Who was Benjamin Oliver Davis Sr's parents?
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His father was Louis Davis, a servant for General John A. Logan. http://de.essortment.com/informationbenj_rhqy.htm\n\nI'm still looking for information on his mother.\n\nTHE FIRST AFRICAN AMERICAN GENERAL OFFICER IN THE REGULAR ARMY AND IN THE U.S. ARMED FORCES\nhttp://www.army.mil/cmh/topics/afam/davis.htm
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Yes. Their Family tree is in the link below.
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We have been working on our "Roots" for years.  My great grandfather came from Alabama and his sisters and brothers scattered throughout the US.  We found out the slavemaster's name for our ancestor's but haven't been successful in tracking his ancester's yet.  We were told that The Mormon's kept records from slavery days so now we're concentrating on finding records at The Mormon's Church.  \n\nKeep in mind, that hte slaves were not educated and they did not spell last names the same.  They would spell and write the way it sound.  That only means that some of the ancester's surnames may have had an "A" when others may have had an "O".  Could all be sisters and brothers.\n\nSometimes the slavemasters chose to change the last names of some and some may have had the slavemaster's last name.  It's all so complicated.  \n\nI will continue searching. Maybe we can help each other.  gl
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Try www.ancestry.com \nThey have a free geneology search.
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now who's son's were these ??
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Search for his name on the web. Go to the places he resided when he was alive and check out the local libraries, see if they have any historical records or perhapse newspapers (or one of those things... I can't remember what they are... but we have them at my library.) If all else fails, see if you can't talk to your parents about him. Check out the web and search for his name or the places he lived. \n\nYou can also do an information search with a private detective in your area, with very little information. These detectives can cost anywher from fifty dollars to fifty hundered dollars, so make sure to sign a contract regarding payment.
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I found out that my family is the longest recorded black family in the united states from www.genealogy.com and it showed me the whole tree, just from my dad's name.\n\nI'm a lucky dude, you might be too check it out.
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G'day Ned B,\n\nThank you for your question.\n\nHis surname is African from Kenya where his Dad was born.  He was raised by his white mother in Kansas. He and his wife are members of the Trinity United Church of Christ.\n\nI have attached sources for your reference.\n\nRegards
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You might want to try Ancestry.com. If it's not there, the best way is to contact the public library in the town where they lived. Contact info at the second link below.
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HENRY LEWIS BENNING (April 2, 1814-July 10, 1875), jurist, statesman, soldier, was born on a plantation in Columbia County, Georgia, the son of Pleasant Moon and Matilda Meriwether White Benning, the third of eleven children. He attended Franklin College (University of Georgia), where he graduated with first honors at the age of twenty. Upon his graduation he moved to Columbus and there made his home for the rest of his life. At twenty-one he was admitted to the bar, and two years later was appointed solicitor-general for his judicial circuit. He afterward served a term in the General Assembly. On September 12, 1839, he married Mary Howard Jones of Columbus, by whom he had ten children, of whom five daughters survived him. His only son died of wounds received in the Civil War. Able, logical, industrious, and of the highest integrity, he had not a few of the qualities of Calhoun. He was convinced that to free the negroes would create such social chaos in the South as to make civilization impossible and life for the whites unendurable. He believed emancipation, and the subsequent enfranchisement of the slaves, inevitable if the South remained in the Union. He therefore became an ardent secessionist. But while he felt secession necessary he considered it by no means the solution to the problem. He feared some of the northermost slave states might, from economic reasons, develop a sentiment against the institution, and he would protect the lower South from the chaos of emancipation by the formation of a "consolidated" Southern Republic, with strong centralized powers, so that slavery could be put "under the control of those most interested in it." (letter to Howell Cobb, Toombs, Stephens and Cobb Correspondence," American Historical Association Annual Report, 1911, II, 171). In the crisis of 1850 he was for immediate withdrawal from the Union, and became an enthusiastic supporter of the movement to hold a Southern Conference at Nashville. In the election held in Georgia to name delegatges to this conference he was successful, but most of the other secessionist candidates were overwhelmingly defeated, and the small number of votes cast showed that the vast majority of the people were not aroused. Indeed, the fact that Georgia, generally regarded as a pivotal state, had thus decisively repudiated the "Southern-rights" movement, foredoomed the convention to failure. But Benning was persistent and resourceful. Ostensibly, in an effort at compromise, he introduced at Nashville a resolution to the effect that nothing less than the Missouri line could be accepted by the South as a settlement of the territorial problem. He believed the South could be persuaded to demand this as an ultimatum; that the North would promptly reject it; and that secession would then be the only alternative. The resolution was duly passed, but the result was not what he had hoped it would be. Meeting in December, the Georgia Convention, instead of ratifying the action of Nashville, accepted Clay's compromise measure, "being impelled thereto" (in the language of the resolution) "by an earnest desire to save the American Union." In 1851 Benning accepted the nomination of the Southern Rights Democrats as one of their candidates for Congress and, although he ran ahead of his party, was defeated in the Constitutional Union "landslide" of that year. In 1853 he was elected by the General Assembly as an associate justice of the Georgia supreme court, where he delivered, in the case of Padelford vs. Savannah (14 Georgia,438) an exhaustive opinion in support of the principle that a state supreme court is not bound by the decisions of the Supreme Court of the United States on constitutional questions. The two courts he held to be "coordinate and co-equal." This remarkable decision, comprising eighty pages, is perhaps the most vigorous and elaborate exposition of the doctrine of "strict con
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Jefferson Davis was first a U.S. Senator.  He became the only President of the Confederate States of America during the Civil War.
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His name was Prescott S. Bush. His grandmother was called Dorothy Walker Bush
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George Washington was the oldest child from his father's second marriage. Washington had two older half-brothers: Lawrence and Augustine, Jr. "Austin" and four younger siblings: Betty, Samuel, John Augustine "Jack", and Charles. Washington's parents Augustine Washington "Gus" (1693–April 12, 1743) and Mary Ball Washington (1708–August 25, 1789) were of British descent. Gus Washington was a slave-owning planter in Virginia who later tried his hand in iron-mining ventures.\n\nBob Higgins\nWorldwide Sawdust\nhttp://sawdust.eponym.com/blog\nhttp://www.myleftwing.com/frontPage.do
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try:\n\nhttp://www.ancestry.com/
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My forefather......... I would like to know how does my ancestor look like and how my family history is created. My grandfather too.... One of the person who loved me the most.......but passed away when im a child...... I wish to tell him... I love him....Appreciate whoever u have now.....
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Here's a great link where you can look them up:\nhttp://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/
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Samuel Adams' father was also named Samuel Adams, though some people referred to him as "Ole Sam Adams."\n\nI can't find any record of his mother's name.