1850 Census, West Lackawannock TWP, Mercer Co., PA

  148 149
  Wm. Davis       70 M Collier Pa
  Lydia Ann Davis 60 F         Ireland
  John Davis      30 M Collier Pa
  Sarah Ann Davis 21 F         Pa

1860 Census - Shenango TWP, Mercer County, Pennsylvania

  1313 1268
  Samuel Wishart   37 M Day Laborer 75 Pennsylvania
  Sarah A.         37 F                Pennsylvania
  William           6 M                Pennsylvania
  Avius             3 F                Pennsylvania
  Nancy J. Davis   11 F                Pennsylvania
  Ruth Clawges      9 F                Pennsylvania

Grace Whale Meneely (grand-daughter of Ulysses G. Davis) shared the following letters:

New Philadelphia  December the 22 1884
My Dear Cousin   I thought i would take my pen in had to let you know that i am well at presant and i
hope that you are the same.  i got them flowers and they was pretty and they had a pretty smell.  i
would send you some flowers if i had any  i had some but they are froze now  i will send you a card
out of coffee and you must send me a peice of your dresses  you come out a Christmas i would like to
go out there a Christmas but i can't so I will have to stay at home this Chrismas  maw says she would
like to go out there but we can't we haft to stay at home  i am going to school now and i do not want
to miss a day if i can help it  we have a speeling day a tuesday and it is all untill mounday week. 
this is all for this time  Write soon  Good By from Sarah Lucinda Jordon to Sue Davis.  do not send
it in my name  send it in paws name his name is john William jordon.  Write soon  Good By

To New Philadelphia
  Tuscawaras Co
    Ohio

New Philadelphia  December the 22
my dear cousin  i take pen in had to Let you all know that i am well at presant hopin you are all the
same  i got your letter and was glad to hear from you and hope you are all in good health when this
reaches you  please state how uncle William is and aunt is getng along  when this reaches you all i
wish you all a mery Christmas  if i could would send you a christmas gift but as we are so far apart
i will haft to wait ontill i see please send me cousin hannah and maties address and i will write
them a letter as soon as i get their address  i have been peacing a quilt and i have got one done and
comenced another one  aunt sarah asend me the pieces of hers and aveious dress and i saved them all
up till i got enought to peace a quilt so i have begun it so i will heft to finish it  i would like
to have some of your dress for in my quilt  i have never got to town to get our pictures taken but as
soon as the roads are so bad but when they get better i will go down to get them alltogether so you
can see what we all look like there was another man shot here last Saturday night the man that shot
him got clear for it was in self defence he broke the door open to get in the house but nobody knows
what for so i suppose he has paid the penalty of his crime  Sarah got your letter and the flouers
that you sent here they was not much wilted when they got here so no more  good by from your cousin
jennie jordon to Sue davis and all the family give my Love to all at home and broad.

Nancy J. (Jennie) Jordan is originally Nancy J. Davis, daughter of John Davis, who Robert WIshart
says was brother to Sarah Ann Davis Wishart, sister of William Davis.  You can see her in the 1860
census record in Mercer County, PA as 11 years old.

According to Robert Wishart, Samuel Wishart and Sarah raised Nancy because her father John Davis was
in the civil war and a prisoner in Anderson Prison.

I figured that there was a Wishart connection because Samuel and Sarah Wishart moved between Mercer
County, PA and Trumbull County, OH a number of times.

We find William Jordan living with his parents WIlliam and Sarah in Findley, Mercer County, PA in
1860.  Same area as the Wisharts.

I was able to find the 1880 census record you mention.  William and Nancy J. had two children at the
time: William born 1869 and Susan L. born 1872.

Uncle William is likely to be our ancestor William Davis.  It could also possibly be Susan's brother
William Davis.

Aunt Sarah is Sarah Davis Wishart, sister to William Davis.  Avieous is a alternate spelling of
Samuel Wishart and Sarah Davis Wishart's daughter Avies.  In census records it has been spelled
Avius, Avias, and Avies.