"A people who take no pride in the noble achievement of remote ancestry, will never achieve anything worthy to be remembered by remote descendants."  
- Lord Thomas Macaulay
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Parents

 Grand Great Great x2 Great x3 Great x4 Great x5 Great x6 Great x7 Great x8 Great x9 Great x10
Heastings       Robert Eleazer Eleazer              
Hastings Jay Paul Edwin                    
Withrow     Elizabeth J. Elmer Cyrus Rings

John P.

 John            
Blasy       Lillian Paul Frederick              
Gibson         Mary Ellen John John            
Brant         Sarah Henry              
West       Mary Ellen Martin                
Downing         Sarah                
McCracken         Margaret                
Peebles           Harriet              
Rings           Susannah              
Welshons           Mary              
Hegerman             Jane            
Speyerer   Mary Fred George Frederic                
Davis     Thelma Hiram Augustus Lawrence John Richard          
Geisenberg       Pauline Isaac                
Geissberger           Simon Marx            
Dobyns       Mary Paigie                  
Reynolds         Julia Ann John              
Huff           Elizabeth Benjamin            
Luttrell             Melinda            
Coe               Priscilla William Richard Richard    
Dreyfus         Harriet                
Rau           Bessla Low Joseph            
Berryhill             Sara Robert Samuel Joseph John Alexander  
Hilliard           Temple              
Milstead                 Jane        
Ford                   Jane      
Holliday               Mary          
Price/Preecs                   Hannah      
Bigness                     Mary    
Cartwright                       Lady Jane Lord John
                          Lady Jane

 

My Mother's Side My Father's Side

Captain Davis' Civil War Diary for Campaign of 1864

Civil War Letters from Augustus Davis to Julia Ann Reynolds

Civil War Roster - 7th Miss Infantry, Co. K

Civil War Letter from Hiram Reynolds (Julia's brother) with story of Reenactment Portrayal

A Note about the Heastings Family Name

Home

Credits:  All of my information has come from family sources.  I am but a humble gatherer of information.  

The majority of it, on my Mother's side, has come from the generosity of my Uncle Harry "Buzz" Speyer,

whom I cannot thank enough.   After that, my thanks go to my Internet cousins:  Helen Williams,

Allen Reynolds, Diane Speyerer, and Betty Davis Lynch.  Special thanks go to Temple Davis for her

work and transcribing the Davis letters.

On my Father's side, I thank Mary Parks, Red McAllister, Jacque Boyd, and Annie and Dick Blasy for their contributions.

For having a Mother's side and a Father's side, I would like to thank my parents.

 

The Davis House The Davis House or the Reynolds House?  This is the house that Augustus Davis and Julia Ann Reynolds lived in in Roxie, Mississippi.  In the yard are the headstones for John Reynolds and Temple Hilliard.

 

According to my Uncle Buzz: "The old Davis House is crumbling fast.  The highway workmen know about

the graves and keep the weeds cut to keep from accidentally knocking them over."

This image is of an oil painting painted on a piece of wood from the house.

 

According to Temple Davis: "There is a misconception that I have encountered on several occasions.  It is that the Davis home was on the Reynolds land where the Reynolds graves are that I discovered in 1980.  That was not the home of Julia and Augustus Frederick, the Davis home.  That was the Reynolds home where Hiram and Julia lived with their parents.  The parents are buried on that property, and it is thought that Hiram, after his death in the war and after Julia brought his body back, is buried on the Reynolds land by his parents.  There is a grave for him by Julia and Augustus Frederick, but he is not buried there to my knowledge.  I believe that sketch of a house is of the Reynolds house, not the Davis house.  The Reynolds house, in part, is still there, and I went there a number of times.  I took flowers to the Reynolds graves, and cleaned the Davis graves at the Roxie cemetery with my father.  The Davis house was on Davis hill, it burned to the ground, and is gone.  The Reynolds land is now owned by the adopted son of a Davis, and he has a locked gate on the entrance of the property.  That the Reynolds land is "Davis hill" is just a misunderstanding.  The Reynolds property was the home of Julia's parents.  Her home was on Davis hill.  To my knowledge, there is no sketch of the Davis home, which burned to the ground."