Wednesday's Child: Cora V. Davis

Wednesday’s Child is one of the daily blogging prompts at Geneabloggers that features gravestones of children. 

from Findagrave
photo by Jan Hensley

Cora V.

Daughter of

J. P. & Elizabeth

DAVIS

June 20, 1891

July 12, 1892

Cora V. Davis was my first cousin twice removed, daughter of Josiah and Elizabeth Frances Powell Davis.  Cora lived a short time past her first birthday.  She is buried in Elk Run Cemetery in Elkton, Virginia along with her parents and other family members.

If I am reading the photo correctly, the tombstone is adorned with an ascending dove symbolizing that the soul has gone to heaven.  Holding an olive branch means that the soul has reached divine peace.

Behind Cora’s tombstone is that of her sister Mary F. who also died as an infant.

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Tombstone Tuesday: Josiah P. Davis

Tombstone Tuesday is a daily prompt at Geneabloggers which asks bloggers to create a post including an image of a gravestone of one or more ancestors; it may also include a brief description of the image or the ancestor.

from Findagrave
photo by Jan Hensley

DAVIS

FATHER

Josiah P.

June 29, 1856

Aug 28, 1924

MOTHER

Elizabeth F.

Oct 25, 1861

May 8, 1944

Josiah P. Davis was my great granduncle, brother to my great-grandfather Walter Davis.  He married Elizabeth Frances Powell on November 30, 1879 in Rockingham County, Virginia. They had ten children, but two died in infancy. He farmed in the county most of his life.  In his later years, he and his wife lived with their daughter Annie Manspeaker in Martinsburg, West Virginia, where they both died.  They are buried in Elk Run Cemetery in Elkton, Virginia.

Searching for Josiah in census records is challenging.  Sometimes he is listed as Josiah and sometimes as Joseph.  His wife alternates between Lizzie and Fannie.  

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