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^[[3]] [[newspaper clipping]] Sarah Ann Davis, a daughter of Jacob and Prudence Maxson Davis, was the second wife of Mansfield McWhorter, twelfth of seventeen children of Walter and Margaret McWhorter. They were married September 11, 1856. Mansfield McWhorter was a member of the historic family of the name. Mansfield McWhorter was a Methodist Episcopal minister and served sixteen years as a magistrate. He died at Phillippi, where he moved in his old age. Talitha W. Davis, a daughter of Jacob and Sarah Hoffman Davis, was married to James Ford. She was a relative of Mrs. Lucian D. Lowther, of Salem. She died January 2, 1900. James Ball Davis, youngest member of the family of the Rev. Jacob and Prudence Maxson Davis, became a Seventh Day Baptist preacher, and followed farming and wagon making. When a young man, he went to Ohio and May 5, 1835, married Jane Hopping at Dayton, O. She was a daughter of Moses and Nannie Cunningham Hopping and was born near Dayton September 1, 1811. She died February 1, 1853, at Jackson Center, O., where the family had moved in 1850. Their children were: William Henry Harrison Davis, born May 3, 1831 at Dayton, O., and married Margaret Jane Morris, a daughter of Benjamin and "Polly" Van Horn Morris and sister of the late Walter M. Morris, of Mount Clare; Abner J., born January 1, 1836, at Dayton, and married Lydia Bee, a daughter of Amaziah and Rhoda Davis Bee. Granville Hopping Davis, born January 2, 1839, at Jackson Center, O., as were the rest of the children, and married Minerva Randolph, a daughter of Zepthia and Deborah Sutton Randolph, son of William and Mary Davis RandolphForsyth Davis, born August 31, 1843; Elizabeth Jane, born April 10, 1846, and married to the Rev. Lewis F. Randolph, son of William and Mary Davis Randolph; Moses Hoffman Davis, born July 14, 1848, and married Mary Ellen Douglass; and Augustus Jones Davis, born July 26, 1852, and died May 5, 1857. First Sermon Sent as a delegate from the Northampton church in 1840 to the association meeting of the Salem church, James Ball Davis went to the home of John Sutton on Greenbrier creek as a guest and preached his first accredited sermon while there. After the death of his wife, the Rev. James Ball Davis visited West Virginia, met Emily Virginia Davis, a daughter of William "Flint" and Rachel Hughes Davis and married her February 9, 1854. They lived at New Milton, beginning in 1857, and he became pastor of the Middle Island church in 1867. His return to West Virginia was to give his wife and himself the benefit of its hilly clime. He died July 2, 1902, at Salem. His second wife, born August 27, 1826, near Salem but in Doddridge county, died September 17, 1904, at Salem. William "Flint" Davis was a lineal descendant of the first William. Emily Virginia Davis was bookkeeper for her mother from the age of 16 to 28 years and twelve years without a mother looked after a family of five children younger than herself. When she was married in 1854, she entered a household of seven children of her husband's first wife and reared seven of her own to adult life. Her husband was a Republican and she leaned that way, although not having the franchise privilege. The children of James Ball Davis and Emily Virginia Davis were born as follows: Lodowick Hughes Davis, December 5, 1854, at Jackson Center, Ohio, and died March 19, 1855; Anderson Hamilton Davis, October 7, 1855, at Jackson Center; Virginius Sevnida, May 23, 1857, at Jackson Center; Viola Cerena, January 1, 1860, at New Milton, Doddridge county, was married September 27, 1884, to George H. Trainer, and is a member of the Daughters of the American Revolution; Ora James, August 27, 1861, at New Milton; Alversa May, January 17, 1863, at New Milton; Alversa May January 17, 1863, at New Milton; Amelius Grantham, October 17, 1864; and Lilly Fatima, October 31, 1865 at New Milton Mrs. Rachel Hughes Davis, grandmother of this set of children, was a daughter of Jonathan Hughes, Indian scout and Revolutionary soldier. She and her husband, William "Flint" Davis, were the parents of Dudley Hughes Davis, late Quiet Dell Bard. Granville H. Davis of the first set of children of the Rev. James B. Davis served as a Union soldier in the Civil war. He was the father of the late Hannibal H. Davis, Clarksburg jeweler. Obediah Davis, an older brother of the Rev. James Ball Davis, also went to Ohio and settled there. Son of a Pioneer Jacob Davis, son of Jacob the second, married Sarah Davis, a daughter of the Rev. John Davis 11, grandson of the first Rev. John, who was a son of the pioneer, William Davis. Jesse Maxson Davis, a brother of Orlando Davis' father, married Abigail Hoffman, a daughter of Moses and Mary Ann Ailes Hoffman, January 8, 1822. She was born September 6, 1801, and died November 12, 1863. One of their sons, Edgar S. Davis, born May 4, 1841, and died January 10, 1906, married Jane Mearns, May 18, 1867. She was born May 8, 1843 at Lost Creek and died November 7, 1919. Their children, all born in Harrison county, included Stella, Ernest, Genevieve and Earl W. Davis, who was born September 27, 1876 at Lost Creek, and married Candance Lowther, a daughter of Johnson J. and Rachel Lowther, May 18, 1904. She was born December 3, 1878, at New Milton. Children of Mr. and Mrs. Earl W. Davis were born as follows at Salem: Miriam Lowther Davis, March 18, 1905; Eleanor Willametta Davis, October 11, 1909; Leah Virginia Davis, February 2, 1913; and Candance Carolyn, June 29, 1917. Milton S. Davis, another son of Jesse Maxson Davis, was born January 8, 1830, at Lost Creek, and was a farmer. He married Mary Ford, a daughter of Thomas and Elizabeth Dye Ford, in 1853 in Doddridge county, where she was born July 28, 1832. She died December 25, 1910, at Lost Creek. Their sons and daughters are: Elizabeth T., born January 16 1854, at Lost Creek, and was married to Elkania Drummand ; Alice V., born July 1, 1855, at Limestone, Doddridge county, and married to William Hummel, a son of Mr. and Mrs. William Hummel; Thomas A., born July 5, 1856, on Greenbrier creek, Doddridge county, and married Anna Dutch; Albert A., born December 10, 1857, and married Alice Conley, a daughter of Luck Conley; Levi B., born April 23, 1859, and married Jennie Gibbons; Harried A., born March 18, 1862, at Long run, and married to Judson Hayward; William E., Lost Creek farmer, born March 9, 1865, and married Gertrude Gardiner, a daughter of former Pres. Theodore E. Gardiner, of Salem college, and the late Emily Gardiner; and the later Mrs. Tressie M. Trainer, born July 27, 1868, at Long run, and wife of J. Edward Trainer, of Salem, a son of William and Louisa Holt Trainer. The Trainers were married December 7, 1898. Mrs. Trainer died January 6, 1832, and was buried at Lost Creek. All Born in Harrison Levi B. Davis, another son of Jesse M. Davis, was born February 22, 1836 at Lost Creek, and died June 4, 1912. He married Sarah J. Rymer, daughter of George and Virginia Matheny Rymer, in September 1860. She was born September 22, 1840, in Barbour county, and died November 15, 1860. Their eight children, Laura A., Victoria E., Althea A., Alley Okey, W., Girthea S. Warren and Ilea, were all born in Harrison county. Ilia, born September 26, 1861, was married to William F. Randolph, October 1, 1885. Other children of Jesse Maxson Davis included Jacob, born August 15, 1827, and died April 14, 1885; Elizabeth, married to Lloyd F. Randolph; Melissa, who was the wife of John F. Randolph; Moses Hoffman Davis, born February 27, 1833, and died July 16, 1891; and Belinda, wife of William Kennedy. Moses H. Davis, son of Jesse Maxson Davis and grandson of the second Rev. Jacob Davis, married Julia A. Davis, a daughter of Lodowick Hughes Davis, April 14, 1857, lived on Flint run until the death of his wife, November 12, 1861, and then returned to Lost Creek, where November 3, 1863, he married Emily V. Swisher, a daughter of Isaac and Maria Swisher. She died in 1918. Served in House Soon after West Virginia became a state, Moses Hoffman Davis served on the Harrison county board of supervisors, later as a magistrate, and in 1880 was elected to the state's House of Delegates. A leader in the church at Lost Creek, he served as deacon twenty years, and was on of the clerks of the Eastern Seventh Day Baptist Association. He died July 16, 1891. He was the father of Owen T. Davis, a Clarksburg funeral director, and of M. Berkeley Davis who is engaged in similar work at Salem. Jesse Maxson Davis dies November 10, 1871. His wife, Abigail died November 12, 1863. Samuel Davis Davis, father of Septemius Orlando Davis and son of the second Rev. Jacob Davis, first married Elizabeth Ford, a daughter of Thomas Ford, February 25, 1847. She was born in 1826 in Doddridge county and died December 9, 1851, in Harrison county. They were the parents of three sons, Septemius Orlando, born September 20, 1848; Adolphus Arden, December 3, 1851. Audolphus Arden died March 3, 1853; and Eusebiux Fernando, March 6, the same year. After the death of the mother of these children, Samual D. Davis married Rebecca Bond, a [[/newspaper clipping]]
