The Callans and McClarys, by John Edward Callan - Callanworld
The Callans and McClarys, by John Edward Callan - Callanworld
The Callans and McClarys, by John Edward Callan - Callanworld
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Chapter 20<br />
Dolphin Davis<br />
<strong>and</strong> Ophelia Chaffee<br />
<strong>John</strong> Murray Davis, Nancy<br />
McClary’s cousin, says that the<br />
Davis clan has always been<br />
known as a family of avid story<br />
tellers. From the tales included<br />
here in, it appears that they had<br />
wonderful material to work with.<br />
Springing from deep in the<br />
South, the Davis family has roots<br />
going back to the 1500s, <strong>and</strong> has<br />
a family tree that had sprawled<br />
from Alabama to Kansas <strong>by</strong> the<br />
mid 19 th century. After the Civil<br />
War, the family moved on to<br />
Kansas. Mathew Cary Davis <strong>and</strong><br />
his wife Bertha Elizabeth Murray<br />
came to Boonville in the early<br />
1900s, <strong>and</strong> his family has been<br />
rooted in Boonville ever since.<br />
It was there that Mathew<br />
<strong>and</strong> Bertha’s daughter Beth<br />
Davis was living when she met<br />
<strong>and</strong> married Nancy McClary’s<br />
father, Hubert (Bert) Clinton<br />
McClary.<br />
For Christmas 1988, Beth<br />
(Davis) McClary assembled a<br />
beautiful album of family photos<br />
<strong>and</strong> memories, from which most<br />
of this section is excerpted. She<br />
gave one of the albums to each<br />
of her children, <strong>and</strong> one to each<br />
of her nieces <strong>and</strong> nephews.<br />
In her dedication, she<br />
offered the following:<br />
“I have put together this<br />
book…so that you can remember<br />
your gr<strong>and</strong>father Davis <strong>and</strong><br />
know a little about the family he<br />
<strong>and</strong> your gr<strong>and</strong>mother came<br />
from.<br />
“I want you to share in the<br />
history of this family <strong>and</strong> make it<br />
your own. Someday when you<br />
have children of your own, you<br />
can get his album out <strong>and</strong> show<br />
them the pictures. This is your<br />
family, be proud of it <strong>and</strong> work<br />
hard to make it proud of you.”<br />
<strong>The</strong> most distant known<br />
Davis ancestor for which a<br />
photograph is known is<br />
Ophelia Chaffee Davis. Pictured<br />
on this page, she is the<br />
great, great gr<strong>and</strong>mother of<br />
Nancy McClary. <strong>The</strong> Davis<br />
family has its roots in the deep<br />
<strong>and</strong> rural South, having come<br />
up from Alabama to Missouri<br />
~ 81 ~<br />
after the Civil War. <strong>The</strong><br />
family’s recorded history dates<br />
back to even before the Revolutionary<br />
War.<br />
<strong>The</strong> most distant known<br />
Davis ancestor of Nancy<br />
McClary’s was a Thomas<br />
<strong>The</strong> <strong><strong>Callan</strong>s</strong> <strong>and</strong> <strong>McClarys</strong><br />
Ophelia Chafee Davis<br />
Davis, the great, great gr<strong>and</strong>father<br />
of Ophelia Chaffee Davis.<br />
<strong>The</strong> birthdate of Thomas Davis<br />
is not known, but it is known<br />
he married Hortense Hodge in<br />
1735. Thomas <strong>and</strong> Hortense<br />
are known because they were
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