Mystery Monday~Mary Jane Knight Davis

Mary Jane Knight, a daughter of Richard Knight & Temperance, was born  ca 1828, in Chesterfield County, South Carolina. ^{1 2}

Mary Jane Knight and Capt. Benjamin Thomas Davis were married about 1849 in South Carolina.³ Capt. Benjamin Thomas Davis, son of William Davis and Julia Thurman, was born in 1829 in Chesterfield, Chesterfield, South Carolina.⁴

They appeared as a family unit in both the 1850 and 1860 Census for Chesterfield County, South Carolina.^5 6

Benjamin Thomas served as Co-Captain of Company “E”, 21st SC Infantry with his brother Captain Alfred W. Davis. ^7–10 Captain B. T. Davis was killed on 28 May 1864 in the Battle at Bermuda Hundred/Ft. Stevens, Virginia. His brother Captain Alfred W. Davis assumed command of the 21st SC Infantry.¹¹ A Memorial has been created for him at www.findagrave.com.¹²

Captain Benjamin Thomas Davis death left his widow – Mary Jane Knight Davis. No record of Mary Jane Knight Davis has been found after the war. 

Does anyone know what happen to Mary Jane Knight after the death of her husband. They were no known Children and I have not been able to locate her after her husband death.

Did she re-marry?

If you have any info please contact me.












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1. 1850 U. S. Census, Chesterfield County, South Carolina, population schedule, Chesterfield County, South Carolina, Page 178A, Line 6, Dwelling 1218, Family 1218, Household of Benjamin F. DAVIS; digital images, Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com : viewed 11 March 2011); citing National Archives Microfilm M432 Roll 851.
2. 1860 U. S. Census, Chesterfield County, South Carolina, population schedule, Chesterfield County, South Carolina, Page 139A, Line 2, Dwelling 636, Family 635, Household of B. T. DAVIS; digital images, Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com : viewed 11 March 2011); citing National Archives Microfilm M653-1217.
3. 1850 U. S. Census, Chesterfield County, South Carolina, Population Schedule, Chesterfield County, South Carolina, Page 178A, Line 6, Dwelling 1218, Family 1218, Household of Benjamin F. DAVIS.
4. Ibid.
5. Ibid.
6. 1860 U. S. Census, Chesterfield County, South Carolina, Population Schedule, Chesterfield County, South Carolina, Page 139A, Line 2, Dwelling 636, Family 635, Household of B. T. DAVIS.
7. Randolph W. Kirkland Jr., Broken Fortunes: South Carolina Soldiers, Sailors and Citizens Who Died in the Service of Their Country and State in the War for Southern Independence, 1861-1865 (Columbia, South Carolina: Univ of South Carolina, 1997), page 87.
8. Johnson Hagood, Memoirs of the War of Succession (Camden, SC 29020: Jim Fox Books, 1997 (Reprint)), page 402.
9. Ancestry, "Civil War Service Records" database, Military Service Records (http://www.fold3.com/ : accessed 15 May 2012), entry for [Name:], [Rank]; [Unit]; [Side].
10. Ancestry, "Civil War Service Records," digital images, fold3.com (http://www.fold3.com : accessed 2012), Service record for B. Thomas Davis (Capt., Company E, Capt. B.T. Davis Company, 21st SCVI); citing National Archives microfilm publication "M267, Confederate Compiled Military Service Records.".
11. Kirkland, Broken Fortunes, page 87.
12. Jim Tipton, Find A Grave, digital image, http://www.findagrave.com; Headstone for B. Thomas "Tom" Davis; (); Memorial # 39176085; Record of the Chesterfield Cemetery; Chesterfield, Chesterfield County, South Carolina, USA; Accessed on 15 May 2012.