Shipley W. Davis
Shipley W. Davis, son of Zadock and Elizabeth Davis, --nee Bassett- of Massachusetts, was born at Edgartown, Martha's Vineyard, in the year 1816. His parents had thirteen children, of which he was the seventh. His mother, at the age of ninety-three, June 13, 1873, departed this life; his father died in June, 1819. In 1841 he married Harriet Cullour, of North Bend. One son, W. L. Davis, M. D., was hospital stewart in Sherman's raid to the sea, and is now a practicing physician (Old School). Henry W. Davis, another son, has been teaching in Myers' school district fourteen years. Edward Davis, a third son, is a physician at Dent, Ohio. Mr. Davis' farm is in Delhi township, and over a mile from the city limits.
From History of Hamilton county, Ohio, Henry & Kate Ford, L. A. Williams & Co., Publishers, 1881