 James was born on 25 March 1843 to Robert and Sarah (Moore) Davidson in Jonesboro, Grant County, Indiana.
On 9 August 1862 he was a resident of Lynxville, Crawford County, Wisconsin where he enlisted in Company A, 31st Wisconsin Regiment Infantry. He mustered out with the Company at the end of the war on 20 June 1865. He started drawing his pension on 24 May 1881.
By 1870 he married Jennie McClure a daughter of Samuel and Maria McClure of Crawford County and they are living in West Union, Fayette County, Iowa. In 1880 they are back in Crawford County with four children and living with them is Jennie's 70 year old widowed father.
James and Jennie were the parents of at least nine children; Clark (1870), Sarah (1872), Elmer (1874), Laura (1876), Elizabeth (1878), Cora (1881), Nellie (1883), Edith (1885), and Harriet (1887). Most of this family relocated from Eddy County except for Elmer and Nellie.
In the late 1880's and before 1887, the family followed Jennie's father, Samuel McClure, to Eddy County where James had land grants in Township 148, Range 67 and Township 148, Range 65.
Sometime before 1910 James and Jennie relocated to Pierce County, Washington. James died on 28 February 1918 in Tacoma, Pierce County and Jennie died shortly after on 9 May 1918.
Son Elmer remained in Eddy County, married with children, involved in New Rockford business, and died in New Rockford in 1928. Nellie married a local businessman, George W. Streeter. She died giving birth to son Neil Davidson Streeter in 1904 and Neil died the next year.
Jennie's Burial, Tombstone Photos, Links to Some Family Elmer Roy's Burial, Tombstone Photo, Links to Some Family Nellie's Burial, Tombstone Photo Gerald was born in New Rockford to  Warren and Elizabeth O'Keefe Day on 3 July 1932. Known siblings include: Emmett, Edwin, Margaret, Elizabeth (1920-2008), John, Lucille Edna (1924-), and William.
Gerald entered the military service in Minneapolis on 22 January 1952. While serving with 1st Marine Division, 1st Air-Naval Gunfire Liaison Company, Fleet Marine Force, as a Corporal he was killed in action in Korea on 28 February 1953 on the Gray Rock Ridge in the Panmunjom Area. See this Gerald Day rembrance article. He posthumously received the Purple Heart.
|