I hope the following will help. The source is The Lawrence Register, Abstracts of Obits, Death Notices, etc.of Lawrence county, Ohio (http://lawrencecountyohio.com/obits/newspapers/vol1/ObD.htm
The entry is from the Ironton Register:
DAVIDSON, JAMES ----- I.R. JAN. 03, 1895 & JAN. 10, 1895
A PIONEER GONE - Last Friday, James Davidson, father of Jere Davidson, died at his home in Burlington. He was born in Pennsylvania, March 4th, 1801, and so was 93y 9m 24d old. Old age ended his days. Came to this county when a child. Died Dec. 27th, 1894, was the grandson of William Davidson, who was born in 1747 and came to South Point in 1799, settling first for a short time at what is now Catlettsburg. He died in 1811 and was buried at South Point. He came there with his second wife, Barbara, by keelboat, from Red Stone, Fayette Co., Pennsylvania. The father of James Davidson, John Davidson, was by Wm. Davidson's first wife, Rosanna Hutchison, and came to what is now Lawrence Co., O., in the Summer of 1801, from Red Stone, Fayette Co., Pa. James was then three months old. John Davidson died at Burlington in 1828. His wife, Margaret Armstrong, also died at Burlington, in 1822. John and Margaret settled with their family in 1801 on the land owned by James Davidson at his death and where he resided from June 1801 till day of his death. James Davidson was the last of his family, there having been Sarah, who married Thos. Kerr; William, who married Hannah Pancake; James who married Mary Frances Combs; John who married Ruth Bryson; Marh, who married _____ Shyrhock; Joseph who married Maria Thomas; Jeremiah, who married Eliza Corum. He, James Davidson, was a member of the M. E. Church when he married, Jan. 25, 1829.
