Person:Daniel Davis (52)

Name:
Daniel Davis
Home in 1830 (City, County, State):
Precinct 4, Shelby, Illinois
Free White Persons - Males - Under 5:
1
Free White Persons - Males - 15 thru 19:
2
Free White Persons - Males - 40 thru 49:
1
Free White Persons - Females - Under 5:
1
Free White Persons - Females - 5 thru 9:
2
Free White Persons - Females - 10 thru 14:
1
Free White Persons - Females - 20 thru 29:
1
Free White Persons - Females - 40 thru 49:
1
Free White Persons - Under 20:
7
Free White Persons - 20 thru 49:
3
Total Free White Persons:
10
Total - All Persons (Free White, Slaves, Free Colored):
10

Name:
Daniel Davis
Home in 1840 (City, County, State):
Shelby, Illinois
Free White Persons - Males - 5 thru 9:
2
Free White Persons - Males - 50 thru 59:
1
Free White Persons - Females - 10 thru 14:
1
Free White Persons - Females - 50 thru 59:
1
Persons Employed in Agriculture:
2
Free White Persons - Under 20:
3
Total Free White Persons:
5
Total All Persons - Free White, Free Colored, Slaves:
5






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Source Citation: Year: 1840; Census Place: , Shelby, Illinois; Roll: 70; Page: 190; Image: 390; Family History Library Film: 0007644.

Shelby County
Probate Court Record
Vol 2 Pg 329-334

Probate Court May 26th 1848

On this day the following will was filed, proved, admitted, and is hereby ordered to record.

In the name of God, Amen, I Daniel Davis of the County of Shelby and the State of Illinois, being weak in body but of sound mind and memory, do make, ordain, and establish this to be my last will and testament, hereby revoking all others, and I do hereby appoint Isham Davis and William F. Tull to be the Executors of my last will and testament,
1st, it is my will and desire that all my final debts be paid and that a sufficiency of my personal property be sold for that purpose.
2 After the payment of all my last debts and funeral expenses, it is my will they my dear and beloved wife keep, retain, and enjoy all my real and personal estate free from molestation so long as she should live, or so long as she should remain unmarried, but should [illegible] marry or at her death, it is then my will that my executors should sell all my real and personal property to be equally divided between all of my heirs.
In testimony [illegible] I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my seal, the 25th day of April in the year of our Lord one thousand Eight hundred and forty-eight, signed and acknowledged before us

John S. Turley
James Weeks

Daniel Davis {seal}

State of Illinois
Shelby County

On the 26th day of May AD 1848 came John Turley and James Weeks who being duly sworn according to law, doth in their oath state that they were present and saw the testator sign said will in their presence and acknowledge the same to be his and deed and that they believed the testator to be of sound mind and memory at the time of signing the same.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal this
26th day of May AD 1848
David Evoy, F.J.P.
State of Illinois
Shelby County

Isham Davis and William F. Tull do solemnly swear that the [illegible] last will and testament of the above named Daniel Davis deceased so far as I know and believe, and that we will [illegible] by paying first the debts and then the legacies mentioned therein so far as his goods and cattles will thereunto extend and the law charges us, and that we will make a true and perfect inventory of all such goods and cattles, rights and creditors, as may come to our hands and knowledge belonging to the estate of the said deceased and [illegible] a fair and just account of our Executorship when thereunto required by law to the best of our knowledge and abilities, so help us God.

Isham Davis (his mark)
William F. Tull
Executor

Sworn to and subscribed before me this 26th day of May AD 1848, David Evoy, F.J.P.

Probate Court May 26th, 1848

Estate of Daniel Davis, dec’d, continued

On this the following bond was filed and affirmed and is hereby ordered to record. David Evoy F.J.P.

[Ilegible] known all men by these presents that we Isham Davis, William F. Tull, Joel Reynolds, John S. Tully, James Weeks, and William Baker of the County of Shelby and State of Illinois are held and firmly bound unto the People of the State of Illinois in the final sum of thirty-six hundred dollars, current money of the United States, for the payment of which well and truly to be made, we and each of us do bind ourselves, our heirs, executors, and administrators, jointly, severally, and firmly by these presents. Witness our hands and seals, this 26th day of May in the year of our Lord, one thousand eight hundred and forty eight.

The condition of the above obligation is such that if the above bound Isham Davis and William F. Tull, executors of the last will and testament of Daniel Davis, deceased, do make, or cause to be made, a true and perfect inventory of all and singular the goods and chattles, rights and credits, [illegible] tenemants [?], and herediments [?], and the rents and profits issuing out of the hands, [illegible], or knowledge of the same Isham Davis and William F. Tull or into the [illegible] of any other person for these and the same so made to exhibit in the court of Probate for the said County of Shelby, as [illegible] by law, and also make and render a fair and just account of this acting, [illegible] as such executors to said court, when thereunto law fully [illegible] and to well and truly fulfill the duties enforced upon them in and of the said will, and shall moreover pay[?] and deliver to the persons entitled thereto, all the legacies and bequests, contained in said will, so far as the Estate of the said testator will thereunto extends [illegible] to the value thereof, and as the law shall charge them and shall in general do all other acts which may from time to time be required of them by them, then this obligation to be void, otherwise to remain in full, freed, and [illegible].

Attest - David Evoy F.J.P.

Ishaw Davis (his mark) {seal}
William F. Tull {seal}
John S. Turley {seal}
Joel Reynolds {seal}
James Weeks {seal}
William Baker {seal}

Probate Court, September 4th, 1848

Estate of Daniel Davis Continued

On this day the following inventory was filed and is hereby ordered to record.

David Evoy, F.J.P.

Inventory of the real Estate, goods, and chattles, notes and account, of the Estate of Daniel Davis late of Shelby County, State of Illinois, deceased.

The south east quarter of the North west quarter of Section twenty four; The East half of the North East quarter of Section twenty three, thirty-eight acres of the South West quarter of the North East quarter of section twenty four, and thirty acres of the south half of the West half of the South West quarter in Section sixteen, all in Township number twelve, Range 5 East, in all two hundred and sixty eight acres.

William Bker Dr[?] to Eight acres south east [?]
Isham Davis Dr[?] to 6 acres “ “
one two horse waggon and sheet and [illegible], one ox waggon, one mare 4 years old, one mare two years old, one horse two years old, one horse supposed to be 14 years old, Seventeen head of sheep, 11 of new lambs, 11 five year old heifers, ten yearling steers, three cows and calves, seventeen heifer yearlings and Jersey[?] calf, one three year old Bull, Twenty pork[?] hogs, A set of Blacksmith tools, 3 Cl[illegible] Two Pl[illegible] and Three [illegible], one pair of doublelaces, and a pair of stretchers, Three single [illegible], and two [four illegible words], Three pair of [illegible], Five mare[?] saddles and a [illegible] saddle and 3 bridles, Two [illegible] cradles[?] and one [illegible] hook, one [illegible] hoe and spade, one clock and a pair of steelyards, one wash pot, and a linen pot, and a pair of hooks, two [illegible] and a skillet, and two shovels, one pair of Andersons[?] and a [illegible], Sixteen books, one arithmatic, and a Slate, 8 sett and a half of cups and saucers, one, one sett and a half of Plates and a sett of knives and forks, and 3 gallon jugs, 3 stone crocks, and a Milck Pitcher, one ceder chain[?], two painted Buckets, and washing tub and half bushel, two tubs, one barrel, and four hogshead, one meal tub, Twentyfive pounds of wool Rolls, and 30 hand full of flax, two wheels, 3 fancy bedsteads, 3 pair of Plain bedsteads, two oxes and a hand saw, one six quarter auger, one meh[?] chisel, and 2 [illegible], one smoothing iron, Three beds and bedding and a bow[?] and [illegible] seed[?], Six chairs and half a wheat face, 80 bushels of wheat, 300 bushels of old corn, five hundred dozen of oats, four hundred feet of plank, and a pair of sled runners, one table and a chest, and table cloth, fourteen dollars worth of medicine, Thirtyfive [illegible] and a ground[?] stove, and a pair of sheep shears, one pitchfork and a briar scythe, a one gallon jug, one fat stand and sope[?], one [illegible] square, one candle stick and moles[?], one bundle[?] and a half of spun cotton, one few[?] of coal, and meal sive[?], one [illegible] wedge, fifty stock hogs,

Inventory continued
Money on hand - $3.37 ½
William Weeks Do - 1.00
Elisha Waggoner Do - 50
Thomas Baugher Do - 75
Josiah B Tull Do - 36
William Davis Do - 2.37 ½
James Rouse Do doubtfull - 30
[illegible] Womack Do - 1.12 ½
Jane[?] Siler Do - 60
John Rose Do - 127
William Waker Do - 257
Martin [illegible] Do - 1.00
Robert Robertson Do - 1.25
James [illegible] Do - 2.00
P.S.[?] Turley - 1.00
Benjamin Siler Do desperate - 9.73
Jordan[?] Little desperate - 1.50
John [illegible] Do - 2.00
Evan Baker Do - 13.00
John Wiger Do - 2.75
Charles Davis Do - 75
John Lankford Do - 5.96
Allen Andes Do - 2.00
James Weeks Do - 5.81 ¼
Jacob Walles[?] Do - 3.37 ½
Isaac Curry Do - 1.75
Samuel Lankford Do - 50
Margaret Shaw - 1.87 ½
Peter F. Warren - 1.75
James Townly[?] - 75
John Lilly[?] - 1.00
James F. Wallis - 62 ½
Benjamin Weeks - 37 ½
[illegible] Hamilton desperate - 1.00
Andrew J Cox - 50
John McGraw[?] Doubtful - 25.00
Gideon[?] Edward - 25

We do hereby certify the foregoing[?] to be a full and perfect inventory of the real and personal Estate together with the money on hand, note, and accounts of Daniel Davis, dec’d, so far as the same has come to our sight and knowledge, given under our hands, this 31st day of August AD 1848.

Isham Davis
William F. Tull
Executors

September 4th 1848 On this day the following appraisement was filed examined and approved and is hereby ordered to record
David Evoy, F.J.P.

An appraisement bill of the goods and chattles of Daniel Davis deceased this 31st of August AD 1848
One waggon - $25.00
One piece[?] of charcoal - 2.45
One set of blacksmith tools - 35.00
[illegible] plank - 4.00
stretchers, sieve[?], shovel, wedge, and hoop [illegible] - 2.40
300 [illegible] of oats - 30.00
80 Bushels of wheat - 20.00
one two horse waggon and [illegible] and old [two illegible words] - 40.00
A lot of old cows in the milk [?] - 40.00
2 scythes and cradles, one [illegible] hook, and bush scythe - 5.00
3 saddles, one pair of gears, 3 [illegible] teeth, bridles, and one pair of Martingales - 13.00
one little wheel, saddle bags, half bushel, stand - 3.00
Household and kitchen furniture and clock - 50.00
Wool Rolls and big wheel - 6.50
Saw, auger, chisels and square fat stand and [illegible] stand - 2.50
one pair of sled runners - .75
20 fatning hogs - 55.00
30 stock hogs - 30.00
A lot of plows and cl[illegible] - 7.00
One black mare - 45.00
One [illegible] horse - 30.00
One bay filly - 40.00
One bay horse colt - 30.00
One half of a wheat [illegible] - 6.00
one grindstone, 2 axes, 3 [illegible] 3.00
22 head of sheep - 22.00
11 cows and calves - 37.00
11 two year old heifers - 38.00
23 yearlings, 21 of them heifer and 2 steer - 115.00
4 hogshead and a spade, [illegible] - 4.00
one [illegible] 1.30
35 head of geece[?] 7.00

We certify that the foregoing is a true and correct appraisement bill of the goods and chattles of Daniel Davis, deceased the 31st day of August, 1848.

[Illegible]
Alfred Wallis
Davis [Illegible]
Appraisers

Probate Court October 3rd 1848
On this day the following sale bill was filed, examined, and approved and is hereby ordered to record.
David Evoy, F.J.P.
A Bill of sale of personal Estate of Davis deceased
September 30th 1848
John Walden to one large Waggon
$27.25
Joel Reynolds, Crier[?], J.F. Turley, Clerk

On this 4th day of June 1849, came Isam Davis and William F. Tull, executors of Daniel Davis, deceased, and made the following settlement to wit

Amount payable to Executor’s Sale bill
Amount of Inventory recorded by them
For sale of [illegible]

27.25
36.0

63.85
65.00

128.85
1.60

Amount of credit to executors - 5[?]
I[illegible] - $.5
Hannah Davis - $2.00
[illegible] [illegible]ck - .50
David Evoy - probate fees - 11.25
Isham Davis - [illegible] allow[?] - 18.80
Hannah Davis - window - 8.62
William Hyland - coffin - 5.00
[illegible] Cox - [illegible] for medicine - 4.00
David M. Robinson - [illegible] case - 1.08
[illegible] feeds - 2.00
W.F. Johnston - [illegible] and interest - 5.05
Isam Davis - executor for extra [illegible] - 10.93 ¾
William Tull - makes no charge
Isham Davis - Executor [illegible] on 115$ - 6.90
Edward Evoy - probate fees - 2.12
William Baker - note - 52.00
Peter Fleming - Payee [?] - 10.63
J.R. Steward - Payee [?] - 2.00

Grandmother Tamar was a legend long before she died. She was born in Ohio before it was a state. When she was about ten years old her father took his family overland to join a colony organized by Aaron Burr in Mississippi. It was a terrible place and Burr was arrested for some kind of conspiracy. The Davises then headed back to Ohio with some other families. While camped along the trail my grandmother wandered out too far from camp and she was seized and carried away by Indians. The wagon train feared an Indian attack and they had to move out without finding Tamar. It was some renegade Shawnees who took her and probably intended to hold her for ransom, but a trader named Weatherford came along and bought her from the Shawnees. He was part Creek, and was known as Red Eagle, and Tamar lived with his family someplace way down south in Alabama until the War of 1812 when Andrew Jackson burned a Creek village in which Tamar was living. She and some refugees from that village (it was a fortification called Horseshoe Bend on the Tallapoosa in Alabama) were found by Elias A. Walker. He was one-quarter Cherokee, but he was in the army. (38tb Regt. East Tenn. Mtd. Volunteers, and I have his service record.)

Elias Walker sent Tamar back to East Tenn. in an empty supply wagon driven by his uncle William Davis, and after finishing his war service he went home and he and Tamar were married by Rev. Daniel Davis, son of the supply contractor. In 1829 Rev. Daniel Davis was in Shelby Co., Ill. and organized the Methodist log meeting house called Upper Sand Creek.

About 1836 my grandparents, Elias and Tamar Walker, joined his cousin Daniel Davis in Shelby, and their daughter Rutha Barbara married Nathan Forrest Tull my parents. My uncle William Forrest Tull married Hannah Davis, daughter of Rev. Daniel, and my aunt Sarah Catherine Tull married William Davis, Jr.

My grandfather, Elias Andes Walker, was part Cherokee through his grandfather John Walker, a trader who married a Cherokee, so through the Walkers we are part Cherokee. Elias A. Walker married Tamar Davis from Ohio. His parents were Elias Walker and Barbara Davis of East Tenn. who were not related to Tamar. Barbara Davises parents were William Davis and his second or third wife who was an Andes. You should talk to my cousin Lucretia Walker Schmidt. She knows more about the Walkers and Davises than I do. (I did - and it is a fantastic story.)

The way I heard it, old Willian Davis of East Tenn. (Washington and Carter Co.) had fifteen children by three wives, and in some way he was related to Jefferson Davis. The Tulls were mixed up with the Davises back in Stokes Co., N.C., but I don't know the connection. All I know is that it was said that the Tulls once bought land in Stokes from a man named Davis, then because of politics, they finally had to rent what they had bought, and later the One-eyed Jack went to Tenn. and bought some land as a promotional deal with Davis of Stokes, and it was near William Davis, but the deal went sour and One- eyed Jack sold out. It seems that the Tulls always had trouble holding onto their land until they came to Shelby Co. I don't know what was wrong, but I suspect that on the frontier most people had trouble getting a title to what they bought, at least that is what I have read in history, and it is what my grandfather spoke of, but he couldn't explain what happened.

Surname, Given names - Year - Comp./Dist.

Davis, Daniel - 1822 - Howard
Davis, Danniel - 1822 - Brown
Davis, Daniel - 1823 - Brown
Davis, Daniel - 1824 - McCray
Davis, Daniel - 1827 - McCray

Surname, Given names - Year - Comp./Dist.

Davis, Daniel - 1817 - Fine
Davis, Daniel - 1818 - Fine
Davis, Daniel - 1821 - Brown

JAMES A. ANDES.

MR. ANDES, who is now engaged in the grain business at Tower Hill, is a native of the county, and was born in Windsor township, on the 5th of March, 1841. On his father's side he is of German descent, though the family has lived in this township fo r several generations. His great-grandfather emigrated from Germany to America, and settled in the State of Pennsylvania. His grandfather was born in Pennsylvania, and at an early period emigrated to East Tennessee, where Allen Andes, father of the subjec t of this sketch, was born. In the year 1837, Allen Andes, then a young man, came to Illinois and settled in Shelby county. In 1838, be married Elizabeth Davis, who was born in Greenbrier county, Virginia. He began farming on Sand Creek, in Windsor townsh ip. James A. Andes was the third of a family of twelve children. His mother died in Windsor township, and his father in Tower Hill township. He was married in Windsor township, and his home was in that part of the county till he was twenty-five years of a ge. The educational advantages existing in his boyhood were comparatively limited. The schools were held in log school-houses, and had by no means reached their present state of efficiency. He improved his opportunities as best he could, and partly in stu dy by himself acquired the elements of a good education. At the age of eighteen he began teaching on Upper Sand Creek, in Windsor township. Many of his pupils were older and larger than himself. He taught three winters, and then for two terms attended the old seminary at Shelbyville, under C. W. Jerome. He afterwards taught school several years. He has taught in the county twelve winters altogether, in Windsor, Okaw, Tower Hill and Big Spring townships. His marriage took place on the 14th of March, 1865, to Sarah E. Selby, daughter of James M. and Lydia M. Selby. Mrs. Andes was born in Okaw township, and her parents were among the early settlers of that part of the county. Her grandfather came to this county from Kentucky. Her father was born in Kentucky, and was a boy when the family became residents of Shelby county.

Her mother, Lydia M. Skeen, was a native of the state, and was born in Effingham county.

In the fall of 1865, Mr. Andes purchased a farm in Tower Hill township, and has since been a resident of that part of the county. In 1872, he began the grain business at Tower Hill, which he has since carried on. His residence is in the village of Tower H ill, though he owns a farm adjoining the town. In his political belief he was originally a Republican. By his first vote for President, cast in 1864, he assisted to elect Lincoln to his second term. He continued a Republican till 1874, when he became conv inced that the legislation of the country was conducted in favor of capital and to the injury of the laboring and productive classes, and he then joined the Greenback party. He was one of the first members of that political organization in his part of the county, and has remained steadfast in his adherence to its principles. He is known as a man of strict personal integrity and business capacity. At different times he has filled the office of assessor, collector and clerk of Tower Hill township. He has tw o children, Luella and Minnie Andes. For a number of years be has been connected with the Methodist Church. He is a man of liberal opinions and progressive views, and is popular as a business man.

Daniel Davis was one among the first settlers at the head of Sand creek; he was a blacksmith, although not an expert in his trade. He could mend a chain or clevis, and at that time was considered a very useful citizen. He sometimes preached to the early settlers.

WILLIAM F. TULL, one of tin- oldest resi-
dents, and one of those most worthy of
honor in Windsor Township, Shelby
County, resides mi section 20, ami was born in
Bedford County, Tenn., January 9, 1819. His
parents were Daniel anil Sallie (Baw) Tull, both
natives of North Carolina, who married there and
soon after returned to Tennessee, where they re-
mained until 1829. At this time they emigrated
to Illinois, and settled in Shelby County. Our
-iil>ject was the eighth in a family of nine,
and all are deceased except this son and Iris
brother, Nathan P., who resides in the village of
Windsor.

Mr. Tull was hut a lad of eleven years when
his parents located in Shelby County, yet he
has a vivid recollection of the trip across the coun-
try, with a six-horse team, and often recalls the
wild and unimproved condition of the country
and the sparsely peopled section- through which
they traveled. Shelbyville, now a promising
city of live thousand inhabitants, was then a
little trading post, composed of a few log shanties.

In tin- fall of 1838 this young man (then only
nineteen year- old) took to himself a wife in the
person of Miss Hannah Davis, who «;i- also a ua-
tive of East Tennessee, where she was bora Decem-
ber "27. 1821. Her parent-, like his, came to Shelby
( ounty in the early days, and located in Windsor
Township in 1828, and there spent the re-
mainder Of their live-. That young couple
in due time became the parents of :i truh
patriarchal Hock, fifteen children being horn to
them.

The seven children who are still living an- as
follows: Sallie. Mrs. Cane, now fifty-one Mar-



old, and lives in this town-hip; Josiah has been a
cripple since he wa- eighteen months old. and has
always been cared for by hi- parents; Harriet is
unmarried and lives at home: Catherine, now Mrs.
Moobery, lives in this township, as does also
Jonathan, who is married; .lames and Nathan F.
are at home and unmarried, and working on the
old homestead, although they have both reached
mature years.

This beautiful old couple have enjoyed each

other's society in wedded life for over fifty-two
year-, and both give promise of many more years
of health and cheer. They speak in the highest
term- of tin- lilial affection and obedience of their
children, with whom ihe\ have never had an un-
pleasant or discordant word. Mr. Tull has been a
life-long Democrat, and has ever been a recognized
leader in his township. His middle name is For-
rest a- he wa- named for the father of the noted
Confederate General, that general being a play-
mate of Mr. Tull 's. Lor many years this couple
were members of the Methodist Episcopal Church,
but at the tiuieof the division of that body during
the war. they withdrew and joined the Christian
Union Church.

Daniel Davis was one among the first settlers at the head of Sand creek; he was a blacksmith, although not an expert in his trade. He could mend a chain or clevis, and at that time was considered a very useful citizen. He sometimes preached to the early settlers.

Shelby County
Probate Court Record
Vol 2 Pg 329-334

Probate Court May 26th 1848

On this day the following will was filed, proved, admitted, and is hereby ordered to record.

In the name of God, Amen, I Daniel Davis of the County of Shelby and the State of Illinois, being weak in body but of sound mind and memory, do make, ordain, and establish this to be my last will and testament, hereby revoking all others, and I do hereby appoint Isham Davis and William F. Tull to be the Executors of my last will and testament,
1st, it is my will and desire that all my final debts be paid and that a sufficiency of my personal property be sold for that purpose.
2 After the payment of all my last debts and funeral expenses, it is my will they my dear and beloved wife keep, retain, and enjoy all my real and personal estate free from molestation so long as she should live, or so long as she should remain unmarried, but should [illegible] marry or at her death, it is then my will that my executors should sell all my real and personal property to be equally divided between all of my heirs.
In testimony [illegible] I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my seal, the 25th day of April in the year of our Lord one thousand Eight hundred and forty-eight, signed and acknowledged before us

John S. Turley
James Weeks

Daniel Davis {seal}

State of Illinois
Shelby County

On the 26th day of May AD 1848 came John Turley and James Weeks who being duly sworn according to law, doth in their oath state that they were present and saw the testator sign said will in their presence and acknowledge the same to be his and deed and that they believed the testator to be of sound mind and memory at the time of signing the same.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal this
26th day of May AD 1848
David Evoy, F.J.P.
State of Illinois
Shelby County

Isham Davis and William F. Tull do solemnly swear that the [illegible] last will and testament of the above named Daniel Davis deceased so far as I know and believe, and that we will [illegible] by paying first the debts and then the legacies mentioned therein so far as his goods and cattles will thereunto extend and the law charges us, and that we will make a true and perfect inventory of all such goods and cattles, rights and creditors, as may come to our hands and knowledge belonging to the estate of the said deceased and [illegible] a fair and just account of our Executorship when thereunto required by law to the best of our knowledge and abilities, so help us God.

Isham Davis (his mark)
William F. Tull
Executor

Sworn to and subscribed before me this 26th day of May AD 1848, David Evoy, F.J.P.

Probate Court May 26th, 1848

Estate of Daniel Davis, dec’d, continued

On this the following bond was filed and affirmed and is hereby ordered to record. David Evoy F.J.P.

[Ilegible] known all men by these presents that we Isham Davis, William F. Tull, Joel Reynolds, John S. Tully, James Weeks, and William Baker of the County of Shelby and State of Illinois are held and firmly bound unto the People of the State of Illinois in the final sum of thirty-six hundred dollars, current money of the United States, for the payment of which well and truly to be made, we and each of us do bind ourselves, our heirs, executors, and administrators, jointly, severally, and firmly by these presents. Witness our hands and seals, this 26th day of May in the year of our Lord, one thousand eight hundred and forty eight.

The condition of the above obligation is such that if the above bound Isham Davis and William F. Tull, executors of the last will and testament of Daniel Davis, deceased, do make, or cause to be made, a true and perfect inventory of all and singular the goods and chattles, rights and credits, [illegible] tenemants [?], and herediments [?], and the rents and profits issuing out of the hands, [illegible], or knowledge of the same Isham Davis and William F. Tull or into the [illegible] of any other person for these and the same so made to exhibit in the court of Probate for the said County of Shelby, as [illegible] by law, and also make and render a fair and just account of this acting, [illegible] as such executors to said court, when thereunto law fully [illegible] and to well and truly fulfill the duties enforced upon them in and of the said will, and shall moreover pay[?] and deliver to the persons entitled thereto, all the legacies and bequests, contained in said will, so far as the Estate of the said testator will thereunto extends [illegible] to the value thereof, and as the law shall charge them and shall in general do all other acts which may from time to time be required of them by them, then this obligation to be void, otherwise to remain in full, freed, and [illegible].

Attest - David Evoy F.J.P.

Ishaw Davis (his mark) {seal}
William F. Tull {seal}
John S. Turley {seal}
Joel Reynolds {seal}
James Weeks {seal}
William Baker {seal}

Probate Court, September 4th, 1848

Estate of Daniel Davis Continued

On this day the following inventory was filed and is hereby ordered to record.

David Evoy, F.J.P.

Inventory of the real Estate, goods, and chattles, notes and account, of the Estate of Daniel Davis late of Shelby County, State of Illinois, deceased.

The south east quarter of the North west quarter of Section twenty four; The East half of the North East quarter of Section twenty three, thirty-eight acres of the South West quarter of the North East quarter of section twenty four, and thirty acres of the south half of the West half of the South West quarter in Section sixteen, all in Township number twelve, Range 5 East, in all two hundred and sixty eight acres.

William Bker Dr[?] to Eight acres south east [?]
Isham Davis Dr[?] to 6 acres “ “
one two horse waggon and sheet and [illegible], one ox waggon, one mare 4 years old, one mare two years old, one horse two years old, one horse supposed to be 14 years old, Seventeen head of sheep, 11 of new lambs, 11 five year old heifers, ten yearling steers, three cows and calves, seventeen heifer yearlings and Jersey[?] calf, one three year old Bull, Twenty pork[?] hogs, A set of Blacksmith tools, 3 Cl[illegible] Two Pl[illegible] and Three [illegible], one pair of doublelaces, and a pair of stretchers, Three single [illegible], and two [four illegible words], Three pair of [illegible], Five mare[?] saddles and a [illegible] saddle and 3 bridles, Two [illegible] cradles[?] and one [illegible] hook, one [illegible] hoe and spade, one clock and a pair of steelyards, one wash pot, and a linen pot, and a pair of hooks, two [illegible] and a skillet, and two shovels, one pair of Andersons[?] and a [illegible], Sixteen books, one arithmatic, and a Slate, 8 sett and a half of cups and saucers, one, one sett and a half of Plates and a sett of knives and forks, and 3 gallon jugs, 3 stone crocks, and a Milck Pitcher, one ceder chain[?], two painted Buckets, and washing tub and half bushel, two tubs, one barrel, and four hogshead, one meal tub, Twentyfive pounds of wool Rolls, and 30 hand full of flax, two wheels, 3 fancy bedsteads, 3 pair of Plain bedsteads, two oxes and a hand saw, one six quarter auger, one meh[?] chisel, and 2 [illegible], one smoothing iron, Three beds and bedding and a bow[?] and [illegible] seed[?], Six chairs and half a wheat face, 80 bushels of wheat, 300 bushels of old corn, five hundred dozen of oats, four hundred feet of plank, and a pair of sled runners, one table and a chest, and table cloth, fourteen dollars worth of medicine, Thirtyfive [illegible] and a ground[?] stove, and a pair of sheep shears, one pitchfork and a briar scythe, a one gallon jug, one fat stand and sope[?], one [illegible] square, one candle stick and moles[?], one bundle[?] and a half of spun cotton, one few[?] of coal, and meal sive[?], one [illegible] wedge, fifty stock hogs,

Inventory continued
Money on hand - $3.37 ½
William Weeks Do - 1.00
Elisha Waggoner Do - 50
Thomas Baugher Do - 75
Josiah B Tull Do - 36
William Davis Do - 2.37 ½
James Rouse Do doubtfull - 30
[illegible] Womack Do - 1.12 ½
Jane[?] Siler Do - 60
John Rose Do - 127
William Waker Do - 257
Martin [illegible] Do - 1.00
Robert Robertson Do - 1.25
James [illegible] Do - 2.00
P.S.[?] Turley - 1.00
Benjamin Siler Do desperate - 9.73
Jordan[?] Little desperate - 1.50
John [illegible] Do - 2.00
Evan Baker Do - 13.00
John Wiger Do - 2.75
Charles Davis Do - 75
John Lankford Do - 5.96
Allen Andes Do - 2.00
James Weeks Do - 5.81 ¼
Jacob Walles[?] Do - 3.37 ½
Isaac Curry Do - 1.75
Samuel Lankford Do - 50
Margaret Shaw - 1.87 ½
Peter F. Warren - 1.75
James Townly[?] - 75
John Lilly[?] - 1.00
James F. Wallis - 62 ½
Benjamin Weeks - 37 ½
[illegible] Hamilton desperate - 1.00
Andrew J Cox - 50
John McGraw[?] Doubtful - 25.00
Gideon[?] Edward - 25

We do hereby certify the foregoing[?] to be a full and perfect inventory of the real and personal Estate together with the money on hand, note, and accounts of Daniel Davis, dec’d, so far as the same has come to our sight and knowledge, given under our hands, this 31st day of August AD 1848.

Isham Davis
William F. Tull
Executors

September 4th 1848 On this day the following appraisement was filed examined and approved and is hereby ordered to record
David Evoy, F.J.P.

An appraisement bill of the goods and chattles of Daniel Davis deceased this 31st of August AD 1848
One waggon - $25.00
One piece[?] of charcoal - 2.45
One set of blacksmith tools - 35.00
[illegible] plank - 4.00
stretchers, sieve[?], shovel, wedge, and hoop [illegible] - 2.40
300 [illegible] of oats - 30.00
80 Bushels of wheat - 20.00
one two horse waggon and [illegible] and old [two illegible words] - 40.00
A lot of old cows in the milk [?] - 40.00
2 scythes and cradles, one [illegible] hook, and bush scythe - 5.00
3 saddles, one pair of gears, 3 [illegible] teeth, bridles, and one pair of Martingales - 13.00
one little wheel, saddle bags, half bushel, stand - 3.00
Household and kitchen furniture and clock - 50.00
Wool Rolls and big wheel - 6.50
Saw, auger, chisels and square fat stand and [illegible] stand - 2.50
one pair of sled runners - .75
20 fatning hogs - 55.00
30 stock hogs - 30.00
A lot of plows and cl[illegible] - 7.00
One black mare - 45.00
One [illegible] horse - 30.00
One bay filly - 40.00
One bay horse colt - 30.00
One half of a wheat [illegible] - 6.00
one grindstone, 2 axes, 3 [illegible] 3.00
22 head of sheep - 22.00
11 cows and calves - 37.00
11 two year old heifers - 38.00
23 yearlings, 21 of them heifer and 2 steer - 115.00
4 hogshead and a spade, [illegible] - 4.00
one [illegible] 1.30
35 head of geece[?] 7.00

We certify that the foregoing is a true and correct appraisement bill of the goods and chattles of Daniel Davis, deceased the 31st day of August, 1848.

[Illegible]
Alfred Wallis
Davis [Illegible]
Appraisers

Probate Court October 3rd 1848
On this day the following sale bill was filed, examined, and approved and is hereby ordered to record.
David Evoy, F.J.P.
A Bill of sale of personal Estate of Davis deceased
September 30th 1848
John Walden to one large Waggon
$27.25
Joel Reynolds, Crier[?], J.F. Turley, Clerk

On this 4th day of June 1849, came Isam Davis and William F. Tull, executors of Daniel Davis, deceased, and made the following settlement to wit

Amount payable to Executor’s Sale bill
Amount of Inventory recorded by them
For sale of [illegible]

27.25
36.0

63.85
65.00

128.85
1.60

Amount of credit to executors - 5[?]
I[illegible] - $.5
Hannah Davis - $2.00
[illegible] [illegible]ck - .50
David Evoy - probate fees - 11.25
Isham Davis - [illegible] allow[?] - 18.80
Hannah Davis - window - 8.62
William Hyland - coffin - 5.00
[illegible] Cox - [illegible] for medicine - 4.00
David M. Robinson - [illegible] case - 1.08
[illegible] feeds - 2.00
W.F. Johnston - [illegible] and interest - 5.05
Isam Davis - executor for extra [illegible] - 10.93 ¾
William Tull - makes no charge
Isham Davis - Executor [illegible] on 115$ - 6.90
Edward Evoy - probate fees - 2.12
William Baker - note - 52.00
Peter Fleming - Payee [?] - 10.63
J.R. Steward - Payee [?] - 2.00

Daniel Davis was one among the first settlers at the head of Sand creek; he was a blacksmith, although not an expert in his trade. He could mend a chain or clevis, and at that time was considered a very useful citizen. He sometimes preached to the early settlers.

Grandmother Tamar was a legend long before she died. She was born in Ohio before it was a state. When she was about ten years old her father took his family overland to join a colony organized by Aaron Burr in Mississippi. It was a terrible place and Burr was arrested for some kind of conspiracy. The Davises then headed back to Ohio with some other families. While camped along the trail my grandmother wandered out too far from camp and she was seized and carried away by Indians. The wagon train feared an Indian attack and they had to move out without finding Tamar. It was some renegade Shawnees who took her and probably intended to hold her for ransom, but a trader named Weatherford came along and bought her from the Shawnees. He was part Creek, and was known as Red Eagle, and Tamar lived with his family someplace way down south in Alabama until the War of 1812 when Andrew Jackson burned a Creek village in which Tamar was living. She and some refugees from that village (it was a fortification called Horseshoe Bend on the Tallapoosa in Alabama) were found by Elias A. Walker. He was one-quarter Cherokee, but he was in the army. (38tb Regt. East Tenn. Mtd. Volunteers, and I have his service record.)

Elias Walker sent Tamar back to East Tenn. in an empty supply wagon driven by his uncle William Davis, and after finishing his war service he went home and he and Tamar were married by Rev. Daniel Davis, son of the supply contractor. In 1829 Rev. Daniel Davis was in Shelby Co., Ill. and organized the Methodist log meeting house called Upper Sand Creek.

About 1836 my grandparents, Elias and Tamar Walker, joined his cousin Daniel Davis in Shelby, and their daughter Rutha Barbara married Nathan Forrest Tull my parents. My uncle William Forrest Tull married Hannah Davis, daughter of Rev. Daniel, and my aunt Sarah Catherine Tull married William Davis, Jr.

My grandfather, Elias Andes Walker, was part Cherokee through his grandfather John Walker, a trader who married a Cherokee, so through the Walkers we are part Cherokee. Elias A. Walker married Tamar Davis from Ohio. His parents were Elias Walker and Barbara Davis of East Tenn. who were not related to Tamar. Barbara Davises parents were William Davis and his second or third wife who was an Andes. You should talk to my cousin Lucretia Walker Schmidt. She knows more about the Walkers and Davises than I do. (I did - and it is a fantastic story.)

The way I heard it, old Willian Davis of East Tenn. (Washington and Carter Co.) had fifteen children by three wives, and in some way he was related to Jefferson Davis. The Tulls were mixed up with the Davises back in Stokes Co., N.C., but I don't know the connection. All I know is that it was said that the Tulls once bought land in Stokes from a man named Davis, then because of politics, they finally had to rent what they had bought, and later the One-eyed Jack went to Tenn. and bought some land as a promotional deal with Davis of Stokes, and it was near William Davis, but the deal went sour and One- eyed Jack sold out. It seems that the Tulls always had trouble holding onto their land until they came to Shelby Co. I don't know what was wrong, but I suspect that on the frontier most people had trouble getting a title to what they bought, at least that is what I have read in history, and it is what my grandfather spoke of, but he couldn't explain what happened.

Name:
Daniel Davis
Home in 1830 (City, County, State):
Precinct 4, Shelby, Illinois
Free White Persons - Males - Under 5:
1
Free White Persons - Males - 15 thru 19:
2
Free White Persons - Males - 40 thru 49:
1
Free White Persons - Females - Under 5:
1
Free White Persons - Females - 5 thru 9:
2
Free White Persons - Females - 10 thru 14:
1
Free White Persons - Females - 20 thru 29:
1
Free White Persons - Females - 40 thru 49:
1
Free White Persons - Under 20:
7
Free White Persons - 20 thru 49:
3
Total Free White Persons:
10
Total - All Persons (Free White, Slaves, Free Colored):
10

Name:
Daniel Davis
Issue Date:
1 Oct 1833
Acres:
80
Meridian:
3rd PM
State:
Illinois
County:
Shelby
Township:
12-N
Range:
5-E
Section:
23
Accession Number:
IL0290__.042
Metes and Bounds:
No
Land Office:
Vandalia
Canceled:
No
US Reservations:
No
Mineral Reservations:
No
Authority:
April 24, 1820: Sale-Cash Entry (3 Stat. 566)
Document Number:
525

Source Information:
Ancestry.com. U.S. General Land Office Records, 1796-1907 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2008.
Original data: United States. Bureau of Land Management, General Land Office Records. Automated Records Project; Federal Land Patents, State Volumes.http://www.glorecords.blm.gov/. Springfield, Virginia: Bureau of Land Management, Eastern States, 2007.

1837

Daniel Davis and Hannah his wife

10 acres

Township: 12N

Range: 5E

Shelby County
Deed Record
Vol 3 Page 282-283

[mostly illegible]

April 1838

Daniel Davis and Hannah his wife

Selling to Daniel Penn

$50.00

40 acres

State: Illinois

Meridian: 3rd PM

Township:12N

Range: 5E

Section: 24

Aliquots: SW ¼ SW ¼

Shelby County
Deed Record
Vol 11 Pages 485-486

This Indenture made and entered into this 2nd day of April in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty nine Between Daniel Davis and Hannah his wife of the county of Shelby and the State of Illinois of the first part, and Daniel Penn native of the county of Shelby and State of Illinois of the second part. Witnesseth that the said party of the first part for and in consideration of the sum of fifty dollars in hand paid by the said party of the second part, the receipt whereof is hereby acknowledged, have granted, bargained, sold, remised, released, and forever quit claim unto the said party of the second part, his heirs, and assigns all our interest in and to a certain tract of land, or lot of ground situate lying and being in the county of Shelby and the state of Illinois, and known as the south west quarter of the south west quarter of Section No. Twenty-four Township No Twelve North of range No five East of the third principal containing forty acres.

To have and to hold the aforesaid tract of land or lot of ground together with all and singular the rights, profits, [illegible], hereditaments, and appurtenances thereunto belonging as in any [illegible] thereunto [illegible] - containing to the [illegible] for [illegible] use [illegible] and behoof of him the said party of the second part his heirs and assigns forever. And the part of the first part do covenant to and with the said party of the second part, that they will forever warrant and defend the said tract of land from the claim of themselves, the said party of the first part, their heirs and assigns, and against the claim or claims of any other person or persons whomsoever.

Our Testimony whereof the party of the first part have hereunto set their hands and seals the day and year first above mentioned.

Signed, sealed, and delivered in person by us
Daniel Davis {seal}
Hannah Davis (her mark) {seal}

State of Illinois
Shelby County
Be it remembered that on this day, personally came before the undersigned one of the justices of the peace in and for said county Daniel Davis and Hannah his wife who are personally known to said justice to be the very individuals persons whose names appears subscribed to the with deed of conveyance and who then before said justice acknowledged that they signed sealed and delivered said deed for the uses and purposes therein mentioned. And the wife being by me examined separate and apart from her husband sayeth that she signed said deed freely and voluntarily and not through fear or compulsion of her said husband.

Taken and acknowledged before me this 2nd day of April 1839.

J.S. Turley, J.D.

Filed for Record
August 22nd 1851

Name:
Daniel Davis
Home in 1840 (City, County, State):
Shelby, Illinois
Free White Persons - Males - 5 thru 9:
2
Free White Persons - Males - 50 thru 59:
1
Free White Persons - Females - 10 thru 14:
1
Free White Persons - Females - 50 thru 59:
1
Persons Employed in Agriculture:
2
Free White Persons - Under 20:
3
Total Free White Persons:
5
Total All Persons - Free White, Free Colored, Slaves:
5






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Shelby County
Probate Court Record
Vol 2 Pg 329-334

Probate Court May 26th 1848

On this day the following will was filed, proved, admitted, and is hereby ordered to record.

In the name of God, Amen, I Daniel Davis of the County of Shelby and the State of Illinois, being weak in body but of sound mind and memory, do make, ordain, and establish this to be my last will and testament, hereby revoking all others, and I do hereby appoint Isham Davis and William F. Tull to be the Executors of my last will and testament,
1st, it is my will and desire that all my final debts be paid and that a sufficiency of my personal property be sold for that purpose.
2 After the payment of all my last debts and funeral expenses, it is my will they my dear and beloved wife keep, retain, and enjoy all my real and personal estate free from molestation so long as she should live, or so long as she should remain unmarried, but should [illegible] marry or at her death, it is then my will that my executors should sell all my real and personal property to be equally divided between all of my heirs.
In testimony [illegible] I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my seal, the 25th day of April in the year of our Lord one thousand Eight hundred and forty-eight, signed and acknowledged before us

John S. Turley
James Weeks

Daniel Davis {seal}

State of Illinois
Shelby County

On the 26th day of May AD 1848 came John Turley and James Weeks who being duly sworn according to law, doth in their oath state that they were present and saw the testator sign said will in their presence and acknowledge the same to be his and deed and that they believed the testator to be of sound mind and memory at the time of signing the same.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal this
26th day of May AD 1848
David Evoy, F.J.P.
State of Illinois
Shelby County

Isham Davis and William F. Tull do solemnly swear that the [illegible] last will and testament of the above named Daniel Davis deceased so far as I know and believe, and that we will [illegible] by paying first the debts and then the legacies mentioned therein so far as his goods and cattles will thereunto extend and the law charges us, and that we will make a true and perfect inventory of all such goods and cattles, rights and creditors, as may come to our hands and knowledge belonging to the estate of the said deceased and [illegible] a fair and just account of our Executorship when thereunto required by law to the best of our knowledge and abilities, so help us God.

Isham Davis (his mark)
William F. Tull
Executor

Sworn to and subscribed before me this 26th day of May AD 1848, David Evoy, F.J.P.

Probate Court May 26th, 1848

Estate of Daniel Davis, dec’d, continued

On this the following bond was filed and affirmed and is hereby ordered to record. David Evoy F.J.P.

[Ilegible] known all men by these presents that we Isham Davis, William F. Tull, Joel Reynolds, John S. Tully, James Weeks, and William Baker of the County of Shelby and State of Illinois are held and firmly bound unto the People of the State of Illinois in the final sum of thirty-six hundred dollars, current money of the United States, for the payment of which well and truly to be made, we and each of us do bind ourselves, our heirs, executors, and administrators, jointly, severally, and firmly by these presents. Witness our hands and seals, this 26th day of May in the year of our Lord, one thousand eight hundred and forty eight.

The condition of the above obligation is such that if the above bound Isham Davis and William F. Tull, executors of the last will and testament of Daniel Davis, deceased, do make, or cause to be made, a true and perfect inventory of all and singular the goods and chattles, rights and credits, [illegible] tenemants [?], and herediments [?], and the rents and profits issuing out of the hands, [illegible], or knowledge of the same Isham Davis and William F. Tull or into the [illegible] of any other person for these and the same so made to exhibit in the court of Probate for the said County of Shelby, as [illegible] by law, and also make and render a fair and just account of this acting, [illegible] as such executors to said court, when thereunto law fully [illegible] and to well and truly fulfill the duties enforced upon them in and of the said will, and shall moreover pay[?] and deliver to the persons entitled thereto, all the legacies and bequests, contained in said will, so far as the Estate of the said testator will thereunto extends [illegible] to the value thereof, and as the law shall charge them and shall in general do all other acts which may from time to time be required of them by them, then this obligation to be void, otherwise to remain in full, freed, and [illegible].

Attest - David Evoy F.J.P.

Ishaw Davis (his mark) {seal}
William F. Tull {seal}
John S. Turley {seal}
Joel Reynolds {seal}
James Weeks {seal}
William Baker {seal}

Probate Court, September 4th, 1848

Estate of Daniel Davis Continued

On this day the following inventory was filed and is hereby ordered to record.

David Evoy, F.J.P.

Inventory of the real Estate, goods, and chattles, notes and account, of the Estate of Daniel Davis late of Shelby County, State of Illinois, deceased.

The south east quarter of the North west quarter of Section twenty four; The East half of the North East quarter of Section twenty three, thirty-eight acres of the South West quarter of the North East quarter of section twenty four, and thirty acres of the south half of the West half of the South West quarter in Section sixteen, all in Township number twelve, Range 5 East, in all two hundred and sixty eight acres.

William Bker Dr[?] to Eight acres south east [?]
Isham Davis Dr[?] to 6 acres “ “
one two horse waggon and sheet and [illegible], one ox waggon, one mare 4 years old, one mare two years old, one horse two years old, one horse supposed to be 14 years old, Seventeen head of sheep, 11 of new lambs, 11 five year old heifers, ten yearling steers, three cows and calves, seventeen heifer yearlings and Jersey[?] calf, one three year old Bull, Twenty pork[?] hogs, A set of Blacksmith tools, 3 Cl[illegible] Two Pl[illegible] and Three [illegible], one pair of doublelaces, and a pair of stretchers, Three single [illegible], and two [four illegible words], Three pair of [illegible], Five mare[?] saddles and a [illegible] saddle and 3 bridles, Two [illegible] cradles[?] and one [illegible] hook, one [illegible] hoe and spade, one clock and a pair of steelyards, one wash pot, and a linen pot, and a pair of hooks, two [illegible] and a skillet, and two shovels, one pair of Andersons[?] and a [illegible], Sixteen books, one arithmatic, and a Slate, 8 sett and a half of cups and saucers, one, one sett and a half of Plates and a sett of knives and forks, and 3 gallon jugs, 3 stone crocks, and a Milck Pitcher, one ceder chain[?], two painted Buckets, and washing tub and half bushel, two tubs, one barrel, and four hogshead, one meal tub, Twentyfive pounds of wool Rolls, and 30 hand full of flax, two wheels, 3 fancy bedsteads, 3 pair of Plain bedsteads, two oxes and a hand saw, one six quarter auger, one meh[?] chisel, and 2 [illegible], one smoothing iron, Three beds and bedding and a bow[?] and [illegible] seed[?], Six chairs and half a wheat face, 80 bushels of wheat, 300 bushels of old corn, five hundred dozen of oats, four hundred feet of plank, and a pair of sled runners, one table and a chest, and table cloth, fourteen dollars worth of medicine, Thirtyfive [illegible] and a ground[?] stove, and a pair of sheep shears, one pitchfork and a briar scythe, a one gallon jug, one fat stand and sope[?], one [illegible] square, one candle stick and moles[?], one bundle[?] and a half of spun cotton, one few[?] of coal, and meal sive[?], one [illegible] wedge, fifty stock hogs,

Inventory continued
Money on hand - $3.37 ½
William Weeks Do - 1.00
Elisha Waggoner Do - 50
Thomas Baugher Do - 75
Josiah B Tull Do - 36
William Davis Do - 2.37 ½
James Rouse Do doubtfull - 30
[illegible] Womack Do - 1.12 ½
Jane[?] Siler Do - 60
John Rose Do - 127
William Waker Do - 257
Martin [illegible] Do - 1.00
Robert Robertson Do - 1.25
James [illegible] Do - 2.00
P.S.[?] Turley - 1.00
Benjamin Siler Do desperate - 9.73
Jordan[?] Little desperate - 1.50
John [illegible] Do - 2.00
Evan Baker Do - 13.00
John Wiger Do - 2.75
Charles Davis Do - 75
John Lankford Do - 5.96
Allen Andes Do - 2.00
James Weeks Do - 5.81 ¼
Jacob Walles[?] Do - 3.37 ½
Isaac Curry Do - 1.75
Samuel Lankford Do - 50
Margaret Shaw - 1.87 ½
Peter F. Warren - 1.75
James Townly[?] - 75
John Lilly[?] - 1.00
James F. Wallis - 62 ½
Benjamin Weeks - 37 ½
[illegible] Hamilton desperate - 1.00
Andrew J Cox - 50
John McGraw[?] Doubtful - 25.00
Gideon[?] Edward - 25

We do hereby certify the foregoing[?] to be a full and perfect inventory of the real and personal Estate together with the money on hand, note, and accounts of Daniel Davis, dec’d, so far as the same has come to our sight and knowledge, given under our hands, this 31st day of August AD 1848.

Isham Davis
William F. Tull
Executors

September 4th 1848 On this day the following appraisement was filed examined and approved and is hereby ordered to record
David Evoy, F.J.P.

An appraisement bill of the goods and chattles of Daniel Davis deceased this 31st of August AD 1848
One waggon - $25.00
One piece[?] of charcoal - 2.45
One set of blacksmith tools - 35.00
[illegible] plank - 4.00
stretchers, sieve[?], shovel, wedge, and hoop [illegible] - 2.40
300 [illegible] of oats - 30.00
80 Bushels of wheat - 20.00
one two horse waggon and [illegible] and old [two illegible words] - 40.00
A lot of old cows in the milk [?] - 40.00
2 scythes and cradles, one [illegible] hook, and bush scythe - 5.00
3 saddles, one pair of gears, 3 [illegible] teeth, bridles, and one pair of Martingales - 13.00
one little wheel, saddle bags, half bushel, stand - 3.00
Household and kitchen furniture and clock - 50.00
Wool Rolls and big wheel - 6.50
Saw, auger, chisels and square fat stand and [illegible] stand - 2.50
one pair of sled runners - .75
20 fatning hogs - 55.00
30 stock hogs - 30.00
A lot of plows and cl[illegible] - 7.00
One black mare - 45.00
One [illegible] horse - 30.00
One bay filly - 40.00
One bay horse colt - 30.00
One half of a wheat [illegible] - 6.00
one grindstone, 2 axes, 3 [illegible] 3.00
22 head of sheep - 22.00
11 cows and calves - 37.00
11 two year old heifers - 38.00
23 yearlings, 21 of them heifer and 2 steer - 115.00
4 hogshead and a spade, [illegible] - 4.00
one [illegible] 1.30
35 head of geece[?] 7.00

We certify that the foregoing is a true and correct appraisement bill of the goods and chattles of Daniel Davis, deceased the 31st day of August, 1848.

[Illegible]
Alfred Wallis
Davis [Illegible]
Appraisers

Probate Court October 3rd 1848
On this day the following sale bill was filed, examined, and approved and is hereby ordered to record.
David Evoy, F.J.P.
A Bill of sale of personal Estate of Davis deceased
September 30th 1848
John Walden to one large Waggon
$27.25
Joel Reynolds, Crier[?], J.F. Turley, Clerk

On this 4th day of June 1849, came Isam Davis and William F. Tull, executors of Daniel Davis, deceased, and made the following settlement to wit

Amount payable to Executor’s Sale bill
Amount of Inventory recorded by them
For sale of [illegible]

27.25
36.0

63.85
65.00

128.85
1.60

Amount of credit to executors - 5[?]
I[illegible] - $.5
Hannah Davis - $2.00
[illegible] [illegible]ck - .50
David Evoy - probate fees - 11.25
Isham Davis - [illegible] allow[?] - 18.80
Hannah Davis - window - 8.62
William Hyland - coffin - 5.00
[illegible] Cox - [illegible] for medicine - 4.00
David M. Robinson - [illegible] case - 1.08
[illegible] feeds - 2.00
W.F. Johnston - [illegible] and interest - 5.05
Isam Davis - executor for extra [illegible] - 10.93 ¾
William Tull - makes no charge
Isham Davis - Executor [illegible] on 115$ - 6.90
Edward Evoy - probate fees - 2.12
William Baker - note - 52.00
Peter Fleming - Payee [?] - 10.63
J.R. Steward - Payee [?] - 2.00

Shelby County
Probate Court Record
Vol 2 Pg 329-334

Probate Court May 26th 1848

On this day the following will was filed, proved, admitted, and is hereby ordered to record.

In the name of God, Amen, I Daniel Davis of the County of Shelby and the State of Illinois, being weak in body but of sound mind and memory, do make, ordain, and establish this to be my last will and testament, hereby revoking all others, and I do hereby appoint Isham Davis and William F. Tull to be the Executors of my last will and testament,
1st, it is my will and desire that all my final debts be paid and that a sufficiency of my personal property be sold for that purpose.
2 After the payment of all my last debts and funeral expenses, it is my will they my dear and beloved wife keep, retain, and enjoy all my real and personal estate free from molestation so long as she should live, or so long as she should remain unmarried, but should [illegible] marry or at her death, it is then my will that my executors should sell all my real and personal property to be equally divided between all of my heirs.
In testimony [illegible] I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my seal, the 25th day of April in the year of our Lord one thousand Eight hundred and forty-eight, signed and acknowledged before us

John S. Turley
James Weeks

Daniel Davis {seal}

State of Illinois
Shelby County

On the 26th day of May AD 1848 came John Turley and James Weeks who being duly sworn according to law, doth in their oath state that they were present and saw the testator sign said will in their presence and acknowledge the same to be his and deed and that they believed the testator to be of sound mind and memory at the time of signing the same.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal this
26th day of May AD 1848
David Evoy, F.J.P.
State of Illinois
Shelby County

Isham Davis and William F. Tull do solemnly swear that the [illegible] last will and testament of the above named Daniel Davis deceased so far as I know and believe, and that we will [illegible] by paying first the debts and then the legacies mentioned therein so far as his goods and cattles will thereunto extend and the law charges us, and that we will make a true and perfect inventory of all such goods and cattles, rights and creditors, as may come to our hands and knowledge belonging to the estate of the said deceased and [illegible] a fair and just account of our Executorship when thereunto required by law to the best of our knowledge and abilities, so help us God.

Isham Davis (his mark)
William F. Tull
Executor

Sworn to and subscribed before me this 26th day of May AD 1848, David Evoy, F.J.P.

Probate Court May 26th, 1848

Estate of Daniel Davis, dec’d, continued

On this the following bond was filed and affirmed and is hereby ordered to record. David Evoy F.J.P.

[Ilegible] known all men by these presents that we Isham Davis, William F. Tull, Joel Reynolds, John S. Tully, James Weeks, and William Baker of the County of Shelby and State of Illinois are held and firmly bound unto the People of the State of Illinois in the final sum of thirty-six hundred dollars, current money of the United States, for the payment of which well and truly to be made, we and each of us do bind ourselves, our heirs, executors, and administrators, jointly, severally, and firmly by these presents. Witness our hands and seals, this 26th day of May in the year of our Lord, one thousand eight hundred and forty eight.

The condition of the above obligation is such that if the above bound Isham Davis and William F. Tull, executors of the last will and testament of Daniel Davis, deceased, do make, or cause to be made, a true and perfect inventory of all and singular the goods and chattles, rights and credits, [illegible] tenemants [?], and herediments [?], and the rents and profits issuing out of the hands, [illegible], or knowledge of the same Isham Davis and William F. Tull or into the [illegible] of any other person for these and the same so made to exhibit in the court of Probate for the said County of Shelby, as [illegible] by law, and also make and render a fair and just account of this acting, [illegible] as such executors to said court, when thereunto law fully [illegible] and to well and truly fulfill the duties enforced upon them in and of the said will, and shall moreover pay[?] and deliver to the persons entitled thereto, all the legacies and bequests, contained in said will, so far as the Estate of the said testator will thereunto extends [illegible] to the value thereof, and as the law shall charge them and shall in general do all other acts which may from time to time be required of them by them, then this obligation to be void, otherwise to remain in full, freed, and [illegible].

Attest - David Evoy F.J.P.

Ishaw Davis (his mark) {seal}
William F. Tull {seal}
John S. Turley {seal}
Joel Reynolds {seal}
James Weeks {seal}
William Baker {seal}

Probate Court, September 4th, 1848

Estate of Daniel Davis Continued

On this day the following inventory was filed and is hereby ordered to record.

David Evoy, F.J.P.

Inventory of the real Estate, goods, and chattles, notes and account, of the Estate of Daniel Davis late of Shelby County, State of Illinois, deceased.

The south east quarter of the North west quarter of Section twenty four; The East half of the North East quarter of Section twenty three, thirty-eight acres of the South West quarter of the North East quarter of section twenty four, and thirty acres of the south half of the West half of the South West quarter in Section sixteen, all in Township number twelve, Range 5 East, in all two hundred and sixty eight acres.

William Bker Dr[?] to Eight acres south east [?]
Isham Davis Dr[?] to 6 acres “ “
one two horse waggon and sheet and [illegible], one ox waggon, one mare 4 years old, one mare two years old, one horse two years old, one horse supposed to be 14 years old, Seventeen head of sheep, 11 of new lambs, 11 five year old heifers, ten yearling steers, three cows and calves, seventeen heifer yearlings and Jersey[?] calf, one three year old Bull, Twenty pork[?] hogs, A set of Blacksmith tools, 3 Cl[illegible] Two Pl[illegible] and Three [illegible], one pair of doublelaces, and a pair of stretchers, Three single [illegible], and two [four illegible words], Three pair of [illegible], Five mare[?] saddles and a [illegible] saddle and 3 bridles, Two [illegible] cradles[?] and one [illegible] hook, one [illegible] hoe and spade, one clock and a pair of steelyards, one wash pot, and a linen pot, and a pair of hooks, two [illegible] and a skillet, and two shovels, one pair of Andersons[?] and a [illegible], Sixteen books, one arithmatic, and a Slate, 8 sett and a half of cups and saucers, one, one sett and a half of Plates and a sett of knives and forks, and 3 gallon jugs, 3 stone crocks, and a Milck Pitcher, one ceder chain[?], two painted Buckets, and washing tub and half bushel, two tubs, one barrel, and four hogshead, one meal tub, Twentyfive pounds of wool Rolls, and 30 hand full of flax, two wheels, 3 fancy bedsteads, 3 pair of Plain bedsteads, two oxes and a hand saw, one six quarter auger, one meh[?] chisel, and 2 [illegible], one smoothing iron, Three beds and bedding and a bow[?] and [illegible] seed[?], Six chairs and half a wheat face, 80 bushels of wheat, 300 bushels of old corn, five hundred dozen of oats, four hundred feet of plank, and a pair of sled runners, one table and a chest, and table cloth, fourteen dollars worth of medicine, Thirtyfive [illegible] and a ground[?] stove, and a pair of sheep shears, one pitchfork and a briar scythe, a one gallon jug, one fat stand and sope[?], one [illegible] square, one candle stick and moles[?], one bundle[?] and a half of spun cotton, one few[?] of coal, and meal sive[?], one [illegible] wedge, fifty stock hogs,

Inventory continued
Money on hand - $3.37 ½
William Weeks Do - 1.00
Elisha Waggoner Do - 50
Thomas Baugher Do - 75
Josiah B Tull Do - 36
William Davis Do - 2.37 ½
James Rouse Do doubtfull - 30
[illegible] Womack Do - 1.12 ½
Jane[?] Siler Do - 60
John Rose Do - 127
William Waker Do - 257
Martin [illegible] Do - 1.00
Robert Robertson Do - 1.25
James [illegible] Do - 2.00
P.S.[?] Turley - 1.00
Benjamin Siler Do desperate - 9.73
Jordan[?] Little desperate - 1.50
John [illegible] Do - 2.00
Evan Baker Do - 13.00
John Wiger Do - 2.75
Charles Davis Do - 75
John Lankford Do - 5.96
Allen Andes Do - 2.00
James Weeks Do - 5.81 ¼
Jacob Walles[?] Do - 3.37 ½
Isaac Curry Do - 1.75
Samuel Lankford Do - 50
Margaret Shaw - 1.87 ½
Peter F. Warren - 1.75
James Townly[?] - 75
John Lilly[?] - 1.00
James F. Wallis - 62 ½
Benjamin Weeks - 37 ½
[illegible] Hamilton desperate - 1.00
Andrew J Cox - 50
John McGraw[?] Doubtful - 25.00
Gideon[?] Edward - 25

We do hereby certify the foregoing[?] to be a full and perfect inventory of the real and personal Estate together with the money on hand, note, and accounts of Daniel Davis, dec’d, so far as the same has come to our sight and knowledge, given under our hands, this 31st day of August AD 1848.

Isham Davis
William F. Tull
Executors

September 4th 1848 On this day the following appraisement was filed examined and approved and is hereby ordered to record
David Evoy, F.J.P.

An appraisement bill of the goods and chattles of Daniel Davis deceased this 31st of August AD 1848
One waggon - $25.00
One piece[?] of charcoal - 2.45
One set of blacksmith tools - 35.00
[illegible] plank - 4.00
stretchers, sieve[?], shovel, wedge, and hoop [illegible] - 2.40
300 [illegible] of oats - 30.00
80 Bushels of wheat - 20.00
one two horse waggon and [illegible] and old [two illegible words] - 40.00
A lot of old cows in the milk [?] - 40.00
2 scythes and cradles, one [illegible] hook, and bush scythe - 5.00
3 saddles, one pair of gears, 3 [illegible] teeth, bridles, and one pair of Martingales - 13.00
one little wheel, saddle bags, half bushel, stand - 3.00
Household and kitchen furniture and clock - 50.00
Wool Rolls and big wheel - 6.50
Saw, auger, chisels and square fat stand and [illegible] stand - 2.50
one pair of sled runners - .75
20 fatning hogs - 55.00
30 stock hogs - 30.00
A lot of plows and cl[illegible] - 7.00
One black mare - 45.00
One [illegible] horse - 30.00
One bay filly - 40.00
One bay horse colt - 30.00
One half of a wheat [illegible] - 6.00
one grindstone, 2 axes, 3 [illegible] 3.00
22 head of sheep - 22.00
11 cows and calves - 37.00
11 two year old heifers - 38.00
23 yearlings, 21 of them heifer and 2 steer - 115.00
4 hogshead and a spade, [illegible] - 4.00
one [illegible] 1.30
35 head of geece[?] 7.00

We certify that the foregoing is a true and correct appraisement bill of the goods and chattles of Daniel Davis, deceased the 31st day of August, 1848.

[Illegible]
Alfred Wallis
Davis [Illegible]
Appraisers

Probate Court October 3rd 1848
On this day the following sale bill was filed, examined, and approved and is hereby ordered to record.
David Evoy, F.J.P.
A Bill of sale of personal Estate of Davis deceased
September 30th 1848
John Walden to one large Waggon
$27.25
Joel Reynolds, Crier[?], J.F. Turley, Clerk

On this 4th day of June 1849, came Isam Davis and William F. Tull, executors of Daniel Davis, deceased, and made the following settlement to wit

Amount payable to Executor’s Sale bill
Amount of Inventory recorded by them
For sale of [illegible]

27.25
36.0

63.85
65.00

128.85
1.60

Amount of credit to executors - 5[?]
I[illegible] - $.5
Hannah Davis - $2.00
[illegible] [illegible]ck - .50
David Evoy - probate fees - 11.25
Isham Davis - [illegible] allow[?] - 18.80
Hannah Davis - window - 8.62
William Hyland - coffin - 5.00
[illegible] Cox - [illegible] for medicine - 4.00
David M. Robinson - [illegible] case - 1.08
[illegible] feeds - 2.00
W.F. Johnston - [illegible] and interest - 5.05
Isam Davis - executor for extra [illegible] - 10.93 ¾
William Tull - makes no charge
Isham Davis - Executor [illegible] on 115$ - 6.90
Edward Evoy - probate fees - 2.12
William Baker - note - 52.00
Peter Fleming - Payee [?] - 10.63
J.R. Steward - Payee [?] - 2.00

Shelby County
Probate Court Record
Vol 2 Pg 329-334

Probate Court May 26th 1848

On this day the following will was filed, proved, admitted, and is hereby ordered to record.

In the name of God, Amen, I Daniel Davis of the County of Shelby and the State of Illinois, being weak in body but of sound mind and memory, do make, ordain, and establish this to be my last will and testament, hereby revoking all others, and I do hereby appoint Isham Davis and William F. Tull to be the Executors of my last will and testament,
1st, it is my will and desire that all my final debts be paid and that a sufficiency of my personal property be sold for that purpose.
2 After the payment of all my last debts and funeral expenses, it is my will they my dear and beloved wife keep, retain, and enjoy all my real and personal estate free from molestation so long as she should live, or so long as she should remain unmarried, but should [illegible] marry or at her death, it is then my will that my executors should sell all my real and personal property to be equally divided between all of my heirs.
In testimony [illegible] I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my seal, the 25th day of April in the year of our Lord one thousand Eight hundred and forty-eight, signed and acknowledged before us

John S. Turley
James Weeks

Daniel Davis {seal}

State of Illinois
Shelby County

On the 26th day of May AD 1848 came John Turley and James Weeks who being duly sworn according to law, doth in their oath state that they were present and saw the testator sign said will in their presence and acknowledge the same to be his and deed and that they believed the testator to be of sound mind and memory at the time of signing the same.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal this
26th day of May AD 1848
David Evoy, F.J.P.
State of Illinois
Shelby County

Isham Davis and William F. Tull do solemnly swear that the [illegible] last will and testament of the above named Daniel Davis deceased so far as I know and believe, and that we will [illegible] by paying first the debts and then the legacies mentioned therein so far as his goods and cattles will thereunto extend and the law charges us, and that we will make a true and perfect inventory of all such goods and cattles, rights and creditors, as may come to our hands and knowledge belonging to the estate of the said deceased and [illegible] a fair and just account of our Executorship when thereunto required by law to the best of our knowledge and abilities, so help us God.

Isham Davis (his mark)
William F. Tull
Executor

Sworn to and subscribed before me this 26th day of May AD 1848, David Evoy, F.J.P.

Probate Court May 26th, 1848

Estate of Daniel Davis, dec’d, continued

On this the following bond was filed and affirmed and is hereby ordered to record. David Evoy F.J.P.

[Ilegible] known all men by these presents that we Isham Davis, William F. Tull, Joel Reynolds, John S. Tully, James Weeks, and William Baker of the County of Shelby and State of Illinois are held and firmly bound unto the People of the State of Illinois in the final sum of thirty-six hundred dollars, current money of the United States, for the payment of which well and truly to be made, we and each of us do bind ourselves, our heirs, executors, and administrators, jointly, severally, and firmly by these presents. Witness our hands and seals, this 26th day of May in the year of our Lord, one thousand eight hundred and forty eight.

The condition of the above obligation is such that if the above bound Isham Davis and William F. Tull, executors of the last will and testament of Daniel Davis, deceased, do make, or cause to be made, a true and perfect inventory of all and singular the goods and chattles, rights and credits, [illegible] tenemants [?], and herediments [?], and the rents and profits issuing out of the hands, [illegible], or knowledge of the same Isham Davis and William F. Tull or into the [illegible] of any other person for these and the same so made to exhibit in the court of Probate for the said County of Shelby, as [illegible] by law, and also make and render a fair and just account of this acting, [illegible] as such executors to said court, when thereunto law fully [illegible] and to well and truly fulfill the duties enforced upon them in and of the said will, and shall moreover pay[?] and deliver to the persons entitled thereto, all the legacies and bequests, contained in said will, so far as the Estate of the said testator will thereunto extends [illegible] to the value thereof, and as the law shall charge them and shall in general do all other acts which may from time to time be required of them by them, then this obligation to be void, otherwise to remain in full, freed, and [illegible].

Attest - David Evoy F.J.P.

Ishaw Davis (his mark) {seal}
William F. Tull {seal}
John S. Turley {seal}
Joel Reynolds {seal}
James Weeks {seal}
William Baker {seal}

Probate Court, September 4th, 1848

Estate of Daniel Davis Continued

On this day the following inventory was filed and is hereby ordered to record.

David Evoy, F.J.P.

Inventory of the real Estate, goods, and chattles, notes and account, of the Estate of Daniel Davis late of Shelby County, State of Illinois, deceased.

The south east quarter of the North west quarter of Section twenty four; The East half of the North East quarter of Section twenty three, thirty-eight acres of the South West quarter of the North East quarter of section twenty four, and thirty acres of the south half of the West half of the South West quarter in Section sixteen, all in Township number twelve, Range 5 East, in all two hundred and sixty eight acres.

William Bker Dr[?] to Eight acres south east [?]
Isham Davis Dr[?] to 6 acres “ “
one two horse waggon and sheet and [illegible], one ox waggon, one mare 4 years old, one mare two years old, one horse two years old, one horse supposed to be 14 years old, Seventeen head of sheep, 11 of new lambs, 11 five year old heifers, ten yearling steers, three cows and calves, seventeen heifer yearlings and Jersey[?] calf, one three year old Bull, Twenty pork[?] hogs, A set of Blacksmith tools, 3 Cl[illegible] Two Pl[illegible] and Three [illegible], one pair of doublelaces, and a pair of stretchers, Three single [illegible], and two [four illegible words], Three pair of [illegible], Five mare[?] saddles and a [illegible] saddle and 3 bridles, Two [illegible] cradles[?] and one [illegible] hook, one [illegible] hoe and spade, one clock and a pair of steelyards, one wash pot, and a linen pot, and a pair of hooks, two [illegible] and a skillet, and two shovels, one pair of Andersons[?] and a [illegible], Sixteen books, one arithmatic, and a Slate, 8 sett and a half of cups and saucers, one, one sett and a half of Plates and a sett of knives and forks, and 3 gallon jugs, 3 stone crocks, and a Milck Pitcher, one ceder chain[?], two painted Buckets, and washing tub and half bushel, two tubs, one barrel, and four hogshead, one meal tub, Twentyfive pounds of wool Rolls, and 30 hand full of flax, two wheels, 3 fancy bedsteads, 3 pair of Plain bedsteads, two oxes and a hand saw, one six quarter auger, one meh[?] chisel, and 2 [illegible], one smoothing iron, Three beds and bedding and a bow[?] and [illegible] seed[?], Six chairs and half a wheat face, 80 bushels of wheat, 300 bushels of old corn, five hundred dozen of oats, four hundred feet of plank, and a pair of sled runners, one table and a chest, and table cloth, fourteen dollars worth of medicine, Thirtyfive [illegible] and a ground[?] stove, and a pair of sheep shears, one pitchfork and a briar scythe, a one gallon jug, one fat stand and sope[?], one [illegible] square, one candle stick and moles[?], one bundle[?] and a half of spun cotton, one few[?] of coal, and meal sive[?], one [illegible] wedge, fifty stock hogs,

Inventory continued
Money on hand - $3.37 ½
William Weeks Do - 1.00
Elisha Waggoner Do - 50
Thomas Baugher Do - 75
Josiah B Tull Do - 36
William Davis Do - 2.37 ½
James Rouse Do doubtfull - 30
[illegible] Womack Do - 1.12 ½
Jane[?] Siler Do - 60
John Rose Do - 127
William Waker Do - 257
Martin [illegible] Do - 1.00
Robert Robertson Do - 1.25
James [illegible] Do - 2.00
P.S.[?] Turley - 1.00
Benjamin Siler Do desperate - 9.73
Jordan[?] Little desperate - 1.50
John [illegible] Do - 2.00
Evan Baker Do - 13.00
John Wiger Do - 2.75
Charles Davis Do - 75
John Lankford Do - 5.96
Allen Andes Do - 2.00
James Weeks Do - 5.81 ¼
Jacob Walles[?] Do - 3.37 ½
Isaac Curry Do - 1.75
Samuel Lankford Do - 50
Margaret Shaw - 1.87 ½
Peter F. Warren - 1.75
James Townly[?] - 75
John Lilly[?] - 1.00
James F. Wallis - 62 ½
Benjamin Weeks - 37 ½
[illegible] Hamilton desperate - 1.00
Andrew J Cox - 50
John McGraw[?] Doubtful - 25.00
Gideon[?] Edward - 25

We do hereby certify the foregoing[?] to be a full and perfect inventory of the real and personal Estate together with the money on hand, note, and accounts of Daniel Davis, dec’d, so far as the same has come to our sight and knowledge, given under our hands, this 31st day of August AD 1848.

Isham Davis
William F. Tull
Executors

September 4th 1848 On this day the following appraisement was filed examined and approved and is hereby ordered to record
David Evoy, F.J.P.

An appraisement bill of the goods and chattles of Daniel Davis deceased this 31st of August AD 1848
One waggon - $25.00
One piece[?] of charcoal - 2.45
One set of blacksmith tools - 35.00
[illegible] plank - 4.00
stretchers, sieve[?], shovel, wedge, and hoop [illegible] - 2.40
300 [illegible] of oats - 30.00
80 Bushels of wheat - 20.00
one two horse waggon and [illegible] and old [two illegible words] - 40.00
A lot of old cows in the milk [?] - 40.00
2 scythes and cradles, one [illegible] hook, and bush scythe - 5.00
3 saddles, one pair of gears, 3 [illegible] teeth, bridles, and one pair of Martingales - 13.00
one little wheel, saddle bags, half bushel, stand - 3.00
Household and kitchen furniture and clock - 50.00
Wool Rolls and big wheel - 6.50
Saw, auger, chisels and square fat stand and [illegible] stand - 2.50
one pair of sled runners - .75
20 fatning hogs - 55.00
30 stock hogs - 30.00
A lot of plows and cl[illegible] - 7.00
One black mare - 45.00
One [illegible] horse - 30.00
One bay filly - 40.00
One bay horse colt - 30.00
One half of a wheat [illegible] - 6.00
one grindstone, 2 axes, 3 [illegible] 3.00
22 head of sheep - 22.00
11 cows and calves - 37.00
11 two year old heifers - 38.00
23 yearlings, 21 of them heifer and 2 steer - 115.00
4 hogshead and a spade, [illegible] - 4.00
one [illegible] 1.30
35 head of geece[?] 7.00

We certify that the foregoing is a true and correct appraisement bill of the goods and chattles of Daniel Davis, deceased the 31st day of August, 1848.

[Illegible]
Alfred Wallis
Davis [Illegible]
Appraisers

Probate Court October 3rd 1848
On this day the following sale bill was filed, examined, and approved and is hereby ordered to record.
David Evoy, F.J.P.
A Bill of sale of personal Estate of Davis deceased
September 30th 1848
John Walden to one large Waggon
$27.25
Joel Reynolds, Crier[?], J.F. Turley, Clerk

On this 4th day of June 1849, came Isam Davis and William F. Tull, executors of Daniel Davis, deceased, and made the following settlement to wit

Amount payable to Executor’s Sale bill
Amount of Inventory recorded by them
For sale of [illegible]

27.25
36.0

63.85
65.00

128.85
1.60

Amount of credit to executors - 5[?]
I[illegible] - $.5
Hannah Davis - $2.00
[illegible] [illegible]ck - .50
David Evoy - probate fees - 11.25
Isham Davis - [illegible] allow[?] - 18.80
Hannah Davis - window - 8.62
William Hyland - coffin - 5.00
[illegible] Cox - [illegible] for medicine - 4.00
David M. Robinson - [illegible] case - 1.08
[illegible] feeds - 2.00
W.F. Johnston - [illegible] and interest - 5.05
Isam Davis - executor for extra [illegible] - 10.93 ¾
William Tull - makes no charge
Isham Davis - Executor [illegible] on 115$ - 6.90
Edward Evoy - probate fees - 2.12
William Baker - note - 52.00
Peter Fleming - Payee [?] - 10.63
J.R. Steward - Payee [?] - 2.00