Dear list members, I am an administrator to several lists here at
rootsweb.com. In tracing my maternal line I have just discovered a
possible link to this family while working on the siblings of my first
great grandmother. I won't take up to much of your precious time with a
lot of details.
The line that I am working on is for my first great grandmother's
sister. Cynthia Ann Wood Smith is that person. She is the daughter of
James Wood and Ann Marie Lewis and was born in New York City 1 May 1864
then raised in Mount Vernon, Westchester County, NY from the age of 6.
I know that she had six younger siblings. The youngest daughter is the
one I want to focus on in this email.
Agnes E. Wood born 1878 in Mount Vernon married William Berrian Davis a
medical doctor. After the birth of these three children listed below
they moved to the Los Angeles area.
They had three known children:
The oldest is Willard M. Davis b. May 19, 1912, in Connecticut; d. Aug
07, 1978, Laguna Hills, Orange, CA VR.
Arthur Wood Davis, a fraternal twin born 1915 in New York and died in
Mexico City, Mexico 25 September 1959.
Catherine Davis, a fraternal twin born 1915 in New York. She married
JESSE ROYCE CHAMBLISS, son of DAVID CHAMBLISS and CLARA PEAS. He was
born Nov 28, 1912 in , California and died Jun 1968 in Salem, Marion, OR.
If I am correct I believe that Jesse Royce and Catherine (Davis)
Chambliss had a daughter Martha Ann Chambliss who may have lived in
Salem, Marion County, Oregon. Her birth year is 1938 and she may have
had a brother born in 1946. I expect that by now she is married but
hopefully this will make a connection. I can provide several
generations of ancestors to the Wood and Lewis lines and have
connections to the Davis line. Martha is my mother's second cousin and
I would certainly like to connect them since there are so few of the
Wood and Lewis descendants still living as they had few to no children.
I now know that there are only about 15 first great grandchildren left
in this big old world
Daniel David Lewis Frommherz
(541) 747-4481.