Mildred Pollard (Gaines) Davies (1815 - 1900)

Born 20 Jul 1815 in Boone, Kentucky, United States

Ancestors

Wife of Anthony Harpin Davies — married 8 Feb 1841 in Natchez, Adams County, Mississippi

Descendants

Died 26 Dec 1900 at age 85 in Lakehall, Chicot, Arkansas, United States

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Biography

Mildred (Gaines) Davies was part of a Southern Pioneer Family.

Mildred Pollard Gaines was 11th of 13 children of Abner Legrand Gaines and Susan Elizabeth Mathews in Boone County, Kentucky. She was born at the family home known at the time to be at "Gaines Cross Roads" and what later the town of Walton. She met her husband Anthony H. Davies of Chicot County while visiting brothers at Gaines Landing. She married Anthony H. Davies in 1841. The services were held at the home of a brother in Natchez, Adams, Mississippi.

Her father died in 1839 and upon the death of her mother in 1861, Mildred inherited the family home and much of its property in Walton. After her husband A. H. Davies died in 1862, Mildred filed petition for dower interest in Lake Hall plantation's slaves and property and later fled the state to Texas, ^[1] presumably where Gaines cousins lived. She returned to Chicot County, Arkansas after the conflict and remained at Lake Hall with her 2nd oldest son, Frederick Walter Davies, running the plantation and later, plantation store at Vaucluse Landing.^[2] Mildred P (Gaines Davies) died in 1900.

Sources

1. ↑ Wintory, B. (2015). Chicot County. United States: Arcadia Publishing.
2. ↑ Personal recollections and those handed down through descendants.

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• Personal recollections and those handed down through descendants.
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• 1850; Census Place: Louisiana, Chicot, Arkansas; Roll: M432_25; Page: 182B; Image: 365. Ancestry.com
• 1860; Census Place: Old River, Chicot, Arkansas; Page: 922. Ancestry.com
• 1870; Census Place: McConnell, Chicot, Arkansas; Roll: M593_49; Page: 117A; Family History Library Film: 545548. Ancestry.com
• 1900; Census Place: McConnell, Chicot, Arkansas; Roll: T623_52; Page: 25A; Enumeration District: 32. Ancestry.com
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