Hi all. Here's another bio on another Henry Co. family which came from A Persi
article.
Aquila DAVIS was born in Jonesville, OH, December 6, 1813, a son of Aquila and Lucretia
(Hatfield) Davis, his father a native of Virginia and his mother of Pennsylvania. In 1826
his parents came to Henry Co., IN, and settled in what was called Rich Woods, Fall Creek
Township, where his father died in 1850 and his mother some years later. They were the
parents of nine children. Aquila was reared on the home farm but the family being large,
when quite a young man he went to work for Samuel HOWARD remaining with him some six
years. He then came to New Castle and remained two years and while here was married to
Linne HARVEY, August 1, 1833. Soon after his marriage he moved into the woods and cleared
a farm three miles north of New Castle. The first eighty acres of land he bought was paid
for with money he saved from two years wages at $150.00 a year. He sold this in a short
time for $450.00 and bought 180 acres on which he lived and reared his family. In the
fall of 1879!
he moved to New Castle, having rented his farm. Mrs. Davis died in August 1879, leaving
six children: Armita (wife of Matthew MILLIKAN), Harvey, Reason, Viretta (wife of Henry
B. HERNLEY), Sylvester, and Mark. In 1881Aquila Davis married Minerva, widow of William
ABBOTT. She died Dec. 25, 1883. Mr. DAVIS was a strong Union man and Republican. He was
always strictly temperate never having used liquor or tobacco in any form.
Rex Bertram
PO Box 651
Redkey, IN 47373
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