Ancestry of
Bette Davis

Movie Actress

Edward Elwell Davis

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• • Grandfather of Bette Davis — 3rd Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 4 
  • Father:
  • Calvin Harlow Davis 
  • Mother:
  • Ann Permelia Matthews   
  • Birth Date:
  • 10 Mar 1854 
  • Birth Location:
  • New Hampshire 
  • Christening Date:
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  • Christening Location:
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  • Death Date:
  • 7 Mar 1905 
  • Death Location:
  • Harpers Ferry, Jefferson, West Virginia 
  • Burial Date:
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  • Burial Location:
  • Mount Pleasant Cemetery, Augusta, Kennebec, Maine 
  • Spouse Name:
  • Eliza Jane Morrell
  • Marriage Date:
  • 23 Sep 1882 
  • Marriage Location:
  • Chepachet, Glocester, Providence, Rhode Island 
  • Child:

  Harlow Morrell Davis (Ahnentafel No:2 )

  • Notes: 

  • Edward Elwell Davis's middle name is also seen as Ellwood.

• Sources for Edward Elwell Davis

  • ¹ Federal Census, ME, Kennebec County, 1900, Augusta, E.D. 105, Sheet 5B, Image 10 of 24.
  • ² Federal Census, ME, Kennebec County, 1860, Waterville, Image 53 of 112.
  • ³ Federal Census, ME, Kennebec County, 1870, Waterville, p. 22, Image 22 of 124.
  • ⁴ Gravestone image at FindAGrave.com, (accessed 10/07/2014).
  • ⁵ Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1841-1910, Lowell, Vol. 571, p. 525, Marriage of son Harlow Morrell Davis and Ruth Augusta Favor.
  • ⁶ Lyford, James Otis, History of the Town of Canterbury, New Hampshire, 1727-1912, Vol. 2, Concord, New Hampshire: The Rumford Press (1912), 100.
  • ⁷ Roberts, Gary Boyd, The Mayflower 500: Five Hundred Notable Descendants of the Founding Families on the Mayflower, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (2020), 286.