Gwendolyn Davis Clark
Gwen's Immigrant Heritage
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Ephraim Rees Davis, c. 1895, and Anna Goodwin Davis, c. 1910.
Anna Goodwin, born 1886, What Cheer, Iowa, was the daughter of Lavinia Fleming, born 1859 in Preston, England, and of Thomas Goodwin (born McKay, also spelled McKee; took mother's maiden name on arrival in USA for employment & family reasons), born Beath, Scotland, 1859. She grew up in Trinidad and the nearby coal camps of southeastern Colorado. We don't know why she was in Virginia City when she met her future husband; if you do, please write.

Ephraim (or Ephrain) Rees Davis, born 1875, Samaria, Idaho, was the son of Elizabeth Williams, born Ystradgynlais, Glamorgan, Wales, c. 1835, and Thomas Davis (Davies), born Neath, Glamorgan, Wales, c. 1820. He was once secretary-treasurer of the Revere Car Co. Like Icarus, he flew high and crashed, but he did it more than once, and he kept getting up. (See also Ephraim Rees Davis.)

With their daughter, they seem to have lived in interesting times -- RC.

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