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- RESEARCH_NOTES:
1. So. Carolina as a birthplace may be someone's assumption due to Samuel Adair being born there; however, they were married in Utah. Her parents are of Knox County, Tennessee.
2. Censuses: Rachel does not appear in 1856 Utah census. Can't find Rachel in 1880 census for the West even though she supposedly died in 1882 in Salem, Utah; did find several of her sons surnamed Davis in Salem, Utah on a house by house search of the entire town. Did not find in California.
1860 US: Springville, Utah, Utah, 3 Sep 1860, pg. 271, household 2412:
Rachael Davis, 50, seamstress, $175, Car.
Robt. Davis, 19, day laborer, TN.
Orson Davis, 13, UT.
Lucinda Davis, 10, UT.
1870 US: Pondtown (Payson P.O.), Utah, Utah, 29 Jul 1870, household 36:
Samuel B. Curtis, 25, farmer, IL.
Lucinda Curtis, 19, keeping house, UT.
Samuel F. Curtis, 1, UT.
Lyman Curtis, 3/12, UT.
Rachael Davies, 59, widowed mother, SC.
BIOGRAPHY:
1. Per Ancestral File 4.19, parents are James M. Hunter, Jr. and Rachel Webber.
2. The book "Pioneer Women of Faith and Fortitude" by the daughters of Utah Pioneers:
"Rachel Hunter Davis Stewart Adair, b. 13 Oct 1810 in South Carolina, d. 5 Aug 1882 in Salem, Utah, Utah; parents are James Hunter and Rachel Webber; pioneer of 22 Sep 1849 with the Orson Spencer Co. Wagon Train. Spouse #1 Henry Davis, m. Jan 1826 in Tennessee, d. 1846 with the following children:
Larkin, 30 Oct 1827 (died at age 15)
George Preston, 6 Apr 1828
James Jordan, 22 Oct 1829
Elizabeth Jane, 17 Sep 1831
Charles Washington, 29 Mar 1833
William Bradford, 11 Oct 1834
Levi Washington, 17 Jan 1836
Robert Huston, 16 Oct 1838
Joseph Webster, 13 Sep 1840
Jermiel, 19 Aug 1842
Mary Jane, 3 Sep 1844
Henry Orson, 25 Aug 1846
Spouse #2: Benjamin Franklin Stewart, m. 7 Sep 1850, d. before 1853, child: Lucinda, 6 Jun 1851.
Spouse #3: Samuel Adair, m. 9 May 1853.
Rachel and Henry heard the gospel while living in Tennessee and were baptized members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in 1838. They left with the Saints in 1840 and walked to Nauvoo. They stopped at Ramus, Illinois, for six months to work before they continued on to Nauvoo. Their son, Larkin, drowned while returning to Ramus to get some things they had left there. While in Nauvoo, Rachel, Henry, and Elizabeth Jane received their endowments in the Nauvoo Temple, February 2, 1846. They left that same year to go West. They went as far as Mr. Pisgah, Iowa, when her husband, Henry, died. At that time, Rachel was expecting her twelfth child. They had to endure so many persecutions from the mobs, the hardships of pioneer life, and the loss of their loved ones. But still she had a strong testimony of the truthfulness of the gospel of Jesus Christ. She entered the Salt Lake Valley, September 17, 1849, by wagon in the Orson Spencer Company. Rachel was married to Benjamin Franklin Stewart as his third wife for time only on September 7, 1850. She was sealed to Henry Davis at this time with Benjamin Stewart acting as proxy. They had one daughter. Rachel married Samuel Adair on May 9, 1853 in Payson, Utah, and later moved to California. She died August 5, 1882, in Salem, Utah, at the age of 72."
BIRTH:
1. Per Burial Index cited below.
MARRIAGE: Husbands:
1. Henry Davis, m. 24 Nov 1825 at Knoxville, Knox, Tennessee. Note date of DUP biography above indicates variant date of Jan 1826. Neither of these two dates show documentation.
2. Benjamin Franklin Stewart, m. 7 Sep 1850 at Logan, Cache, Utah.
3. Samuel Jefferson Adair, m. 9 May 1853 at Payson, Utah, Utah.
DEATH:
1. Utah State Historical Society Burials Database online: Rachel Hunter Davis Davis, b. 13 Oct 1810, d. 5 Aug 1882 South Carolina, bur. Salem City Cemetery Blk. 16, Lot 2, Plot 4. [South Carolina most likely birthplace and not deathplace and may be a typo.] Relatives: Rachel Webber, mother; James Hunter, Jr., father; Henry Davis, husband.
BURIAL:
1. Per Burial Index cited above.
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