1820 - 1908

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• Birth	5 Feb 1820	Quacco New Brunswick, Nova Scotia   [1, 2]
  Gender	Male
  Buried	Mar 1908	Holt County, Nebraska   [1, 2]
  Died	5 Mar 1908	Atkinson, Holt County, Nebraska   [1, 2]
  Person ID	I97676	Brainard (Brainerd) / Foster / Fish
  Last Modified	20 Oct 2005 00:00:00
  Father	William DAVIS, b. Aug 1796, Gaspereau, Horton's Landing, Kings, Nova Scotia
  Mother	Philandra Amelia Hannah BISHOP, b. 4 Feb 1799, Horton, Kings County, Nova Scotia
  Family ID	F42584	Group Sheet
  Family	Arina Kincaid WYMAN, b. 18 Dec 1834, Solon, Somerset County, Maine
  Married	1854	Solon, Somerset, Maine   [1, 2]
  Children	> 1. Arina Phylinda DAVIS, b. 11 Mar 1856, Davenport, Scott County, Iowa > 2. James W. DAVIS, b. 19 Jan 1859, Chester, Wabasha County, Minnesota > 3. Ellen (Nellie) Amelia DAVIS, b. Jul 1861, Chester, Wabasha County, Minnesota > 4. Lena Leota DAVIS, b. 1863, Chester, Wabasha County, Minnesota > 5. Evelena K. DAVIS, b. 27 Dec 1864, Chester, Wabasha County, Minnesota > 6. Robert N. DAVIS, b. 10 Jan 1867, Chester, Wabasha County, Minnesota > 7. Elizabeth Mae DAVIS, b. Oct 1869, Chester, Wabasha County, Minnesota > 8. Gilbert Rinaldo DAVIS, b. 12 Nov 1871, Mazeppa, Wabasha County, Minnesota > 9. Gilman Vivalde DAVIS, b. 12 Nov 1871, Chester, Wabasha County, Minnesota   10. Julia Etta DAVIS, b. 8 Jan 1874, Chester, Wabasha County, Minnesota > 11. Amy Ann DAVIS, b. 15 Jun 1876, Horton, Kings, County, Nova Scotia   12. Jettie Enid DAVIS, b. 10 Apr 1878, Atkinson, Holt County, Nebraska   13. Ira Emery DAVIS, b. 2 Apr 1881, Atkinson, Holt County, Nebraska
  Family ID	F42683	Group Sheet

• Notes

  James Anderson Davis was the first of his family to immigrate to America from Nova Scotia. Sometime after his arrival he met Arianna Wyman. They married in 1854 in Solon, Maine. It seems James wanted to stayed close to parent's & siblings as the migrated about America. Eventually the Davis clan joined a wagon train and landed in Bear Valley, Wabasha County, Minnesota where the family patriarch William Davis died in 1864. According to family writings, "His brother Miner once said, 'I never knew my brother Jim until we came to the states. He was older, grew up first and was the first to come.' Also records show that he was married in Solon, Maine to Arina Wyman who was born on December 18, 1834 in Maine. He did it seems, migrate to Minnesota with the rest of the family, and made his home on a farm. They [then] came by covered wagon to the Atkinson, Nebraska area on November 12, 1878, homesteaded a farm and lived southwest of Atkinson until their retirement to a home in Atkinson. In] the same block were the homes of Robert Lumsden and Walter Armstrong. Here they lived the remainder of their lives with their daughter Jettie and their son Ira. They were known to all of their relatives as Uncle Jim and Aunt Riny." I have seen copies of this excerpt written in so many places I cannot attribute the writing to it's author *Note; According to the Wyman family records, the only available record of a Arina Wyman's birth on December 18, 1834 in Maine indicates her name was Arianna.

• Sources

  [S755] William Harrison Spicer.FTW. Date of Import: Jul 29, 2001 [S65] Spicer Family File.FTW. Date of Import: Jul 30, 2001