Marian Louise (Gelston) Davis (1894 - 1949)

Born 12 Sep 1894 in Clarkstown, Rockland, New York, United States

Ancestors

Wife of Frederick Washburn Davis — married 9 Jun 1923 in Mount Vernon, New York, United States

Descendants

Died 26 May 1949 at age 54 in Waterbury, New Haven, Connecticut, United States

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Biography

Marian was born in 1894. At the age of eleven, both her parents died suddenly within a few months of each other. Marian went to live with her cousin Eva.

Marian attended the Lyndhurst Sewing School and at one time was secretary for the American Baptist Board of Promotion on Fifth Avenue in New York City. Also was the private secretary for Rev. D. Warburton, the pastor who officiated her marriage to Frederick Davis.

She was a member of the Daughters of the American Revolution and the Eastern Star.

Her hobbies included music, sewing, flowers, fishing and homemaking.

She passed away in 1949 and is buried at Riverside Cemetery, Waterbury, Connecticut.

Census

1900 - Brooklyn, New York City, Kings, New York, United States^[1]

1910 - Westchester, New York ^[2]

1915 - New York, Kings, New York, United States^[3]

1920 - Mount Vernon, Westchester, New York, United States ^[4]

1930 - Ansonia, New Haven, Connecticut, United States ^[5]

1940 - Ansonia, New Haven, Connecticut, United States ^[6]

Sources

1. ↑ "United States Census, 1900," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MSFH-HKR : accessed 6 June 2018), Mary Gelston in household of William Gelston, Borough of Brooklyn, Election District 1 New York City Ward 4, Kings, New York, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) 29, sheet 2B, family 46, NARA microfilm publication T623 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1972.); FHL microfilm 1,241,044.
2. ↑ "United States Census, 1910," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:M57L-Y9L : accessed 5 May 2018), Marion Gelston in household of Irving M Taylor, Greenburgh, Westchester, New York, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) ED 28, sheet 2B, family 31, NARA microfilm publication T624 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1982), roll 1089; FHL microfilm 1,375,103.
3. ↑ "New York State Census, 1915," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:K9R1-VQL : 8 November 2014), Marian Gelston, New York, Kings, New York, United States; from "New York, State Census, 1915," database and images, Ancestry (http://www.ancestry.com : 2012); citing p. 26, line 35, state population census schedules, 1915, New York State Archives, Albany.
4. ↑ "United States Census, 1920," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MV3H-8TF : accessed 6 June 2018), Marion L Gelston in household of Herbert S Taylor, Mount Vernon Ward 3, Westchester, New York, United States; citing ED 90, sheet 1B, line 61, family 14, NARA microfilm publication T625 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1992), roll 1277; FHL microfilm 1,821,277.
5. ↑ "United States Census, 1930," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XM5Q-9WB : accessed 6 June 2018), Marian Davis in household of Frederick W Davis, Ansonia, New Haven, Connecticut, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) ED 111, sheet 14A, line 48, family 302, NARA microfilm publication T626 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 2002), roll 272; FHL microfilm 2,340,007.
6. ↑ "United States Census, 1940," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:K71L-GMY : accessed 6 June 2018), Marian G Davis in household of Frederick W Davis, Ward 5, Ansonia, Ansonia Town, New Haven, Connecticut, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) 5-17, sheet 5B, line 69, family 123, 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 514.

• New York State Department of Health; Albany, NY, USA; New York State Marriage Index; Source Information: Ancestry.com. New York State, Marriage Index, 1881-1967. Lehi, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2017; Original data: New York State Marriage Index, New York State Department of Health, Albany, NY.
• Daughters of the American Revolution
• Emens, Nathaniel Creighton Emans -- Emens Family History (NCE, Middleboro, Massachusetts, 2002), page 50