ID: I1913
Name: Virgina Lafayette Davis
Given Name: Virgina Lafayette
Surname: Davis
Nickname: Jennie, Virgie
Sex: F
Change Date: 2 Jan 2009
Note: Her father, Captain George Davis, a sea captain, took her brothers, Byron and Raymond, around the world in 1849-1851 (in San Francisco during gold rush days), aboard S/V Hampton, and her with her step-sister to Germany aboard the Bark Diana, seeing Alexander II, Emperor of Russia, 27 June 1857 in Hamburg.
George is buried in Princeton Arkansas next to their first born son Clyde Leslie, but also has a monument in Cushing Maine. Her brother Raymond (visited her in Little Rock 1872) was the longest setting and most innovative librarian University of Michigan has ever had (1877-1906), another a sea captain and third an architect who served the Union during Civil War. http://files.usgwarchives.org/me/knox/history/letters/ofaplace2ms.txt
Her ancestors trace back to at least three Mayflower pilgrims; John Hopkins, William Brewster and William Bradford, second signer of Mayflower Compact.
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Birth: 19 JUN 1834 in Cushing, Knox County, Maine
Note: When Virginia was born, Cushing was in Lincoln County.
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Death: 17 AUG 1886 in Fayetteville, Washington County, Arkansas 2
Burial: Evergreen Cemetery, Fayetteville, Washington County, Arkansas
Note: She is buried in Lot 144.
Census: 1880, age 45 Fayetteville, Washington County, Arkansas 3
Occupation: teacher at the Arkansas Industrial University 1880 Fayetteville, Washington County, Arkansas
Note: Virginia's 1863-1865 diary was published in 1983 in The Arkansas Historical Quarterly spring and summer issues. Her materials were turned over to Special Collections at University of Arkansas summer of 2005 (MC-1618) by a second great granddaughter. She was AIU's 1st Chair of what now is Art Dept 1874-1881, her painting of their new University Hall (now Old main) given in 1877 to the Board of Trustees (now lost), the building opening September 1875 with her assigned the 2nd floor Clock Tower, Oliver a nice large 1st floor room according to her Oct 1875 letter (we have some forty letters, 1857 to 1886). She died of cancer 17 August 1886, in respect, all business houses in Fayetteville closing their doors during her services.
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Father: George Davis b: 21 DEC 1798 in Cushing, Knox County, Maine
Mother: Catherine Young b: 19 SEP 1804 in Cushing, Knox County, Maine
Marriage 1
Oliver Crosby Gray b: 30 DEC 1832 in Lincoln County, Maine
- Married:
28 MAY 1858
in Cushing, Knox County, Maine 4
Children
 Clyde Leslie Gray b: 19 FEB 1859 in Minnesota Carl Raymond Gray b: 28 SEP 1867 in Princeton, Dallas County, Arkansas- Ethel Davis Gray b: 6 DEC 1871 in Arkansas
Sources:
- Abbrev: Flora Family Tree
Title: Flora Family Tree, self published by William S. Boggess, Naples, Florida (billboggess@webtv.net)a (billboggess@webtv.net)a (billboggess@webtv.net).
Quality: 2
- Abbrev: RootsWeb World Connect Project
Title: RootsWeb World Connect Project
Text: Title: Fremont, New Hampshire, Town Report 1893
Author: Vital Statistics, Births, Marriages & Deaths registered
Quality: 2
Page: Kathy Martineau
- Abbrev: Census Record
Title: Census Record
Page: 1880 Census: Fayetteville, Washington County, Arkansas, e.d. 215, page 15, lines 13-16, F 83, 8 June
- Abbrev: Flora Family Tree
Title: Flora Family Tree, self published by William S. Boggess, Naples, Florida (billboggess@webtv.net)a (billboggess@webtv.net)a (billboggess@webtv.net).
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