1 Born at Princeton, Worcester County, Massachusetts; son of Miranda Jones and James Davis. 2 Married Catherine Spring, 1833; participated in plural marriage. 3 Baptized at Nauvoo, Hancock County, Illinois, 1843. 4 Migrated to the Salt Lake Valley, 1850. 5 Settled at Spanish Fork, Utah County, Utah Territory, by 1860. 6 Served as a postmaster at Spanish Fork for twenty-five years. 7 Died at Spanish Fork. 8 (See Document 2.5)
Charles Augustus Davis
13 October 1810 — 29 August 1897
Footnotes
Footnotes
[1] Nauvoo Temple Endowment Register: Dec. 10, 1845, to Feb. 8, 1846, p. 125 (1846), FHL microfilm 962798, item 1, FHL. Find a Grave, database and images (http://findagrave.com, accessed Apr. 2014), memorial no. 12250323, Charles Augustus Davis; Spanish Fork City Cemetery, Spanish Fork, UT.
[2] Nauvoo Temple Endowment Register, p. 125. “Family Tree,” database, FamilySearch (http://www.familysearch.org, accessed Aug. 2014), Charles Augustus Davis LTRD-2ZX. Frank Esshom, Pioneers and Prominent Men of Utah (Salt Lake City: Utah Pioneers Book Publishing, 1913), 837.
[3] “Family Tree,” database, Charles Augustus Davis.
[4] Ibid.
[5] “Charles Augustus Davis,” Church History Biographical Database, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, available at https://history.churchofjesuschrist.org/chd/landing, accessed Apr. 2014.
[6] 1860 U.S. census, Spanish Fork, Utah Co., Utah Territory, p. 968, Charles A. Davis; digital image, Ancestry.com (http://ancestry.com, accessed Oct. 2014); from NARA microfilm publication M653, roll 1314.
[7] Esshom, Pioneers and Prominent Men of Utah, 837.
[8] Find a Grave, memorial no. 12250323.