Ancestry of
Bette Davis

Movie Actress

Calvin Harlow Davis

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• • Great-grandfather of Bette Davis — 4th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 8 
  • Father:
  • Mark Davis 
  • Mother:
  • Abigail Stevens   
  • Birth Date:
  • 9 Jul 1827 
  • Birth Location:
  • Canterbury, Merrimack, New Hampshire 
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  • Death Date:
  • 25 Jul 1876 
  • Death Location:
  • Aiken County, South Carolina 
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  • Spouse Name:
  • Ann Permelia Matthews
  • Marriage Date:
  • 12 Aug 1851 
  • Marriage Location:
  • Meredith, Belknap, New Hampshire 
  • Children:
  
  

  Edward Elwell Davis (Ahnentafel No:4 )

  Walter Howard Davis

  • Notes: 

  • Calvin H. Davis appears to have met his bride in Whitestown, New York, where they can both be found living at a school where Calvin is listed as a teacher in the 1850 federal census.

• Sources for Calvin Harlow Davis

  • ¹ Federal Census, ME, Kennebec County, 1860, Waterville, Image 53 of 112.
  • ² Federal Census, NY, Oneida County, 1850, Whitestown, Image 67 of 164.
  • ³ Federal Census, ME, Kennebec County, 1870, Waterville, p. 22, Image 22 of 124.
  • ⁴ Maine, U.S., Marriage Records, 1713-1922, Marriage record for son Walter Howard Davis and Cassandra Parkman Burrill.
  • ⁵ New Hampshire, U.S., Marriage and Divorce Records, 1659-1947, Marriage record for Calvin H Davis and Ann P Mathews.
  • ⁶ Lyford, James Otis, History of the Town of Canterbury, New Hampshire, 1727-1912, Vol. 2, Concord, New Hampshire: The Rumford Press (1912), 99-100.
  • ⁷ Whittemore, Rev. Edwin Carey, ed., The Centennial History of Waterville, Kennebec County, Maine, Waterville: Executive Committee of the Centennial Celebration (1902), 131.