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- They were married in the home of her mother, Eleanor (Ellen) Jones-Vance. Her father having died March 18, 1878. They resided in a house on his father’s farm, just outside of Minonk, IL, where six of their children were born, then moved to near Burt, Kossuth County, Iowa, where two more children were born, and then to St. James, Watonwan County, Minnesota where their youngest child was born. In 1913 they moved to a farm five miles south of El Campo, Wharton County, Texas, and lived there until in 1924 when they moved to a farm 23 miles north of Houston, Texas. They lived there about nine months, and moved to a house on what is now called “Old Main Street”, out at the end of South Main Street, Houston, Texas. They lived there until about 1929 when they moved to 406 Goldenrod, Houston, Texas. Their daughter, Mildred, then had a house built on Dorchester, Houston, Texas, in which she and her mother lived until Mildred married in 1941, and Ida Evalena Vance-Davison went to live with another daughter, Elsie Arvilla Davison-Simpson with whom she lived until she died June 19, 1953. She had fallen 13 months before and suffered a broken right hip. She died of heart failure. She was born January 15, 1863. Aged 90 years, 5 months and 4 days at the time of her death. Cyrus Elmer Davison died three days later, June 22, 1953 of a stroke, at the home of another daughter, Ethel Marie Davison-Roberts. He was 88 years, 3 months and 12 days of age. they are buried in Rest Haven Cemetery, north of Houston, Texas.
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