Davis, Isaac

DAVIS, RICHARDS, QUINN

Posted By: Connie Swearingen (email)
Date: 8/30/2007 at 01:31:08

Source: Monona County History 1890
Chicago Publisher

Isaac Davis

Isaac Davis, one of the pioneer settlers of Monona County, and still a resident upon the land which he occupied on coming here in April 1855, on section 34, in the town of Franklin, was born in Columbiana County, Ohio, May 2, 1827, and is the son of Isaac and Edith (Richards) Davis. His father, who was the son of Isaac Davis also, was a native of Virginia who had moved to Ohio in an early day, and engaged in farming. Later in life he had removed to Quincy, Adams County, Illinois, and from there to Lee County, Iowa where he died in 1839. The mother of our subject was a native of Ohio, and died in this county in August, 1866.
Mr. Davis remained at home with his mother until 1855, when he came to Monona County, and took up a claim, and has since made his home in this section of the State. He was married July 4, 1866, to Miss Jennie F. Quinn, a native of County Antrim, Ireland, whose parents are still residents of the “Emerald Isle.” By this marriage there have been nine children added to their family, who bear the following names: Edith A, Mahlon E, Jennie B, Bertha M, Maggie A, Esther R, Frances, Ruth J, and Bernard H, all of whom are still living at home.
When Mr. Davis came here he entered his land, about eighty acres, and some forty acres of timber, which has since been washed away by the river, and returned to Lee County for his sister, Esther, now the widow of Hon. Stephen Tillson. Living in this county, who accompanied him here in October