Esther Lou McGill (1888 - 1962)

Born 14 Apr 1888 in Oconee, South Carolina, United States

Ancestors

Died 28 Mar 1962 at age 73 in Canton, Cherokee, Georgia, United States

Biography

Born in 1888, Esther was the daughter of James McGill and Nancy Barker.^[1] She married William Albert Davis (1889-1967) in Gilmer County, Georgia in October of 1908., and they had eight children:

Bessie (1910-1996)

Bertha (b. 1914)

Claude (1916-1920)

Annie (1929-1979)

Callie (1923-2008)

Frank Homer (1925-2000)

Paul (b. 1932)

Private

They raised their family in Mullins, Georgia, where Willie took up farming ^[2] Farming must have been difficult, as Willie also was working at a lumber mill in 1930.^[3][4] Esther died in 1962 and is buried at Mount Calvary Baptist Church Cemetery in Canton.^[5]

Sources

1. ↑ Lien E Megill discovered in 1900 United States Federal Census[1] Year: 1900; Census Place: Tails Creek, Gilmer, Georgia; Page: 7; Enumeration District: 0044; FHL microfilm: 1240200. Ancestry.com. 1900 United States Federal Census [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2004. Original data: United States of America, Bureau of the Census. Twelfth Census of the United States, 1900. Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1900. T623, 1854 rolls.
2. ↑ "United States Census, 1920," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MJ8R-7HW : accessed 22 April 2020), Ester Davis in household of W A Davis, Mullins, Cherokee, Georgia, United States; citing ED 24, sheet 7B, line 56, family 131, NARA microfilm publication T625 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1992), roll 243; FHL microfilm 1,820,243.
3. ↑ "United States Census, 1930," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:339R-9ZM : accessed 22 April 2020), Esther Davis in household of Willie A Davis, Waleska, Cherokee, Georgia, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) ED 8, sheet 2B, line 84, family 43, NARA microfilm publication T626 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 2002), roll 346; FHL microfilm 2,340,081.
4. ↑ "United States Census, 1940," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:K7L7-MKR : 19 December 2019), Esther Davis in household of W A Davis, Cherokee, Militia District 1279, Cherokee, Georgia, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) 28-24, sheet 2A, line 21, family 21, Sixteenth Census of the United States, 1940, NARA digital publication T627. Records of the Bureau of the Census, 1790 - 2007, RG 29. Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 2012, roll 655.
5. ↑ Find A Graave[2]