Sonoma County Biographies

LEVI DAVIS

Transcribed by Sally Kaleta, July, 2007

This file is part of the California Genealogy & History Archives 
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                   Was born in Jackson County, Indiana, March 21, 1822. At the 
age of seventeen years he settled with his parents in Warren County, Illinois, 
and there resided till the Fall of 1840 when his parents moved to Green County, 
Missouri, and there he commenced farming. Here he married Rebecca Lakey on 
January 6, 1842. In 1852, Mr. Davis crossed the plains to California by ox-team 
and arrived at Petaluma on the 29th August of that year, and first settled near 
Liberty school-house in that township where he farmed until 1871. In this year 
he moved to his present residence near Forrestville and occupies three hundred 
acres of land on which he raises wheat and carp. His family consists of John 
Valentine, Joseph, Jacob, Charles Nuton, Christopher Columbus, Phoebe, Rebecca 
Zarrilda, and Lydia Ann.
 
Source: "History of Sonoma County, Cal.," Alley, Bowen & Co., San Francisco, 
1880, p. 474.