Bird’s Creek near Basswood
The book places Israel and Rebecca’s family on Bird’s Creek near Basswood in Richland County after their 1865 move. It says Israel’s brother Henry’s family lived nearby.
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Identified book excerpt · pages 27–28
The Davis Family in an Atwood Genealogy
Two photographed pages from Charles A. Atwood’s 1965 compilation preserve Davis family traditions, descendant data, migration details, and several claims that still require independent proof.
Source identified
The Ancestry of One Atwood Family
Compiled by Charles A. Atwood in Antioch, Illinois, in 1965. The photographed pages match pages 27 and 28 of the digitized Family History Library copy.
Original photographed pages
Read the source beside the summary.
Select either page to open the full-resolution image. Each image can also be downloaded for the family archive.
Non-conflicting additions
Four clues that enrich the family line.
These details fit the broader migration and family story already preserved in the newsletters, but remain attributed to this 1965 compilation until stronger records are attached.
York and Etna Road
The family reportedly moved about 1870 to a location south of Spring Valley, Minnesota, on the York and Etna Road, near the area where Israel’s brother Peter had settled in 1855.
Harmony Dunkard congregation
The account identifies Israel and Rebecca as members of the Dunkard Church at Harmony, Minnesota, and says the compiler had been unable to locate their grave markers.
A fourteen-child Pippenger household
Rebecca is described as the fourth of fourteen children of Peter and Esther (Cripe) Pippenger. Their families reportedly moved from Pennsylvania through the Dayton area and reached Carroll County, Indiana, in 1833.
Ancestral leads—not yet established generations
Names to guide future record searches.
The book names Rebecca’s maternal grandparents as John Cripe and Rebecca Van Horn, and her paternal grandparents as John Pippenger and Katie Van Horn. It further says the two grandmothers were cousins.
These relationships are valuable search targets for church, probate, land, marriage, and migration records, but they have not yet been promoted into the public family tree.
Conflicts retained outside the main timeline
Where this book disagrees with stronger evidence.
- Marriage date: the book gives 11 August 1847, while the original Carroll County license certifies Israel and Rebecca’s marriage on 16 July 1847. The primary record controls.
- Daniel’s military service: the book combines several regiment and militia claims that have not yet been proven to concern the same Daniel Davis.
- Daniel’s death: its detailed 1848 travel-and-death story conflicts with the 1846 date carried elsewhere and remains on Daniel’s “Needs Further Research” page.
- Origins and ages: claims about Welsh immigrant parents, Sarah’s age, and assumed marriage timing remain secondary traditions rather than settled facts.