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Below is a family biography included in The History of Gibson County, Tennessee published by Goodspeed Publishing Company in 1887.  These biographies are valuable for genealogy research in discovering missing ancestors or filling in the details of a family tree. Family biographies often include far more information than can be found in a census record or obituary.  Details will vary with each biography but will often include the date and place of birth, parent names including mothers' maiden name, name of wife including maiden name, her parents' names, name of children (including spouses if married), former places of residence, occupation details, military service, church and social organization affiliations, and more.  There are often ancestry details included that cannot be found in any other type of genealogical record.

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Abner L. Davidson is a son of Ephraim Davidson, born in North Carolina, in 1802. He moved to Middle Tennessee when young, and there met and married Lucretia Stovoll, who was born in that part of the State, in 1807. They came to Gibson County shortly after their marriage, and here the father became the owner of 200 acres of land, and followed farming and saw-milling for a living. He was a Whig before the war, and afterward a Democrat, and he and wife were members of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church, and were the parents of eleven children, seven of whom are living. Ephraim Davidson died in 1874, and his widow resided with her children until her death, in 1885. Abner L. Davidson is a Gibson County Tennessean, born June 19, 1839. Owing to the undeveloped condition of the schools during his boyhood, his early education was quite meager. He worked for his father until twenty years of age, and in 1861 volunteered in Company E, Thirty-second Tennessee Confederate Infantry, but, after serving about eleven months was taken sick, and returned home. Howell A. Little, who was born near Fort Smith, Ark., January 15, 1845, became his wife in 1862. Their union was blessed in the birth of ten children, only five of whom are living. Mr. and Mrs. Davidson and the two oldest children are members of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church, and he has been an elder in the same for fifteen years. He is a Democrat, and owns 158 acres of land.

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This family biography is one of 242 biographies included in The History of Gibson County, Tennessee published in 1887.  The History of Gibson County was included within The History of Gibson, Obion, Dyer, Weakley & Lake Counties of Tennessee. For the complete description, click here: History of Gibson, Obion, Dyer, Weakley, and Lake Counties of Tennessee

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