The Davis family went to California in 1853, where Mr. Davis died.

The evidence

• “Davis and wife were from New Jersey. In 1853 they went to California, where he died, leaving consider-”

  1908-brown-rock-county/31-smaller-cities-villages-towns.md, Vol. 2, PDF p. 145 / book p. 653

  Brown, William Fiske, editor. Rock County, Wisconsin: A New History of Its Cities, Villages, Towns, Citizens and Varied Interests, from the Earliest Times, Up to Date. Chicago: C. F. Cooper & Co., 1908. 2 vols. archive.org/details/rockcountywiscon01brow, archive.org/details/rockcountywiscon02brow.

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