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8.	Alzedia Davis - bom October 14,	1875, died December 10, 1903.
9.	Theodosia Davis - bom February	24, 1877, died August 28, 1957.
10.	Florence V. Davis - bom April 26, 1879, died December 11, 1953.
11.	Samuel P. Davis - bom February	10, 1881, died June 10, 1945.
B.	Nancy Malinda Stanford - bom in Louisiana in 1839 according to the 1850
Marion County census. She was originally buried in the Gainesville cemetery, but her remains were moved to the Palestine cemetery in Picayune where she has a headstone that reads, born May 18, 1839, died May 15, 1881. This is the grandmother of Mrs. Nancy Smith. She said her grandmother first married David Summers on April 25, 1857, and the record is in the Hancock County Court House. Mrs. Smith gave us the below names and dates in a letter dated January 28, 1973. Nancy and David Summers had two boys:
1.	Tobias Summers - bom August 17, 1858, and died August 11, 1915.
He married Katie Stain and had: Otis, Emmitt, Victor, and Clara. He is buried in Poplarville, MS.
2.	Otis Summers - bom November 12, 1859, and died September 18, 1936. He had a large family in Oklahoma.
Nancy then married a second time to James Powell McGehee and had 12 more children:
3.	Mary Elizabeth McGhee - bom January 19, 1862, died August 30, 1862.
4.	James Ira McGhee - bom May26, 1864, died November 25, 1922.
5.	Henry Thomas McGhee - bom August 18, 1865, died April 18,
1936.
6.	Effie Delila McGhee - bom March 4, 1867, died October 8, 1874.
7.	John Slocum McGhee - bom June 6, 1868, died July 27, 1919.
8.	Emma Eleanor McGhee - bom February 27, 1870, died April 9,
1922.
9.	Edward Marion McGhee - bom September 21, 1871, died July 24, 1876.
10.	William George McGhee - bom January 31, 1874, died September 6, 1878.
11.	Leslie Lee McGhee - bom July 24, 1875, died February 12, 1941.
He married Florence Gray in Gulfport, MS. These are the parents of Mrs. Smith, the supplier of this information.
12.	Cora Virginia McGhee - bom July 24, 1875, died July 27, 1877. She was a twin to Leslie.
13.	Jasper Moore McGhee - bom July 2, 1877, died September 24, 1978.
14.	Asa Adolph McGhee - bom June 30, 1880, died May 17, 1955.
Mrs. Coa (Myrtle) Evans, of Picayune, MS, told us that Nancy was
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