History of Bourbon, Scott, Harrison and Nicholas Counties, Kentucky, ed.
by William Henry Perrin,  O. L. Baskin & Co., Chicago, 1882.  p. 538.
[Bourbon County]  [North Middletown Precinct]

HENSON DAVIS, farmer; P. O. North Middletown, a native of Montgomery
County, and was born Jan. 24, 1817; his grandfather, John Davis, was of
Virginia birth, where he married and raised a family of ten children, two
sons and eight daughters.  He subsequently emigrated to Ohio and still
later to Missouri, where he died.  He was a soldier in the Revolutionary
army, on account of which he was drawing a pension at the time of his
death.  The oldest son, James Davis, came to Kentucky about the year 1800,
and in 1806, was married to Margaret Moore of Bourbon County.  After
living at various places in this State and Ohio, he finally settled
permanently on Aaron's Run, in Montgomery County, Ky., where he spent the
remainder of his life.  He was a soldier in the war of 1812, where he
served with credit to himself and his friends.  He raised a family of
seven children, three sons and four daughters.  He came to a premature
death by being thrown from a young horse, in Houston Creek, near Paris,
about the year 1821 and was drowned.  The third son, Henson Davis, who is
the subject of this sketch was married Sept. 15, 1839 to Catharine,
daughter of John Laughlin, of Bourbon County.  By this marriage there
were five children, two sons, viz: John Lucky, who married Ella Staten, of
Illinois, where he now resides, and Thomas I., who married Pauline
Campbell, of Nicholas County, near Carlisle.  Thomas still lives a the
homestead with his father.  There were three daughters, Margaret A., wife
of George W. Sparks; Martha E., wife of Daniel W. Bayless, and Mary Alice,
who married Tilford Caywood.  She died in 1877, leaving one son, Henry
Stanton.  Mr. Davis inherited by his wife 100 acres of land in Bourbon
County, where he settled, and by industry and economy he has added to it
from time to time, till [sic] he now owns 576 acres, three miles east of
North Middletown; notwithstanding he has had his residence with nearly all
of its contents twice destroyed by fire, during his married life, and
each time caught him without any insurance.  He is not a man that forfeits
much of his valuable time on account of politics, yet he always votes with
the Democratic party.

Davis Moore Laughlin Staten Campbell Sparks Bayless Caywood
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Nicholas-KY OH IL OH VA

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