Per the family history notes of descendant Eva McCARTY,
Sarah was the only child of Lavisa LAY and James S BROWN.
"Sarah married a man by the name of John DAVIS and
they adopted as their daughter Ella Elizabeth DAVIS.
Family descendants relates "the possibility John Davis really is Ella's biological dad with a gal name Ida Weston as her mother who sadly later died w/her birth."
Acc/to the family descendant, "Ella loved Sarah and John very much and was treated as if their very own daughter, actually wanting for nothing being a sweet kind hearted young lady. The pair were fairly well to do, even had a piano for her and says all her teachers were lovingly invited as their guests to live with them, providing Ella with excellent extra educational skills and companionship.
John being an astute business man, enjoyed to serve as Councilman on the 12th Arizona territorial legislature.
He traveled quite allot with his job duties and even went west, where he very fortunately survived the 1906 San Francisco earthquake."
Ella later first married James Robert LAY who was actually
Ella's adoptive second cousin, as the son of her adoptive grandmother's brother.
Ella and James later went to California, had 4 kids born there but later did end up with a fairly amicable 1920 divource.
Ella later secondly maried Henry Cummins, James had returned to AZ where he died and is buried by Lavisa and her brother Elijah.
Arizona-EASy Source Marriage Record File
Groom John Davis Bride Sarah Elizabeth Brown [mother Lay]
Marriage Date: 29 Jul 1877 Yavapai County Arizona
Indexing Project M02375-5 Film Number 2021724
1870 Census Sarah E Brown Birth Year abt 1860 TN age 9y
Home District 8 Campbell Tenn White female single
Household Members: Name Age
James Brown 32
Lavicy Brown 27
Sarah Brown 10 1860 TN
1880 Elizabeth Davis Home Verde Valley Yavapai Arizona
Age 20 Birth Year ABT 1860 TN married white female
Relation Head of Household Wife Spouse John Davis
Father Mother birthplace TN Occu Keeping House
Household Members: Name Age
John Davis 40 Birth abt 1840 Indiana
[Father birthplace Va Mother birthplace Indiana]
Elizabeth Davis 20 Sarah Elizabeth
By 1900 John is a widower living alone Graham AZ over the age of 60 years.
Sarah and John's dau they adopted b 1882 is now by 1900 living with Sarah's parents and is 17yrs old.
Ella E Davis 17 Birth Date Jun 1882 AZ white female
Relationship head-of-house:Granddaughter
Father Birthplace:AZ Mother Birthplace:AZ
Family descendant comments:
"Sarah married this kind man name John DAVIS and
he and wife adopted Ella Elizabeth DAVIS as their lovingly daughter on her mother's early death.
Sarah then sadly died 1893 on their trip to the bottom of the Grand Canyon, where they were cooling and enjoying the springs water, when she began to felt ill and and unfortunately died from her appendix issue.
Sarah's parents then took their daughter Ella and lovingly raised her as their own."
Sarah was the only child of Lavisa LAY and James S BROWN.
"Sarah married a man by the name of John DAVIS and
they adopted as their daughter Ella Elizabeth DAVIS.
Family descendants relates "the possibility John Davis really is Ella's biological dad with a gal name Ida Weston as her mother who sadly later died w/her birth."
Acc/to the family descendant, "Ella loved Sarah and John very much and was treated as if their very own daughter, actually wanting for nothing being a sweet kind hearted young lady. The pair were fairly well to do, even had a piano for her and says all her teachers were lovingly invited as their guests to live with them, providing Ella with excellent extra educational skills and companionship.
John being an astute business man, enjoyed to serve as Councilman on the 12th Arizona territorial legislature.
He traveled quite allot with his job duties and even went west, where he very fortunately survived the 1906 San Francisco earthquake."
Ella later first married James Robert LAY who was actually
Ella's adoptive second cousin, as the son of her adoptive grandmother's brother.
Ella and James later went to California, had 4 kids born there but later did end up with a fairly amicable 1920 divource.
Ella later secondly maried Henry Cummins, James had returned to AZ where he died and is buried by Lavisa and her brother Elijah.
Arizona-EASy Source Marriage Record File
Groom John Davis Bride Sarah Elizabeth Brown [mother Lay]
Marriage Date: 29 Jul 1877 Yavapai County Arizona
Indexing Project M02375-5 Film Number 2021724
1870 Census Sarah E Brown Birth Year abt 1860 TN age 9y
Home District 8 Campbell Tenn White female single
Household Members: Name Age
James Brown 32
Lavicy Brown 27
Sarah Brown 10 1860 TN
1880 Elizabeth Davis Home Verde Valley Yavapai Arizona
Age 20 Birth Year ABT 1860 TN married white female
Relation Head of Household Wife Spouse John Davis
Father Mother birthplace TN Occu Keeping House
Household Members: Name Age
John Davis 40 Birth abt 1840 Indiana
[Father birthplace Va Mother birthplace Indiana]
Elizabeth Davis 20 Sarah Elizabeth
By 1900 John is a widower living alone Graham AZ over the age of 60 years.
Sarah and John's dau they adopted b 1882 is now by 1900 living with Sarah's parents and is 17yrs old.
Ella E Davis 17 Birth Date Jun 1882 AZ white female
Relationship head-of-house:Granddaughter
Father Birthplace:AZ Mother Birthplace:AZ
Family descendant comments:
"Sarah married this kind man name John DAVIS and
he and wife adopted Ella Elizabeth DAVIS as their lovingly daughter on her mother's early death.
Sarah then sadly died 1893 on their trip to the bottom of the Grand Canyon, where they were cooling and enjoying the springs water, when she began to felt ill and and unfortunately died from her appendix issue.
Sarah's parents then took their daughter Ella and lovingly raised her as their own."
Per the family history notes of descendant Eva McCARTY,
Sarah was the only child of Lavisa LAY and James S BROWN.
"Sarah married a man by the name of John DAVIS and
they adopted as their daughter Ella Elizabeth DAVIS.
Family descendants relates "the possibility John Davis really is Ella's biological dad with a gal name Ida Weston as her mother who sadly later died w/her birth."
Acc/to the family descendant, "Ella loved Sarah and John very much and was treated as if their very own daughter, actually wanting for nothing being a sweet kind hearted young lady. The pair were fairly well to do, even had a piano for her and says all her teachers were lovingly invited as their guests to live with them, providing Ella with excellent extra educational skills and companionship.
John being an astute business man, enjoyed to serve as Councilman on the 12th Arizona territorial legislature.
He traveled quite allot with his job duties and even went west, where he very fortunately survived the 1906 San Francisco earthquake."
Ella later first married James Robert LAY who was actually
Ella's adoptive second cousin, as the son of her adoptive grandmother's brother.
Ella and James later went to California, had 4 kids born there but later did end up with a fairly amicable 1920 divource.
Ella later secondly maried Henry Cummins, James had returned to AZ where he died and is buried by Lavisa and her brother Elijah.
Arizona-EASy Source Marriage Record File
Groom John Davis Bride Sarah Elizabeth Brown [mother Lay]
Marriage Date: 29 Jul 1877 Yavapai County Arizona
Indexing Project M02375-5 Film Number 2021724
1870 Census Sarah E Brown Birth Year abt 1860 TN age 9y
Home District 8 Campbell Tenn White female single
Household Members: Name Age
James Brown 32
Lavicy Brown 27
Sarah Brown 10 1860 TN
1880 Elizabeth Davis Home Verde Valley Yavapai Arizona
Age 20 Birth Year ABT 1860 TN married white female
Relation Head of Household Wife Spouse John Davis
Father Mother birthplace TN Occu Keeping House
Household Members: Name Age
John Davis 40 Birth abt 1840 Indiana
[Father birthplace Va Mother birthplace Indiana]
Elizabeth Davis 20 Sarah Elizabeth
By 1900 John is a widower living alone Graham AZ over the age of 60 years.
Sarah and John's dau they adopted b 1882 is now by 1900 living with Sarah's parents and is 17yrs old.
Ella E Davis 17 Birth Date Jun 1882 AZ white female
Relationship head-of-house:Granddaughter
Father Birthplace:AZ Mother Birthplace:AZ
Family descendant comments:
"Sarah married this kind man name John DAVIS and
he and wife adopted Ella Elizabeth DAVIS as their lovingly daughter on her mother's early death.
Sarah then sadly died 1893 on their trip to the bottom of the Grand Canyon, where they were cooling and enjoying the springs water, when she began to felt ill and and unfortunately died from her appendix issue.
Sarah's parents then took their daughter Ella and lovingly raised her as their own."
Sarah was the only child of Lavisa LAY and James S BROWN.
"Sarah married a man by the name of John DAVIS and
they adopted as their daughter Ella Elizabeth DAVIS.
Family descendants relates "the possibility John Davis really is Ella's biological dad with a gal name Ida Weston as her mother who sadly later died w/her birth."
Acc/to the family descendant, "Ella loved Sarah and John very much and was treated as if their very own daughter, actually wanting for nothing being a sweet kind hearted young lady. The pair were fairly well to do, even had a piano for her and says all her teachers were lovingly invited as their guests to live with them, providing Ella with excellent extra educational skills and companionship.
John being an astute business man, enjoyed to serve as Councilman on the 12th Arizona territorial legislature.
He traveled quite allot with his job duties and even went west, where he very fortunately survived the 1906 San Francisco earthquake."
Ella later first married James Robert LAY who was actually
Ella's adoptive second cousin, as the son of her adoptive grandmother's brother.
Ella and James later went to California, had 4 kids born there but later did end up with a fairly amicable 1920 divource.
Ella later secondly maried Henry Cummins, James had returned to AZ where he died and is buried by Lavisa and her brother Elijah.
Arizona-EASy Source Marriage Record File
Groom John Davis Bride Sarah Elizabeth Brown [mother Lay]
Marriage Date: 29 Jul 1877 Yavapai County Arizona
Indexing Project M02375-5 Film Number 2021724
1870 Census Sarah E Brown Birth Year abt 1860 TN age 9y
Home District 8 Campbell Tenn White female single
Household Members: Name Age
James Brown 32
Lavicy Brown 27
Sarah Brown 10 1860 TN
1880 Elizabeth Davis Home Verde Valley Yavapai Arizona
Age 20 Birth Year ABT 1860 TN married white female
Relation Head of Household Wife Spouse John Davis
Father Mother birthplace TN Occu Keeping House
Household Members: Name Age
John Davis 40 Birth abt 1840 Indiana
[Father birthplace Va Mother birthplace Indiana]
Elizabeth Davis 20 Sarah Elizabeth
By 1900 John is a widower living alone Graham AZ over the age of 60 years.
Sarah and John's dau they adopted b 1882 is now by 1900 living with Sarah's parents and is 17yrs old.
Ella E Davis 17 Birth Date Jun 1882 AZ white female
Relationship head-of-house:Granddaughter
Father Birthplace:AZ Mother Birthplace:AZ
Family descendant comments:
"Sarah married this kind man name John DAVIS and
he and wife adopted Ella Elizabeth DAVIS as their lovingly daughter on her mother's early death.
Sarah then sadly died 1893 on their trip to the bottom of the Grand Canyon, where they were cooling and enjoying the springs water, when she began to felt ill and and unfortunately died from her appendix issue.
Sarah's parents then took their daughter Ella and lovingly raised her as their own."
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