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| (3) John DaDney DaNls.
 l. (5) Edwin Rodney Davis. born
 March 23, 1907; married Maivina Walk CT; died in 1S40.
 9. (5) Annie Bradley Davis. born
 March 2S. 1S10; died about 1880; mar
 ried William Richardson, a prominent
 lawyer of Athens, Ala. Issue of Anne Bradley Davis Richard
 son: (6) Mary Pleasants Richardson.
 married CD Joshua Richardson; CD
 Thompson Anderson, prominent mer-
 chant of Nashville, Tenn. Issue of (6) Mary Pleasants Richard son Anderson by her first marriage: I CD Joshua, died about 1900; CD Will | liam, married Miss Harris and is the | father of Miss Annie Richardson of the
 John Wade Reyes Chapter, Alabama D.
 A. R.
 (6) Sarah Elizabeth Richardson. l daughter of Anne Bradley Davis Rich
 ardson. married pr. Binford of Court land Ala, and had three sons. l (6) Dr. Nicholas Davis Richardson
 born November 30, 1882, died January Is, 1894; married CD in Athens, Ala. October 27, 1858 Sarah Elizabeth Hines l (2) Mrs. O. D. Sledge of Huntsville. S
 Dr. Nicholas Davis Richardson was
 a gallant Confederate soldier Strik- l ingly handsome and attractive. 1 Issue of (6) Dr. Nicholas Davis | Richardson and his first wife Elizabeth I =
 Hines:
 (7) Roswell Hines Richardson. born
 1859; married 1860, Mary Eloise Walker. | CD Anne Davis Richardson born 1861;
 married in Athens, Ala 1889. Thomas
 Machin Hobbs; member of Society of
 Alabama Colonial Danes. | (6) Samuel Richardson, son of Anne
 Bradley Davis Richardson, died young. l (6) William Richardson, son of Anne
 Bradley Davis Richardson, Captain c. l S. A., M. c. for Eighth Congressional
 District of Alabama; resides in Hunts vile, Ala; married Elizabeth Fucker
 of Lynchburg, Va; has five daughters and one son.
 (s) Edwin Ripley Richardson, son of Anne B. D. Richardson, married Miss Hamilton and resides in Nashville,
 Tenn.
 (6) Anne Davis Richardson, daugh
 ters of Anne B. D. Richardson. married
 J. F. Jones of Nashville. Tenn; has
 four daughters and one son. (6) James Benagh Richardson, son of
 Anne B. D. Richardson, married Sarah
 Evans; has several children. co George Richardson, son of Anne
 B. D. Richardson drowned in his early
 youth while at school at Florence Ala. | 3. (5) Martha Nicholas Davis, daugh- 1 ter of (D Nicholas Davis and Martha Hargrave his wife. born 1914; married
 
 Judge. Huntsville, Ala; died about 1S9G; l a very handsome and charming woman.
 Issue of (5) Martha Nicholas Davis
 Lane:
 GO Robert J. Lane. c S. A, died 1868;
 married Mrs Mattie Goode of Hunts
 ville.
 | (6) Kate Erskine Lane, mar. Colonel
 R. k. Townes, U. s. A.
 | (6) May Fearn Lane, mar pr. Theo-
 dore Westmoreland of Athens, Ala.
 | (6) Hector Davis Lane, Commissioner of Agriculture, State of Alabama; mar. l Madge Mason of Tennessee; lied in 1900, in Athens, Ala; left four children.
 (6) Charles Paul Lane, mar. Ella Ab- l ercrombie of Tuskegee, Ala; lives In l Huntsville, Ala; has seven children. f. (5) Philip Dormer Davis. son of ; (4) Nicholas Davis, born 1872; died in ; infancy
 . 5. (5) ZebuIon Pike Davis, son of (4) Nicholas Davis. born in 1816 in Ken n lucky; died in Huntsville, Ala, Jan. 2 g 1881. Mayor of Huntsville severa terms; married Dec. 20, 1S40, William l etta Eason, daughter of Major Wm : Eason of Huntsville, Ala, and his wife l. Anne Lavinia Rootes. and great-g grand' s daughter of (3) stephen Davis, brother S of (3) John Dabney Davis, so that she e was the second cousin once removed ot n (5) Zebulon Pike Davis. See Stepher :. Davis line.
 S Issue of (5) Zebulon Pike Davis, sor t of (4) Nicholas Davis. (6) Vim. Ripley, born 1841, died 1T infancy.
 d (6) Martha Hargrave, born 1Si3. dlet h Aug, 1865.
 f (6) George Lane. born 1S45. lied 1900 (6) Fife. born 1S47, died 1865. d (6) Anne Lavinia Eason, born Oct 6 1S49; married Aug. s. 1872. ln Hunts n vile, Ala, David D. Shelby. Unite, 5. States Circuit Judge, Fifth Circuit r Mrs. Shelby belongs to the Genera e Sumter Chapter, Alabama D. A. R 0 having entered on services of he n great-grandfather, John Dabney Davi a of the Virginia line; also Colonial Dam It of the Society of Alabama on service e of her ancestors Colonel George Reade IS Colonel Wm. Bernard, Captain Nlchola e Martian, Captain Robert Higginson IL and John Pleasants, all of them of tn e colony of Virginia and all of then IS ancestors of her grandmother, Ann ,; Lavinia Rootes, wife of Major William $ Eason of Huntsville Ala, and gram daughter of (S) stephen Davis. excep n John Pleasants, who as the ancesto el of Martha Hargrave, the wife of (4) Nj cholas Davis. Mrs Shelby is als m member of the Order of the Crowr l. through her ancestors, Col. Vim. Der e. nard and Col. George Reade Tn Ia former was descended in two line ol from Edward I, King of England; tn l. latter. through Sir Edward Dymok, n Hereditary Champion of England froI hs Edward I, King of England, Sir Ed ts ward Dymoke was a descendant c Ns Thomas Brotherton, Earl of Norfol D. and the Princess Joan d'Acres Col g. George Reade was also descended 1 IL two lines from Edward III, King c s- England, and from Henry Percy, tn III famous Harry Hotspur' of histor! ,h But Col. Wm. Bernard and Col is George Reade of Virginia, could clair IS still prouder and more illustrious dc fe scent than that from kings or prince lh for five of their ancestors were anon z e, the bold barons. who wrested tn ! rights of free men from John, King ( England. In the annals of freedom ~ Wm. de Huntingfield, and John Eli, II, Robert will outrank the proudest an oI haughtiest occupants of throne or pa
 i ace.
 S Hon. D. D. Shelby, who married C ss Anne Lavlnia Eason Davis Is the d, II scenedant of Gen. Evan Shelby of r' lu volutionary fame, for whom the Zee es Evan Shelby Chapter" of owensbor 70 Ky, is named.
 "a (6) Henrietta Eason Davis, daught' lu of (5) Zebulon Pike Davis born ,r Huntsville Ala, where she still r Ia' sides (6) Nicholas Davis. Jr, born 'e' Huntsville 1853; died March 1, 1SS