Martha Louisa Davis b. 12 Jun 1850 Illinois, USA d. 15 Mar 1917 Iron County, Missouri, USA: Our Family History

1850 - 1917 (66 years)

Name	Martha Louisa Davis
Born	12 Jun 1850	Illinois, USA [1]
	Some sources (cemetery stone?) cite her birth year as 1848. However, I believe 1850 must be correct. She is not listed in the 1850 census with her parents in White Co IL, although her brother is. Her mother was probably pregnant at the time. J. B. Campbell Bible gives her birth as 12 June 1850.
Gender	Female
Census	30 Jul 1860	Township 6S, Range 8W, White County, Illinois, USA [2]
	1. Davis, Isaac, 50, male, farmer, real estate value $1800, personal $400, Tennessee 2. _____, Wm. H., 14, male, Illinois, attending school 3. _____, Martha L., 10, female, Illinois, attending school 4. _____, Polly, 71, female, North Carolina, cannot read or write
Census	19 Jul 1870	Sacramento (post office), Indian Creek Precinct, White County, Illinois, USA [3]
	1. Deboard, Ivy, 20, male, white, farmer, real estate value $1000, value $100, Tennessee 2. _____, Martha, 19, female, keeping house, Illinois, cannot read or write 3. _____, Martha, 1, female, Illinois 4. Allen, Laura, 6, female, white, Illinois 5. Bolerjack, George, 21, male, white, farmer, Illinois, attending school
Census	24 Jun 1880	Mountain Grove township, Wright County, Missouri, USA [4]
	1. Debord, Ivy J., white, male, 30, married, farmer, Tennessee, North Carolina, North Carolina 2. _____, Martha L., white, female, 29, wife, married, keeping house, Illinois, Tennessee, Tennessee 3. _____, Laura J., white, female, 14, daughter, at home, attending school, Illinois, Tennessee, Illinois 4. _____, Martha P., white, female, 10, daughter, at home, attending school, [can read], cannot write, Illinois, Tennessee, Illinois 5. _____, Sarah E., white, female, 8, daughter, attending school 6. _____, Bettie, white, female, 5, daughter, Illinois, Tennessee, Illinois 7. _____, Lucy, white, female, 3, daughter, Illinois, Tennessee, Illinois 8. _____, Mary, white, female, 1, daughter, Missouri, Tennessee, Illinois
Died	15 Mar 1917	Iron County, Missouri, USA [1]
	Was apparently living with her son, Caleb, at the time of her death. He was the informant on the death certificate, and his place of residence was Des Arc, MO, which is in Iron County, Missouri.
Buried	17 Mar 1917	Mountain View-Center Hill Cemetery, Howell County, Missouri [1, 5]
Person ID	I401	Full
Last Modified	25 May 2021

Father	Isaac Sebastian Davis, b. 26 May 1810, Tennessee, USA , d. 25 Apr 1861, Illinois, USA (Age 50 years)
Mother	Martha Joyner, b. 7 Apr 1807, Tennessee, USA , d. 7 Apr 1853, Illinois, USA (Age 46 years)
Married	4 Mar 1845	White County, Illinois, USA [6, 7]
Family ID	F1009	Group Sheet \| Family Chart

Family 1 William Allen, b. Bef 1850, d. Bef 1868 (Age ~ 18 years)

Married 17 Jan 1865 White County, Illinois, USA [8, 9]

Martha would have been about 15 at the time of this first. brief marriage. Divorce was unusual, particularly after such a brief period. It also seems unusual that Ivy DeBoard, from a quite religious family, chose to marry a recently divorced young woman. Martha herself was quite religious--her preacher son remembers her praying loudly and fervently, sometimes at inconvenient times.
"Illinois, County Marriages, 1810-1940," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:KF2L-Y78 : 19 February 2021), William Allen and Martha L. Davis, 17 Jan 1865; citing White, Illinois, United States, county offices, Illinois; FHL microfilm 977,069.

Divorced Before 1868

Children

+	1. Laura Jane Allen, b. 1865, Illinois, USA , d. 12 Feb 1904, Mountain View, Howell County, Missouri, USA (Age 39 years)

Last Modified 23 May 2021

Family ID F166 Group Sheet | Family Chart

Family 2 Iva Gerome Deboard, b. 25 Nov 1847, McMinn County, Tennessee, USA , d. 17 Mar 1900, Mountain View, Howell County, Missouri, USA (Age 52 years)

Married 9 Sep 1868 White County, Illinois, USA [10]

"Illinois, County Marriages, 1810-1940," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:KF2G-MZ3 : 19 February 2021), Ivy G. Deboard and Martha L. Allen, 09 Sep 1868; citing White, Illinois, United States, county offices, Illinois; FHL microfilm 977,069.
Marriage record clearly calls her "Miss" Martha L. Allen, though she was divorced.

Children

+	1. Martha Armelia Deboard, b. Abt 1869, Illinois, USA , d. 1 Feb 1949, Riverton, Fremont County, Wyoming (Age ~ 80 years)
+	2. Sarah Emma Deboard, b. Abt 1872, Illinois, USA , d. Yes, date unknown
+	3. Cora Elizabeth "Bettie" Deboard, b. 24 Jul 1874, White County, Illinois, USA , d. 21 Nov 1965, Amarillo, Randall County, Texas, USA (Age 91 years)
+	4. Lucy Wesley Deboard, b. 24 Aug 1876, Illinois, USA , d. 5 Jul 1935, Howell County, Missouri, USA (Age 58 years)
+	5. Mary Louise Deboard, b. Abt 1879, Mountain Grove, Wright County, Missouri, USA , d. 1967, Merced County, California, USA (Age ~ 88 years)
+	6. Margaret Deboard, b. Feb 1881, Missouri, USA , d. Abt 1907, Missouri, USA (Age ~ 25 years)
+	7. William Isaac Deboard, b. 2 Feb 1883, Mountain View, Howell County, Missouri, USA , d. 2 Jan 1972, Los Angeles, Los Angeles County, California (Age 88 years)
	8. Ira Lyman Deboard, b. Apr 1885, Missouri, USA , d. 24 Sep 1886, Missouri, USA (Age ~ 1 years)
	9. Caleb Isaac Deboard, b. 22 Mar 1889, Missouri, USA , d. Aug 1962 (Age 73 years)
+	10. John Calvin Deboard, b. Dec 1891, Missouri, USA , d. Yes, date unknown

Last Modified 23 May 2021

Family ID F165 Group Sheet | Family Chart

Documents		Marriage, Iva G. Deboard-Martha Allen, 9 September 1868, White Co IL "Illinois, County Marriages, 1810-1940," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:KF2G-MZ3 : 19 February 2021), Ivy G. Deboard and Martha L. Allen, 09 Sep 1868; citing White, Illinois, United States, county offices, Illinois; FHL microfilm 977,069.
Documents		Marriage, Martha Louise Davis to William Allen, 1865, White Co IL "Illinois, County Marriages, 1810-1940," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:KF2L-Y78 : 19 February 2021), William Allen and Martha L. Davis, 17 Jan 1865; citing White, Illinois, United States, county offices, Illinois; FHL microfilm 977,069.

Notes
See attached sources. [6]

Sources

[S40] Missouri - Death records 1910 - 1955 (MO Archives online), («i»Missouri Digital Heritage«/i» (http://www.sos.mo.gov/mdh/), "Missouri Death Certificates, 1910 - 1956," digital image,), entry for Martha Louisa Davis, certificate no. 10174, Iron County, Missouri (1917) (Reliability: 3), 31 Jul 2007.
Iron County, Missouri [township illegible, begins with M?]
Mrs. Martha Louisa Davis
female, white, widow
born 12 June 1850
Age 60
Housewife
Birthplace: Illinois
Father: William Davis, born ?
Mother: ?
Informant: Caleb Deboard, Des Arc, Mo.
Date of Death 15 March 1917
Cause of death: pneumonia
Place of burial: [Cedar Hill, Mo?] 17 March 1918 [sic: 1917]
Undertakers: Groves and [Stamp?], Des Arc, Mo.
[S3669] 1860 U.S. census, White County, Illinois, population schedule, Township 6S Range8W, p. 102 (penned, recto), [no stamped no.], dwelling 735, family 725, Isaac Davis household; digital images, Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com : accessed 30, July 2013); citing NARA microfilm publication M653, roll 236.
[S3671] 1870 U.S. census, White County, Illinois, population schedule, Sacramento (post office), Indian Creek Precinct, p. 15 (penned), p. 440 (stamped), dwelling 112, family 113, Ivy Deboard household; digital image, Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com : accessed 30 July 2013); citing NARA microfilm publication M593, roll 289. .
[S3672] 1880 U. S. census, Wright County, Missouri, population schedule, Mountain Grove township, enumeration district (ED) 140, pp. 33-34 (penned), p. 508b-509a (stamped), dwelling 62, family 62, Ivy J. Debordn household; digital images, Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com : accessed 30 July 2013); citing NARA microfilm publication T9, roll 741.
[S312] Missouri, Howell - Cemetery, Center Hill, (Center Hill Cemetery, Howell County, Missouri (S of Mountain View on Highway 17, Sec 7, Twp 26, Rg 7)), marker for Louisa DeBoard (1848 - 1917) (Reliability: 3).
Martha Louis (Davis) Allen DeBoard has a marker with her husband at Center Hill, and is presumably buried there, although she died in Iron County, MO. Her death certificate states that she was buried at "Cedar Hill," which sounds similar, and was probably an error on the part of the recorder.
[S306] Story - Correspondence with Connie Sieveking.
[S45] Illinois - Marriages, online, State Archives (1763 - 1900), ("Illinois Statewide Marriage Index, 1763-1900," (http://www.cyberdriveillinois.com/departments/archives/marriage.html)), entry for Isaac Davis and Martha Towell, White County, Illinois, vol. 2 (4 March 1845) (Reliability: 3).
Isaac Davis to Martha Towell on 4 March 1845, White County, Illinois.
[S70] Illinois, White - Marriages (Vaught book), Harriet Vaught, (Carmi, Illinois: s.p., 1950), entry for William Allen and Martha L. Davis (17 Jan 1865) (Reliability: 3).
by T. M. Vineyard, with witness Benjamine Allen on
[S45] Illinois - Marriages, online, State Archives (1763 - 1900), ("Illinois Statewide Marriage Index, 1763-1900," (http://www.cyberdriveillinois.com/departments/archives/marriage.html)), entry for William Allen and Martha L. Davis, White County, Illinois, vol. 6 (1865) (Reliability: 3).
William Allen to Martha L. Davis, on 17 January 1865, White County, Illinois
[S6315] "Illinois, County Marriages, 1810-1940," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:KF2G-MZ3 : 19 February 2021), Ivy G. Deboard and Martha L. Allen, 09 Sep 1868; citing White, Illinois, United States, county offices, Illinois; FHL microfilm 977,069.