William Otis DAVIS & Hattie A. BENHAM

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             Husband: William Otis DAVIS (1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11)

                Born: 22 OCT 1857 in Oxford, New Haven, CT (12 13)
          Christened: 28 DEC 1858 in St. Peters Episcopal Church, Oxford, New Haven, CT (14)
             Married: 26 MAR 1879 in St. Peters Episcopal Church, Oxford, New Haven, CT (28 29 30)
                Died: 1912 (15)
              Buried: in Trinity Cemetery, Seymour, New Haven, CT (16)
              Father: William Hart DAVIS
              Mother: Francis J. MALLETT
             Spouses:

                Wife: Hattie A. BENHAM (17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24)

                Born: 30 MAY 1854 in Oxford, New Haven, CT (25)
                Died:
              Father: Washington BENHAM
              Mother: Adeline A. JUDD
             Spouses:

Children

01               (F): Frances Mallett DAVIS (26)
                Born: 01 OCT 1880 in Oxford, New Haven, CT (27)
          Christened: 28 NOV 1880 in St. Peters Episcopal Church, Oxford, New Haven, CT
                Died:
             Spouses:

Footnotes

W. C. Sharpe, History of Oxford (Seymour, CT, Record Print, 1885), 193.
[http://www.our-oxford.info/Books/sharpe/193.html.]
Ibid., 178.
[Oxford Legislature - 1899-1901
http://www.our-oxford.info/Books/sharpe/178.html.]
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.]
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.
1860 Oxford Census.
1870 Oxford Census.
1880 Oxford Census.
Farmer.
1900 Oxford Census.
Farmer.
1910 Oxford Census.
Proprietor.
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.]
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.]
George T. Davis, Genealogy of the Davis Descendants of Colonel John Davis of Oxford, Conn. (New Rochelle, N. Y., 1910), 256.
Rev. Hollis A. Campbell, William C. Sharpe and Frank G. Bassett, Seymour Past and Present (Seymour, Connecticut, W. C. Sharpe, 1902), 433.
W. C. Sharpe, History of Oxford (Seymour, CT, Record Print, 1885), 105.
[http://www.our-oxford.info/Books/sharpe/105.html.]
Frank F. O'Brien, 1934 WPA Headstone Inscriptions - Trinity Cemetery, Seymour, 61.
[http://www.oxfordpast.net/trcemscan61.html.]
Ibid., 61.
[http://www.oxfordpast.net/trcemscan61.html.]
George T. Davis, Genealogy of the Davis Descendants of Colonel John Davis of Oxford, Conn. (New Rochelle, N. Y., 1910), 256.
... Hattie A. Benham, of Oxford ...
1860 Oxford Census.
1870 Oxford Census.
1880 Oxford Census.
1900 Oxford Census.
Rev. Hollis A. Campbell, William C. Sharpe and Frank G. Bassett, Seymour Past and Present (Seymour, Connecticut, W. C. Sharpe, 1902), 433.
1910 Oxford Census.
B. H. Davis, Reminiscences of Oxford Homes and People (Seymour Record - 1913), 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.]
W. C. Sharpe, History of Oxford (Seymour, CT, Record Print, 1885), 111.
[http://www.our-oxford.info/Books/sharpe/111.html.]
1900 Oxford Census.
Rev. Hollis A. Campbell, William C. Sharpe and Frank G. Bassett, Seymour Past and Present (Seymour, Connecticut, W. C. Sharpe, 1902), 433.
W. C. Sharpe, History of Oxford (Seymour, CT, Record Print, 1885), 108.
[http://www.our-oxford.info/Books/sharpe/108.html.]
George T. Davis, Genealogy of the Davis Descendants of Colonel John Davis of Oxford, Conn. (New Rochelle, N. Y., 1910), 256.
Rev. Hollis A. Campbell, William C. Sharpe and Frank G. Bassett, Seymour Past and Present (Seymour, Connecticut, W. C. Sharpe, 1902), 433.

Revised: 10-Aug-08


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