Rufus King DAVIS ^{1 2}

  General Notes:

1850 OH CENSUS, Belmont Co, Goshen Twp:
Rufus K. Davis, 19, blacksmith, b. OH.
He was living with the family of Charles P. Davis, 23.

U.S., CIVIL WAR DRAFT REGISTRATION RECORDS, June 1863 - Belmont, Harrison, Tuscarawas, Guernsey and Noble Co, OH:
Salem Twp, Rufus K. Davis, 34, farmer, married, b. OH.
(Listed next to Henry Davis, 29, also of Salem Twp.)

1880 IA CENSUS, Mahaska Co, Monroe Twp:
R. K. Davis, 49, farmer, b. OH, parents b. MD;
Sarah J., wife, 36, keeping house, b. OH, father b. Canada, mother b. OH;
Rufus, son, 10, at school, b. IA, parents b. OH.

1900 IA CENSUS, Keokuk Co, Prairie Twp:
Rufus K. Davis, Feb 1831, 59, married 36 yrs, b. OH, parents b. OH, farmer;
Sarah J., wife, Mar 1845, 55, b. OH, father b. Canada (Eng.), mother b. VA.

1910 IA CENSUS, Mahaska Co, Oskaloosa:
Rufus K. Davis, Sr., 79, 1st marriage, married 43 yrs, b. OH, parents b. VA, farmer, farm;
Jennie Davis, wife, 65, 1st marriage, married 43 yrs, b. OH, father b. Can. Eng, mother b. VA.

FIND A GRAVE - Forest Cem, Oskaloosa, Mahaska Co, IA:
Rufus King Davis, Sr.
1831-1917
Sarah Jane Simmers Davis
1845-1925

Rufus married Prudence Ann HAGAN, daughter of Charles HAGAN and Margaret BALIS, on 8 Feb 1855 in Tuscarawas Co, OH.¹ (Prudence Ann HAGAN was born in Dec 1833 in OH ⁵ and died between 1900 and 1910 in Tuscarawas Co, OH ⁶.)

Rufus next married Sarah Jane SIMMERS on 31 Oct 1881 in Elkhart Co, IN.² (Sarah Jane SIMMERS was born in 1845,² died in 1925 in Mahaska Co, IA ² and was buried in Forest Cem, Oskaloosa, Mahaska Co, IA ².)