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             Husband: William Hart DAVIS (1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11)
                Born: 10 MAR 1829 in Oxford, New Haven, CT (12 13 14 15)
             Married: 18 MAR 1855 (65)
                Died: 07 SEP 1903 in Oxford, New Haven, CT (16)
              Buried: 09 SEP 1903 in St. Peters Episcopal Cemetery, Oxford, New Haven, CT (17 18 19)
              Father: John DAVIS
              Mother: Laura RIGGS
             Spouses: Catherine Maria FAIRCHILD
                Wife: Francis J. MALLETT (20 21 22 23)
                Born: 18 JUN 1837 in Trumbull, Fairfield, CT (24 25 26)
                Died: 15 MAY 1872 in Oxford, New Haven, CT (27 28)
              Buried: 16 MAY 1872 in St. Peters Episcopal Cemetery, Oxford, New Haven, CT (29 30 31)
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Children
01               (F): Lucy Aldane DAVIS (32 33 34)
                Born: 05 JUL 1856 in Oxford, New Haven, CT (35)
                Died: 13 JUN 1875 in Oxford, New Haven, CT (36 37)
             Spouses: Frederick Catlin CANDEE
02               (M): William Otis DAVIS (38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48)
                Born: 22 OCT 1857 in Oxford, New Haven, CT (49 50)
                Died: 1912 (51)
             Spouses: Hattie A. BENHAM
03               (M): George McClellan DAVIS (52 53 54)
                Born: l 1862 in Oxford, New Haven, CT
                Died:
             Spouses: Fannie LENOX
04               (M): Isaac Beecher DAVIS
                Born: 22 MAY 1864 in Oxford, New Haven, CT (55 56 57)
          Christened: 22 MAY 1866 in St. Peters Episcopal Church, Oxford, New Haven, CT (58)
                Died: 22 MAY 1870 in Oxford, New Haven, CT (59 60 61 62)
              Buried: in St. Peters Episcopal Cemetery, Oxford, New Haven, CT (63 64)
             Spouses:

Footnotes

  1. George T. Davis, Genealogy of the Davis Descendants of Colonel John Davis of Oxford, Conn. (New Rochelle, N. Y., 1910), 256.
    [Chestnut Tree Hill.]
  2. The Diaries of Laura Davis 1856-1857.
    [He is the "Uncle Hart" mentioned many times in the diaries.
    http://www.our-oxford.info/diaries/Laura_Davis-1856-1857/Laura_Davie-1856-57.html.]
  3. 1850 Oxford Census.
    Farmer.
  4. 1860 Oxford Census.
    Hart Davis / Farmer.
  5. 1870 Oxford Census.
    Wm Hart / Farmer.
  6. 1880 Oxford Census.
    Clerk in grocery.
    [Living w/ son William.]
  7. 1900 Oxford Census.
    [Living w/ son William.]
  8. Elijah B. Treat’s Diary for 1869 (Transcribed by Dorothy A. DeBisschop).
    [ Hart was about twenty years older than Elijah, but they both lived on Chestnut Tree Hill Road for most, if not all their lives. Hart is mentioned numerous times in both of Elijah's diaries.
    http://www.our-oxford.info/Elijah_B__Treat_-_1869_Diary.html.]
  9. Elijah B. Treat’s Diary for 1873 (Transcribed by Dorothy A. DeBisschop).
    [http://www.our-oxford.info/eb-treat-1873.html.]
  10. B. H. Davis, Reminiscences of Oxford Homes and People (Seymour Record - 1913), Chapter 1.
    The youngest son, Wm. H. Davis, was born in 1831. He lived on the old farm most of his life. He married for his first wife Frances Mailett of Trumbull and had two sons and one daughter.
    [http://www.our-oxford.info/davis-reminiscences/davis-01.html.]
  11. Ibid., Chapter 10.
    Continuing our journey up the Riggs Street road, the next place after leaving the home of Frank A. Leek is the old Hatch homestead, the home of Chauncey Hatch during the latter years of his long and useful life. About the year 1835 he built the house, which is scarcely one and one-half stories in height, and of colonial style and architectue, with several ells and wings, more for convenience than looks. Uncle Chauncey, as he was called was a shoemaker and worked at the business all his life. He built a shop on the opposite side of the street where he spent the most of his time repairing shoes for the residents of the town. In his early life he always tanned his own leather. His tan yard was located farther up on Riggs street road. While excavating for a pipe line from a spring to the Episcopal parsonage some time ago the workmen uncovered some of the planking in a good state of preservation that had been buried there for over a century.
    Mr. Hatch was twice married. I do not recall the name of his first wife. His second wife was Susan Blackman, of Newtown. Three children were born by the first marriage, Julia Augusta and Chauncey Miles Hatch (Notice of whom has been given in a previous chapter.) Julia married Boyel Fairchild of Newtown, and reared quite a large family. Mrs. Kate M. Davis, widow of the late Wm. H. Davis, of Chestnut Tree Hill, is I believe the only survivor. She lives at the old homestead. He was much given to charity, especially if in a good cause. He gave the land where now stands the Episcopal church. He was considered one of the social men of Oxford and at one time owned a good portion of the village. He died Dec. 24th, 1865, aged 73.
    (NOTE: The Chauncey M. Hatch Homestead is house #85 in the EARLY HOUSES OF OXFORD, CONNECTICUT book, published 1976, Historic House Committee of Oxford's Bicentennial Commission).
    A short distance farther we come to the ruins of what was once the Capt. Dwinel Chatfield place. This house was built in the early part of the 18th century, the land being given to Mr. Chatfield by Chauncey Hatch providing that he build a house and pay the taxes as long as the house should remain occupied by him, or any other parties as long as the house was occupied. Mr. Chatfield was a blacksmith. He built a shop opposite the house and at that time was the only blacksmith in Oxford and did a thriving business for nearly forty years, until he was obliged on account of old age and infirmities to retire. He died about the year 1853, at the age of 75 years. After his death the place was occupied for many years by Michael Flim, who still continued to pay the taxes, until his death some years ago when it was purchased by Raymond Perry, of Oxford, who dismantled the old house rather than pay taxes on worthless property.
    The old shop, the house and the barn, all have fallen to decay and nothing remains of one of Oxford's oldest land marks.
    A little farther north, on the corner of the street leaidng to the center, we come to another old landmark, known as the Moody Brown place, but it was formerly owned and occupied by Chauncey Hatch, in his early life, and I am quite sure he was born in this house.
    [http://www.our-oxford.info/davis-reminiscences/Davis-10.html.]
  12. Charles Elwell, 1935 WPA Headstone Inscriptions - Episcopal Cemetery (St. Peter's Episcopal Cemetery), 11.
    [http://www.oxfordpast.net/epcemscan11.html.]
  13. W. C. Sharpe, History of Oxford (Seymour, CT, Record Print, 1885), 112.
    Wm. Hart Davis, March 10, 1829.
  14. Compiled By Carole Magnuson, The Barbour Collection of Connecticut Town Vital Records - Oxford 1798-1850, 40.
  15. Rev. Hollis A. Campbell, William C. Sharpe and Frank G. Bassett, Seymour Past and Present (Seymour, Connecticut, W. C. Sharpe, 1902), 432.
  16. Charles Elwell, 1935 WPA Headstone Inscriptions - Episcopal Cemetery (St. Peter's Episcopal Cemetery), 11.
    Marsh, Peter P., died Mar. 25, 1915, age 64 yrs.
    Porter, Col. Charles, died Sept. 23, 1886, age 85 yrs.
    James, Mahala, B., died Nov. 25, 1848, age 19 years.
    Candee, Lucy A., wife of L. C., died June 13, 1875, age 19 yrs.
    Davis, William, born Mar. 10, 1829, died Sept. 7, 1903
    Davis, Frances J. Mallett, wife of William H., born June 18, 1837, died May 15, 1872
    Davis, Isaac B., born May 22, 1864, died May 22, 1870
    Fairchild, John H., died Feb. 22, 1870, age 32 yrs.
    Fairchild, Sarah D., wife of John H., died May 6, 1924, age 79 yrs
    Fairchild, Stiles, died June 4, 1871, age 66 yrs.
    Fairchild, Mary A., wife of Stiles, died Mar. 15, 1892, age 79 yrs.
    [http://www.oxfordpast.net/epcemscan11.html.]
  17. Ibid., 11.
    [http://www.oxfordpast.net/epcemscan11.html.]
  18. Record of the Returns made by Sextons of Cemeteries.
    [http://www.our-oxford.info/sexton-reports/1903-4-top.html.]
  19. St. Peter's Episcopal Cemetery Photograph - Oxford, CT.
    [http://www.oxfordpast.net/cem6603.html.]
  20. George T. Davis, Genealogy of the Davis Descendants of Colonel John Davis of Oxford, Conn. (New Rochelle, N. Y., 1910), 256.
  21. 1860 Oxford Census.
  22. 1870 Oxford Census.
  23. B. H. Davis, Reminiscences of Oxford Homes and People (Seymour Record - 1913), Chapter 1.
    The youngest son, Wm. H. Davis, was born in 1831. He lived on the old farm most of his life. He married for his first wife Frances Mailett of Trumbull and had two sons and one daughter.
    [http://www.our-oxford.info/davis-reminiscences/davis-01.html.]
  24. W. C. Sharpe, History of Oxford (Seymour, CT, Record Print, 1885), 112.
    [http://www.our-oxford.info/Books/sharpe/112.html.]
  25. Charles Elwell, 1935 WPA Headstone Inscriptions - Episcopal Cemetery (St. Peter's Episcopal Cemetery), 11.
    [http://www.oxfordpast.net/epcemscan11.html.]
  26. Rev. Hollis A. Campbell, William C. Sharpe and Frank G. Bassett, Seymour Past and Present (Seymour, Connecticut, W. C. Sharpe, 1902), 432.
  27. Charles Elwell, 1935 WPA Headstone Inscriptions - Episcopal Cemetery (St. Peter's Episcopal Cemetery), 11.
    Marsh, Peter P., died Mar. 25, 1915, age 64 yrs.
    Porter, Col. Charles, died Sept. 23, 1886, age 85 yrs.
    James, Mahala, B., died Nov. 25, 1848, age 19 years.
    Candee, Lucy A., wife of L. C., died June 13, 1875, age 19 yrs.
    Davis, William, born Mar. 10, 1829, died Sept. 7, 1903
    Davis, Frances J. Mallett, wife of William H., born June 18, 1837, died May 15, 1872
    Davis, Isaac B., born May 22, 1864, died May 22, 1870
    Fairchild, John H., died Feb. 22, 1870, age 32 yrs.
    Fairchild, Sarah D., wife of John H., died May 6, 1924, age 79 yrs
    Fairchild, Stiles, died June 4, 1871, age 66 yrs.
    Fairchild, Mary A., wife of Stiles, died Mar. 15, 1892, age 79 yrs.
    [http://www.oxfordpast.net/epcemscan11.html.]
  28. Rev. Hollis A. Campbell, William C. Sharpe and Frank G. Bassett, Seymour Past and Present (Seymour, Connecticut, W. C. Sharpe, 1902), 432.
  29. W. C. Sharpe, History of Oxford (Seymour, CT, Record Print, 1885), 123.
    [http://www.our-oxford.info/Books/sharpe/123.html.]
  30. Charles Elwell, 1935 WPA Headstone Inscriptions - Episcopal Cemetery (St. Peter's Episcopal Cemetery), 11.
    [http://www.oxfordpast.net/epcemscan11.html.]
  31. St. Peter's Episcopal Cemetery Photograph - Oxford, CT.
    [http://www.oxfordpast.net/cem6604.html.]
  32. 1860 Oxford Census.
  33. 1870 Oxford Census.
  34. B. H. Davis, Reminiscences of Oxford Homes and People (Seymour Record - 1913), Chapter 1.
    Lucy, the first daughter, married Fred Candee of Oxford. She died the following year leaving no children.
    [http://www.our-oxford.info/davis-reminiscences/davis-01.html.]
  35. Rev. Hollis A. Campbell, William C. Sharpe and Frank G. Bassett, Seymour Past and Present (Seymour, Connecticut, W. C. Sharpe, 1902), 433.
  36. Baldwin, Charles Candee, The Candee Genealogy : with notices of allied families of Allyn, Catlin, Cooke, Mallery, Newell, Norton, Pynchon, and Wadsworth (Cleveland, Ohio, Leader Printing Company, 1882), 89.
  37. Charles Elwell, 1935 WPA Headstone Inscriptions - Episcopal Cemetery (St. Peter's Episcopal Cemetery), 11.
    Marsh, Peter P., died Mar. 25, 1915, age 64 yrs.
    Porter, Col. Charles, died Sept. 23, 1886, age 85 yrs.
    James, Mahala, B., died Nov. 25, 1848, age 19 years.
    Candee, Lucy A., wife of L. C., died June 13, 1875, age 19 yrs.
    Davis, William, born Mar. 10, 1829, died Sept. 7, 1903
    Davis, Frances J. Mallett, wife of William H., born June 18, 1837, died May 15, 1872
    Davis, Isaac B., born May 22, 1864, died May 22, 1870
    Fairchild, John H., died Feb. 22, 1870, age 32 yrs.
    Fairchild, Sarah D., wife of John H., died May 6, 1924, age 79 yrs
    Fairchild, Stiles, died June 4, 1871, age 66 yrs.
    Fairchild, Mary A., wife of Stiles, died Mar. 15, 1892, age 79 yrs.
    [http://www.oxfordpast.net/epcemscan11.html.]
  38. W. C. Sharpe, History of Oxford (Seymour, CT, Record Print, 1885), 193.
    [http://www.our-oxford.info/Books/sharpe/193.html.]
  39. Ibid., 178.
    [Oxford Legislature - 1899-1901
    http://www.our-oxford.info/Books/sharpe/178.html.]
  40. Dorothy A. DeBisschop, Oxford's Record: The First 175 Years (Oxford, CT, Oxford Record, Inc., 1973), 82.
    [Oxford Town Report - 1884
    http://www.oxfordpast.net/p82.htm.]
  41. George T. Davis, Genealogy of the Davis Descendants of Colonel John Davis of Oxford, Conn. (New Rochelle, N. Y., 1910), 256.
    ... represented his native town in the Legislature and in 1901 or 1902 was the delegate to the Constitutional Convention from Oxford, Conn. He resides in a pretty cottage just on the outskirts of the Village of Seymour, Conn., and is highly repsected by all who know him.
  42. 1860 Oxford Census.
  43. 1870 Oxford Census.
  44. 1880 Oxford Census.
    Farmer.
  45. 1900 Oxford Census.
    Farmer.
  46. 1910 Oxford Census.
    Proprietor.
  47. B. H. Davis, Reminiscences of Oxford Homes and People (Seymour Record - 1913), Chapter 1.
    William O. Davis lived in the old farmhouse many years and filled several town offices and was elected twice to t he legislature. Later he moved to Seymour and conducted a profitable livery business for several years. He died in Seymour in 1912. He is survived by his wife and one daughter, who lives on Bank street, in Seymour.
    [http://www.our-oxford.info/davis-reminiscences/davis-01.html.]
  48. Ibid., Chapter 9.
    A little further on the left we come to a very old house known as the Washington Benham homestead. It is located on the corner of the Chestnut Tree Hill road and the Woodbury turnpike and was built about the beginning of the 18th century. It is a house that would attract attention from a stranger, being of the gambrel roof style of architecture that was little known a century ago. Mr. Benham lived in this many years. He was married three times. My memory does not serve me in regard to the names of his wives. He had three children, two sons, and one daughter, John, who married Jessie Perry of Oxford and now lives in Beacon Falls, on the farm formerly owned by Stiles Fairchild. Geo. Benham lives in Seymour, and the daughter Hattie married Wm. O. Davis and lives in Seymour. Mr. Benham moved to Beacon Falls.
    The place then passed into the hands of Orrin Tucker and soon he commenced to make the famous Oxford doughnuts and established a very profitable business in this line and the sale of the Tucker Doughnuts extended from Danbury to New Haven. He carried on this business for many years until from old age and infirmities he retired and moved to Milford where he died several years ago.
    (NOTE: The Washington Benham Homestead is house #81 in the EARLY HOUSES OF OXFORD, CONNECTICUT book, published 1976, Historic House Committee of Oxford's Bicentennial Commission).
    [http://www.our-oxford.info/davis-reminiscences/Davis-09.html.]
  49. George T. Davis, Genealogy of the Davis Descendants of Colonel John Davis of Oxford, Conn. (New Rochelle, N. Y., 1910), 256.
  50. Rev. Hollis A. Campbell, William C. Sharpe and Frank G. Bassett, Seymour Past and Present (Seymour, Connecticut, W. C. Sharpe, 1902), 433.
  51. Frank F. O'Brien, 1934 WPA Headstone Inscriptions - Trinity Cemetery, Seymour, 61.
    [http://www.oxfordpast.net/trcemscan61.html.]
  52. 1870 Oxford Census.
  53. Rev. Hollis A. Campbell, William C. Sharpe and Frank G. Bassett, Seymour Past and Present (Seymour, Connecticut, W. C. Sharpe, 1902), 433.
  54. Emma Lounsbury, Oxford - A Historical Sketch (Seymour Record, 1914), Chapter 1.
    ... George Davis, who left home at an early age to learn the machinist trade in Hartford, where he now lives.
    [http://www.our-oxford.info/davis-reminiscences/davis-01.html.]
  55. Charles Elwell, 1935 WPA Headstone Inscriptions - Episcopal Cemetery (St. Peter's Episcopal Cemetery), 11.
    [http://www.oxfordpast.net/epcemscan11.html.]
  56. George T. Davis, Genealogy of the Davis Descendants of Colonel John Davis of Oxford, Conn. (New Rochelle, N. Y., 1910), 54.
  57. Rev. Hollis A. Campbell, William C. Sharpe and Frank G. Bassett, Seymour Past and Present (Seymour, Connecticut, W. C. Sharpe, 1902), 433.
  58. W. C. Sharpe, History of Oxford (Seymour, CT, Record Print, 1885), 106.
    [http://www.our-oxford.info/Books/sharpe/106.html.]
  59. Ibid., 122.
    [http://www.our-oxford.info/Books/sharpe/122.html.]
  60. George T. Davis, Genealogy of the Davis Descendants of Colonel John Davis of Oxford, Conn. (New Rochelle, N. Y., 1910), 54.
  61. Charles Elwell, 1935 WPA Headstone Inscriptions - Episcopal Cemetery (St. Peter's Episcopal Cemetery), 11.
    Marsh, Peter P., died Mar. 25, 1915, age 64 yrs.
    Porter, Col. Charles, died Sept. 23, 1886, age 85 yrs.
    James, Mahala, B., died Nov. 25, 1848, age 19 years.
    Candee, Lucy A., wife of L. C., died June 13, 1875, age 19 yrs.
    Davis, William, born Mar. 10, 1829, died Sept. 7, 1903
    Davis, Frances J. Mallett, wife of William H., born June 18, 1837, died May 15, 1872
    Davis, Isaac B., born May 22, 1864, died May 22, 1870
    Fairchild, John H., died Feb. 22, 1870, age 32 yrs.
    Fairchild, Sarah D., wife of John H., died May 6, 1924, age 79 yrs
    Fairchild, Stiles, died June 4, 1871, age 66 yrs.
    Fairchild, Mary A., wife of Stiles, died Mar. 15, 1892, age 79 yrs.
    [http://www.oxfordpast.net/epcemscan11.html.]
  62. Rev. Hollis A. Campbell, William C. Sharpe and Frank G. Bassett, Seymour Past and Present (Seymour, Connecticut, W. C. Sharpe, 1902), 433.
  63. Charles Elwell, 1935 WPA Headstone Inscriptions - Episcopal Cemetery (St. Peter's Episcopal Cemetery), 11.
    [http://www.oxfordpast.net/epcemscan11.html.]
  64. St. Peter's Episcopal Cemetery Photograph - Oxford, CT.
    [http://oxfordpast.net/cem6611.html.]
  65. Rev. Hollis A. Campbell, William C. Sharpe and Frank G. Bassett, Seymour Past and Present (Seymour, Connecticut, W. C. Sharpe, 1902), 433.

Revised: 19-Oct-08
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