Family Card - Person Sheet
Family Card - Person Sheet
NameRachel Mabel Davis 
Birth7 Apr 1872, Nr., Council Bluffs, Iowa, USA
Death2 Feb 1955, Denver, Denver, Colorado, USA
BurialDenver, Denver, Colorado, USA
FatherThomas E. Davis
MotherSarah Lawson
Spouses
Birth21 Oct 1861, Nr. Ebensburg, , Pennsylvania, USA
Deathabt 25 Sep 1935, Denver, Denver, Colorado, USA
Burialabt Sep 1935, Denver, Denver, Colorado, USA
FatherMorris Peate (1813-1898)
MotherLaura "Lowry" Jones (1819-1904)
Marriage3 Nov 1893, Chicago, , Illinois, USA
ChildrenMaurice (1894-1965)
Paul (1896-1899)
Richard Ellsworth 2nd (1898-1995)
Martha (1901-1902)
William "Billy" (1903-1908)
Ann (1906-~1981)
Theodore (1914-1972)
Notes for Rachel Mabel Davis
BIR-MAR-DEA: PAT002
PAT005: "Was born in Council Bluffs, Iowa, 4/7/1872, moved to Hartley because her father who was a farmer and had 160 acres of bottom land traded for a large tract at Hartley. She went to a school in Des Moines and received a diploma to teach. Sometime after this she took shorthand in Council Bluffs and held several secretarial positions, among them one at Atkinson, Nebraska and one at O'Neil, Nebraska. It was at Atkinson where whe was secretary for a banker whom R.E. Pate had backed that she met the latter. Following these positions she had a secretarial position at the Chicago World's Fair preceding her marriage to R.E. Pate. As he had backed another man in a bank at Sumner, Nebraska--30 mi. NW of Kearney--they went there for awhile then moved to Pender, Nebraska--40 mi SW of Sioux City, Iowas--where their first child Maurice was born. Mother died young. Father remarried, taking his wife and son Fred Davis to Monte Vista. RMR lived with sister in Iowa for awhile."
PAT005: "Was born in Council Bluffs, Iowa, 4/7/1872, moved to Hartley because her father who was a farmer and had 160 acres of bottom land traded for a large tract at Hartley. She went to a school in Des Moines and received a diploma to teach. Sometime after this she took shorthand in Council Bluffs and held several secretarial positions, among them one at Atkinson, Nebraska and one at O'Neil, Nebraska. It was at Atkinson where whe was secretary for a banker whom R.E. Pate had backed that she met the latter. Following these positions she had a secretarial position at the Chicago World's Fair preceding her marriage to R.E. Pate. As he had backed another man in a bank at Sumner, Nebraska--30 mi. NW of Kearney--they went there for awhile then moved to Pender, Nebraska--40 mi SW of Sioux City, Iowas--where their first child Maurice was born. Mother died young. Father remarried, taking his wife and son Fred Davis to Monte Vista. RMR lived with sister in Iowa for awhile."