Davis (Family : Warrenton, N.C.)

found: Finding aid for Hill and Davis family papers, via UNC University Libraries WWW site, May 26, 2020(Hill and Davis families of Warrenton, N.C. Daniel Shine Hill (1812-1873), planter and son of Charles A. and Rebecca Hill, married Susan Erwin Toole (1815-1878), daughter of Geraldus Toole, a planter, and Elizabeth King Toole. Among the Hills' several daughters was Sarah Louisa Hill (1836-1931), who married Matthew S. Davis (1830-1906), head of the Louisburg Male Academy and president of its successor, Louisburg College. The Davises had six children. The oldest daughter, Florence, married Eugene S. Allen and was the mother of J. Edward Allen, author of some of the genealogical materials in the collection. The second daughter, Mary, served as president of Louisburg College from the time of her father's death in 1906 until 1918. She married Ivey Allen and was the mother of Elizabeth Allen, one of the donors of these papers. The third daughter, Mabel, never married; she served as librarian of Warren County; genealogy was a passion she shared with a remote relative, Nannie Seawell Boyd. One son, the Reverend Edward Hill Davis, served as a Methodist minister and the other son, Louisburg architect Marion Stuart Davis, married May Amanda Holmes and was the father of Sarah Davis, who is one of this collection's donors) - https://finding-aids.lib.unc.edu/04393/

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