Thomas Davis

    Thomas Davis, farmer, Washington Township, resides on his farm of eighty-one acres in Section 10, and also owns seventy acres in Section 3. His premises are well improved, and land under a good state of cultivation. He is one of the active, leading farmer of the township, and was born in Kent County, Delaware, March 29, 1816. His parents, Thomas and Levicy (Gullett) Davis, were born in Delaware, where his father followed farming up to his death. In 1834 his mother with the children removed to this county, where she died March 1, 1860, in her eighty-third year.

    In 1836 Mr. Davis began flat-boating, at which he continued up to 1859, since then has been a farmer. He was married April 18, 1844, to Miss Temperance Wheeler, who was born June 29, 1827, and by this union were born thirteen children: Elizabeth, Thomas, John W., Mary, Wilson W., Levicy, William, Joseph, Julia, Anna, Margaret and Emma T. One child died in infancy. Mr. Davis has always endeavored to encourage every laudable enterprise. He and his wife are now enjoying the fruit of a well spent life.

Source: History of Dearborn and Ohio Counties, Indiana by F.E. Weakley & Co., 1885