884; Clara L., born July 
16, 1888; and Georgetta L., born June 16, 1890.

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