Person:Thomas Davis (163)

Marriage Bond

21 February 1790, Thomas Davis and Sarah Ruddle -- d/o Eliz – V-230

[Source: Shenandoah County Marriage Bonds 1772-1850" by John Vogt and T. William Kethley, Jr.].

1791 - Thomas DAVIS & Sarah RUDDLE

[LDS film number Shendoah county Minister's Return 1772 - 1872, #489 – 1775].

From "Along the Licking":

Little Sarah Ruddle, only twelve, niece of Isaac Ruddle, had come to visit her brother James. While there, she was often seen with a boy her age, Thomas Davis, whose family came in near the same time as the Goodnights, Conways and Longs. (Note: time frame appears to be abt. 1780).

Citations

http://familytreemaker.genealogy.com/users/m/o/r/Karin-D-Morey/GENE9-0004.html

1. ↑ Perrin, William Henry, ed. History of Bourbon, Scott, Harrison and Nicholas Counties, Kentucky. (Chicago, IL, USA: O. L. Baskin, 1882)
   460.

   ... Thomas Davis, who settled at Ruddel's Mills Precinct in this county at an early time. ...
   
   ... Thomas Davis, the grandfather of our subject, lived for sometime at Ruddel's Fort, upon his first coming to Kentucky, he married Sarah Ruddell, who died at the age of ninety-seven, in Pike County, Mo., where he removed in 1825; eight children were born to him, of whom was George M., the father of our subject. ...