Info: Mrs. J. R. Williamson, sister of Santa Rosa, CA

====================================================================== Christopher Columbus Davidson was born in Barren Co., Kentucky on Feb 27, 1832. He was one of at least ten children born to Jacob Ellis Davidson (1801-1884) and Mary Bowles Winn (1804-1883), both of Kentucky. They decided, along with countless of other Americans, to come West because of the new opportunities that awaited them. Many of the Davidsons took the Oregon Trail all of the way to the Willamette Valley of central western Oregon Territory and to the Jackson and Josephine county areas in the southern part of the territory. In 1859, Oregon became a state and by 1860, Christopher Columbus Davidson had settled in Santa Rosa, Sonoma County, California. He was a farmer with personal assets of $1,200. His brother, Smith Ellis Davidson, lived nearby and had personal assets totaling $1,000. Both were single men living in town, while their parents had a farm further over valued at $1,000 with cash assets totaling $2,000. Four younger siblings, Amanda, 22, Norvel R., 21, Josephine I., 18, and Alexander T., 14, were at home with their parents and other siblings had married and were raising families nearby. By 1900, Christopher C. Davidson, when the census was taken, was a resident of the Sonoma County Poor Farm and was a "pensioner" from past military service. He had never married, but upon his death on March 11, 1913, he was buried with his brother, Smith Ellis Davidson, who had been killed April 18th, 1906 during the San Francisco Earthquake that damaged much of Santa Rosa, California and with his parents and a number of siblings at the Santa Rosa Rural Cemetery in Sonoma County, California. May they all Rest in Peace forever.
by Kathie L. Webb Blair, 11 July 2018, A Davidson -Burkhart descendant of Oregon.