I’m plugging away at a family profile / biography of William Davis and his wife, Farsina Brewster and am about halfway there. This is part of my broader goal of doing family profiles through all my great-great-grandparents, including reviewing all the documentation and sourcing, looking at the gaps, trying to fill those gaps, and then crafting a story about their lives to help introduce them to my extended family and to more distant relatives I’ve never even met.
This bio includes another map, this one of the civil district lines in Morgan County, where they lived, in order to figure out what their neighborhoods were and how they might have met in the first place. It was interesting and challenging to try to place their land on a map, since Morgan County surveyors didn’t seem to include precise descriptions and distances in their survey calls, making it very hard to know exactly who their neighbors were and what the shape of their land was. So a couple of these locations (Zeke Cochran and Ransom Davis, in particular) are estimates based on other fragments of information from other sources.
I’ll finish the Davis-Brewster profile by the end of this week.