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Emma Eva Wayland Davidson

Birth	:	30 Oct 1847 Waterloo, Clark County, Missouri, USA
Death	:	4 May 1890 Chico, Butte County, California, USA
Burial	:	Garfield Park Cemetery, Grand Rapids, Kent County, USA
Coordinate	:	42.9221992, -85.6307983
Plot	:	Sec 4,A Lot 44 sp 3
Description	:	1850 census District 19, Clark, MO; Franklin Wayland, aged 27, physician, bp VA; Emma S.R. aged 26, bp SC; Emma E. aged 2; Franklin aged 6 months -- both born MO. [Census taken Sept 1850] 1860 census St. Francisville, Clark, MO: J. F. Wayland, aged 37, phsician, real estate valued $14,000, bp VA; Em aged 36, bp SC; Em aged 12; Abram J. aged 11; Cora aged 7; Frank aged 5 -- all born MO. Note: In the 1850 census Franklin is 6 months old; here he is five years old. Did the first Franklin die and they named another son... Read More	1850 census District 19, Clark, MO; Franklin Wayland, aged 27, physician, bp VA; Emma S.R. aged 26, bp SC; Emma E. aged 2; Franklin aged 6 months -- both born MO. [Census taken Sept 1850] 1860 census St. Francisville, Clark, MO: J. F. Wayland, aged 37, phsician, real estate valued $14,000, bp VA; Em aged 36, bp SC; Em aged 12; Abram J. aged 11; Cora aged 7; Frank aged 5 -- all born MO. Note: In the 1850 census Franklin is 6 months old; here he is five years old. Did the first Franklin die and they named another son Franklin? 1870 census Chico Twp, Butte, CA: Emma S. Wayland, aged 46, bp SC; Emma aged 22, teacher; John A. aged 20, druggist; Cora E. aged 18; Frank aged 16 -- all born MO. [Census taken July 13, 1870] Counted in her mother's household after her marriage to Henry. "She [Cora Wayland Kennedy] was the mother of four children: Emma, who married Gen. H.B. Davidson, and died in Chico ..." Source: "History of Butte County, Cal.," by George C. Mansfield, Pages 820-821, Historic Record Co, Los Angeles, CA, 1918. 1870 census Township 2, Santa Barbara, CA: Henry B. Davidson, aged 39, lawyer, bp TN; Emma W. aged 23, bp MO; servant, Mary Lela, aged 37, bp Ireland. [Census taken August 22, 1870] Note: Emma married Henry June 6, 1870, in Butte County. 1880 census Chico, Butte, CA: Henry B. Davidson, aged 49, railroad agent, bp TN, father NC, mother England; Emma W. aged 32, bp MO, father VA, mother SC; Frank aged 3; Bertha aged 7 months, born Nov. -- both born CA.-census research by Carolyn Hackett Dowd. ~~~ ** Date of newspaper is not always the date of the incident - this was a weekly, and stories were written, set, and the printing was done after the facts were typeset, often days later. Chico Weekly Enterprise, Friday Evening, May 9, 1890, pg 1, col 3: Death of Mrs. Emma Wayland Davidson. This morning about eight o’clock word was passed along the streets that Mrs. Davidson was dead at the residence of her mother, Mrs. Wayland. The news took many of our citizens by surprise not knowing the circumstances which brought her from her home in Sacramento to Chico. Some few weeks ago her brother, John A. Wayland, who had been suffering severely for some months, was so sick that his life was despaired of. A strong sympathy existed between the brother and sister and Mrs. Davidson left her home in Sacramento and came to Chico to assist her mother in administering to the relief of her sick brother. For some time she labored night and day, and watched him closely, but her own frail strength commence to give way under the strain and she was taken down with typhoid-pneumonia, which terminated fatally at 7:55 this morning. Deceased was a noble sister, wife and mother, of attractive and amiable disposition, kind and gentle, and we have long admired her as one of the very best of women. Deceased was the eldest daughter of the four children of Dr. J.F. and Mrs. Wayland, she was born in Waterloo, Clark county, Mo., on the 30th of October, 1847, after which the family moved to Keokuk, Iowa, and in 1868 came to California, taking up their residence in Chico that year, where she resided until her husband, Gen. H.B. Davidson, commenced his duties as Deputy Secretary of State, when his family removed to Sacramento. She leaves a husband and son, Frankie, 14 years, to mourn the loss of a beloved wife and Christian mother, also her mother, two brothers and sister, whose hearts are surcharged with grief at their great bereavement. Mrs. Davidson was one of the original members of the Presbyterian church when it was organized in 1869. We deeply sympathize with the bereaved ones in their great loss, but our words of condolence seem cold and harsh in the face of so great a bereavement. The funeral will take place from the residence on Broadway, corner of Sixth, at 3 p.m. tomorrow, Sunday. ~~~ "Davidson, Emma Eva, - white, age 43 yrs., married, b. Waterloo, Mo., d. 3 May 1890 in Chico Ca., and vicinity." Source: Earliest Death and Burial Records, in the Butte County Courthouse, published serially in the Paradise Genealogical Society's publication, The Goldmine, 1990-1992, pg 14.

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Emma Eva Wayland Davidson's memorial is located at: Garfield Park Cemetery, Grand Rapids, Kent County, USA.
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Emma Eva Wayland Davidson death on 4 May 1890 in Chico, Butte County, California, USA
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Latitude: 42.9221992
Longitude: -85.6307983

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(1871 - 1872)

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(1876 - 1955)

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