Born in Franklin, Virginia, United States
Ancestors 
Daughter of Daniel Prillaman Helms
and Jane Iona (Turner) Helms
Sister of
Elizabeth S Helms, Ruth (Helms) Hagood, Thomas Steven Helms, George Turner Helms, Mary Jane (Helms) Woody, Mildred Ann (Helms) Turner, Martha (Helms) Shumate, John Dallas Helms, Samuel Helms, Eliza Ellen (Helms) Via, Isaac Washington Helms and Taylor Helm [half]
Wife of
James Marshall Davis
— married
17 Jan 1878 in Franklin, Virginia, United States
[children unknown]
Died
at age 89
in Danville, Pittsylvania, Virginia, United States
Profile last modified
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Biography
Louisa was born in 1850. She was the daughter of Daniel Helms and Jane Turner. She passed away in 1940.
Sources
- "United States Census, 1860", database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:M414-MT3 : 18 February 2021), Louisa Helms in entry for Daniel P Helms, 1860.
"United States Census, 1870", database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MFL1-MDJ : 29 May 2021), Louisa Helm in entry for Daniel Helm, 1870.
"Virginia Marriages, 1785-1940", database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XR6Q-TWY : 29 January 2020), Louisa Helm in entry for James M. Davis, 1878.
"United States Census, 1880," database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MC5S-1DF : 15 January 2022), Louisa Helms in household of Daniel P. Helms, Franklin, Southampton, Virginia, United States; citing enumeration district , sheet , NARA microfilm publication T9 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.), FHL microfilm .
"Virginia Marriages, 1785-1940", database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XR67-Z3W : 29 January 2020), Louisa Helms in entry for Wiley Beauregard Jimerson, 1883.
"United States Census, 1930," database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:CFVW-KW2 : accessed 21 January 2023), Louise Jamerson in household of Willey B Jamerson, Tunstall Magisterial District, Pittsylvania, Virginia, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) ED 29, sheet 4A, line 33, family 69, NARA microfilm publication T626 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 2002), roll 2455; FHL microfilm 2,342,189.
"Virginia, Death Certificates, 1912-1987," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QVRC-W24Q : 16 August 2019), Louisa Jameson, 21 Apr 1940; from "Virginia, Marriage Records, 1700-1850," database and images, Ancestry (http://www.ancestry.com : 2012); citing Danville, Pittsylvania, Virginia, United States, entry #, Virginia Department of Health, Richmond.
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DNA Connections
It may be possible to confirm family relationships with Louisa by comparing test results with other carriers of her ancestors' mitochondrial DNA. However, there are no known mtDNA test-takers in her direct maternal line. It is likely that these autosomal DNA test-takers will share some percentage of DNA with Louisa:
It may be possible to confirm family relationships with Louisa by comparing test results with other carriers of her ancestors' mitochondrial DNA. However, there are no known mtDNA test-takers in her direct maternal line. It is likely that these autosomal DNA test-takers will share some percentage of DNA with Louisa:
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~3.12%
Martha (Prillaman) Myers
:
23andMe, GEDmatch M911065 [compare]
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~3.12%
Arnold Prillaman :
Family Tree DNA Family Finder
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~2.34%
~3.12%
Joel Cannaday :
23andMe
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~1.56%
Twyla Dyer :
Family Tree DNA Family Finder
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~0.78%
Rebecca Dyer :
Family Tree DNA Family Finder, GEDmatch A943837 [compare], FTDNA kit #N38150
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~0.78%
David Dyer :
Family Tree DNA Family Finder, FTDNA kit #70979
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Rejected matches › Johanne Louise Helmer (1850-) › Phebe Louisa Holmes (1851-1939) › Eliza (Keywood) Holmes (1851-)
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