Life History

Notes

• Missouri Marriage Records, 1805-2002
  Miss Eliza Jenkins
  Marriage 18 Dec 1870 Waverly, Lafayette County
  Spouse Name Mr John Tilford Davis
  Performed by Ed M Gantis, Minister
  Filed and Recorded 7 January 1871
  
  After Eliza's death he married a couple of years later, to Sarah Emma Guess.  They later moved to Oklahoma.
  
  John Tilford & Sarah Emma (Guess) Davis
  Mooreland Cemetery
  Married 04 Jul 1889 in St John, Stafford, KS
  --  Oklahoma Cemeteries, Mooreland Cemtery, Woodward County, Oklahoma, http://www.okcemeteries.net/woodward/mooreland/davisjtse.htm
  
  The Woodward cemtery burial record has the full dates of birth and death.  His grave has only the year of birth and death, but these match with exact dates in undocumented genealogies.
  
  DAVIS   John Tilford Sr 01 Sep 1851     09 Feb 1939     h/o Emma
  DAVIS   Sarah Emma {Guess}  15 Mar 1856 06 Feb 1938     w/o John Sr
  --  Oklahoma Cemeteries, Mooreland Cemetery, Woodward County, Oklahoma, http://www.okcemeteries.net/woodward/mooreland/mooreland.htm
  
  Note that the date of death here is 9 Feb 1939.  09 Feb 1939.  Genealogies say 7 Feb 1939.  Could the 9th be the date of burial reather than the date of death?
  
  John T. Davis, Sr
  Birth 1851
  Death 1939
  Burial Mooreland Cemetery, Mooreland, Woodward County, Oklahoma
  Created by Neville Wilson Apr 24, 2014
  --  Find A Grave Memorial #128496368, http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GSln=Davis&GSiman=1&GScid=98978&GRid=128496368&

Sources

• 1. Find a Grave Memorial Registry
• 2. Oklahoma Cemeteries
• 3. Find a Grave Memorial Registry
  • Full name, birth, death, marriages, burial location
• 4. Missouri Marriage Records, 1805-2002
• 5. Gravestone of Eliza Jenkins Aubry Cemetery, Aubry, Johnson County, Kansas
• 6. Find a Grave Memorial Registry
  • Birth, Death, married name, marriage date, spouse nameburial location