James, the brother of John Davis, married JEMIMA HAYS, a granddaughter of Daniel Boone, her mother being SUSANNA BOONE. After his marriage he returned to KY and remained until 1819, when he came back to MO and settled in Montgomery Co. His children were John, Elizabeth, Jesse, Susan, Narcissa, Marcha, Daniel B., Unicia, and Volney. Jonathan Davis, brother of James and John, came to MO in 1820 and married MAHALA HAYS, a sister of his brother James' wife. They had thirteen children, only four of whom are living (1875).

613If she was born August 31, 1778, Jemima Hays Davis was born in North Carolina, and almost certainly at William and Mary Boone Bryan’s Bryan’s Mill Creek farm near the west bank of the Yadkin, about three miles south of the Shallow Ford.