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Family
Marriage: Children:
  1. Sarah Jane Davis: Birth: 20 APR 1877 in Garysburg, Northampton County, North Carolina. Death: 29 DEC 1935 in Garysburg, Northampton County, North Carolina

  2. Annie Davis: Birth: OCT 1880 in Garysburg, Northampton County, North Carolina. Death: JAN 1962 in Albany, New York

  3. Millie Davis: Birth: JAN 1882 in Garysburg, Northampton County, North Carolina. Death: in Portsmouth, Virginia

  4. Emma Davis: Birth: JAN 1887 in Garysburg, Northampton County, North Carolina. Death: OCT 1953 in Portsmouth, Virginia

  5. Ned Barry Davis: Birth: JAN 1889 in Garysburg, Northampton County, North Carolina. Death: DEC 1980 in Portsmouth, Virginia

  6. Orlandis Davis: Birth: JAN 1890 in Seaboard, Northampton, North Carolina. Death: 3 DEC 1971 in Portsmouth, Virginia

  7. Benjamin Franklin Davis: Birth: 22 APR 1897 in Garysburg, Northampton, North Carolina. Death: 1927 in Garysburg, Northampton, North Carolina

  8. John Alvester Davis: Birth: 23 DEC 1899 in Seaboard, Northampton, North Carolina. Death: 21 FEB 1974 in Portsmouth, Virginia


Sources
1. Title:   Death Certificate
Author:   North Carolina State Board Of Health
2. Title:   Census of 1870-Northampton, North Carolina
Page:   Page 30
Author:   Federal Bureau Of Census
3. Title:   Census Of 1880-Northampton County, North Carolina
Page:   Entry #432/452-page 40
Author:   Federal Bureau Of Census
Publication:   Occoneeche Township
4. Title:   Bracey.paf
5. Title:   Darryl Eley I2.FTW

Notes
a. Note:   Bettie Bracy was born in August 1859. She was a slave for only six years. She grew up learning how to clean and cook for her mother, Jane. She was a very intelligent and outspoken lady. She was light to brown-skinned, medium build, medium height, and stout. She was very conservative, assertive, and well-disciplined person.
 She met a man by the name of Robinson who could have been the father of her first three children. After the birth of her eldest daughter, Sarah (April 20, 1877), they moved out of the Bracy farm to a small house. She had two other children: Annie (November 9, 1880), and Millie (1882).
 She married Ned Raspberry Davis, a young man from Gaston, North Carolina, in around 1884/1885 in Garysburg, North Carolina.
 He is the son of Calvert Davis. They had five children: Emma Davis was born in 1885. Ned Raspberry Davis, Jr. was born in January 1889. Orlandis Davis was born on March 15, 1894. Benjamin Davis was born on April 22, 1897. Bettie became pregnant in March 1899. Her husband, Raspberry died.
 Bettie left for Virginia on a train from Margarettsville, North Carolina to Portsmouth, Virginia. She left her children with her daughter, Sarah, until she found a place to live. She had her youngest son, John on December 23, 1899. She had a bouncing baby boy for the last Christmas of the 19th Century. She moved to Portsmouth, Virginia with her mother, Jane, and all her children except Landis, who lived with his sister, according to the 1900 Northampton County Census. With a baby in her arms, she, her mother, and her children caught a train to Portsmouth on the Seaboard Railway System. After she got settled in Portsmouth, she sent for Landis.
 Her mother, Jane died in 1901. Betty and Daniel buried their mother, Jane, in Lincoln Cemetery in Portsmouth, Virginia. Daniel died in a house fire. She lived these hard times with the many children she had. The years came away with the truth of her life.
 She worked in the fields in Portsmouth as a farm worker. She worked on the Bunten farm which was located near Turnpike Road is located today. She sold fruits and vegetables in the downtown marketplace. She lived in many homes but settled in 1211 Maupin Street.
 Millie lived in Portsmouth, Virginia where she died and was buried in Fisher Hill in Portsmouth. John was married in 1915 to Elizabeth Davis in Portsmouth, Virginia. She had a life companion named Junius Riddick of Como, North Carolina who died in 1927. She died on June 27, 1930 in Portsmouth, Virginia. She was buried on June 30, 1930 by Roger's Funeral Home. She was buried in Lincoln Cemetery in an unmarked grave in Portsmouth, Virginia. She was 71 years old.
 Betty had problem with her stomach for many years. She had a condition called gastritis (according to her death certificate-located in the section on Deaths). John, her youngest child was living on Elizabeth Street when she was ailing. He was the last person to see her alive.
 Daniel Bracy loved Betty alot. John told the grandchildren about the times that Daniel would visit his sister. They were a close-knit family. She lived in many houses but the main house she lived in was on Maupin Street. My grandmother, Vera, remembered her as a very assertive woman who spoke her mind. Thomas Davis remembered her working on a wagon and working on the farms in Portsmouth. She worked with a lady that he could not remember because he was a young child when she died in 1930.


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