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#5 Thomas W. Davis b. 1839 m. Missouri Hall in 1867

At this union, several significant pioneer families were being united. To describe this, let us turn back to 1808, the year of birth of Thomas A. Hall. Thomas Hall was born in Bourbon; County, Kentucky. Lucinda Robinett was born there also but in 1812. Both the Hall Family and the Robinett Family had been early colonists of America in Virginia and Kentucky. Thomas and Lucinda were married in Boone County Missouri December 28, 1833 and then spent about fourteen years, mostly in Lafayette County, Missouri and had four of their eight children born there. In 1847 they traveled west with a wagon train to Oregon making the journey over the Oregon Trail (Northern Route). They settled for awhile in. Clackamas County around Oregon City where their daughter, Missouri was born in 1849. She was one of the first children born to an immigrant people in the Oregon Territory and acquired her name from the homeland of her parents.

The Halls moved to Linn County (Brownsville) and had the rest of their family born there. In later years, they moved to Lane County and settled on land near the present site of Saginaw.

Thomas W. Davis and his wife Missouri had two sons:
A - Charles Elmer Davis b. February 3, 1870
B - Chester A. Davis b. March 14, 1872

When Chester A. Davis married Ida Gertrude Burch June 7, 1893, it brought into union more early American Families because the Burches and other related families were in America during very early colonial times. In the ancestry of Ida Burch, were the families of Gentry, Ferguson and Foddrill in addition to Burch. These families were early. immigrants to Indiana that settled there around 1820 have resided earlier in Virginia and North Carolina.

LUCINDA ROBINETT HALL

IDA GERTRUDE BURCH DAVIS

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