Daniel and Duranda Davis

This picture is a newspaper halftone of the couple’s portrait, probably taken in the 1860’s.  Daniel Davis was a nephew of Thomas Lovewell’s first wife. Nancy Davis, and a brother of his second wife, Orel Jane Davis.  The Lovewell and Davis families pushed the Kansas frontier west of the big bend of the Republican River.

Daniel & Duranda

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