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Geena Davis

Movie and TV Actress

Joel Davis

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• • 3rd Great-grandfather of Geena Davis — 6th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 32 
  • Father:
  • Asahel Davis 
  • Mother:
  • Abigail Nichols   
  • Birth Date:
  • 9 Oct 1776 
  • Birth Location:
  • Hubbardston, Worcester, Massachusetts 
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  • Death Date:
  • 6 Feb 1853 
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  • Burial Location:
  • Barnard Village Cemetery, Barnard, Windsor, Vermont 
  • Spouse Name:
  • Persis Baker Danforth
  • Marriage Date:
  • 23 Feb 1809 
  • Marriage Location:
  • Barnard, Windsor, Vermont 
  • Child:

  Isaac Danforth Davis (Ahnentafel No:16 )

• Sources for Joel Davis

  • ¹ Gravestone image at FindAGrave.com, (accessed 10/28/2022).
  • ² Massachusetts, U.S., Town and Vital Records, 1620-1988, Birth record for Joel Davis.
  • ³ Vermont: Births, Marriages and Deaths, 1700-2008, Births D to 1871, p. 2521, Birth record for son Isaac Danforth Davis.
  • ⁴ Vermont: Births, Marriages and Deaths, 1700-2008, Marriages D to 1871, p. 2538, Marriage of Joel Davis and Persis Danforth.
  • ⁵ Child, Hamilton, Gazetteer and Business Directory of Windsor County, Vt., for 1883-84, Syracuse, New York: Printed at The Journal Office (1884), 87, gives Joel's birth date as 14 OCT 1776 and father as Eliphalet.
  • ⁶ May, John Joseph, Danforth Genealogy: Nicholas Danforth of Framlingham, England, and Cambridge, N.E. (1589-1638) and William Danforth . ., Boston, Massachusetts: Charles H. Pope (1902), 169, gives birth location as Sharon, Vermont.
  • ⁷ Newton, William Monroe, History of Barnard, Vermont with Family Genealogies, 1761-1927, Vol. 2, [Montpelier, Vermont]: Vermont Historical Society (1928), 144-145.

Geena Davis photo by Alan Light (CC BY-SA 2.0)