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 mad 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.
