1.  Marriage Record:

2.  1840 U.S. Census Index/Images (online at Ancestry.com, Image #7-8 of 14; official enumeration began 1 Jun 1840; extracted by Diana Gale Matthiesen):

1840

PA

Indiana Co.

Borough of Blairsville

Roll 463

pp. 30B-31A

Ln. 16

Chester Davis

000 010 - 110 010

0001000

These data indicate:

No. & Sex	Age Class	Therefore Born	Individuals Inferred
1 male	20-29	1810-1820	= Chester (b. 1817)
1 female	4 or under	1835-1840	= Elizabeth (b. 1838/9)
1 female	5-9	1830-1835	= ?
1 female	20-29	1810-1820	= Eliza (b. 1819)
1	person employed in manufactures and trades

Chester and Eliza are very young to have a child over 5 years of age; is she a sibling?  Listed next to Chester's father, Stewart DAVIS.

3.  1850 U.S. Census Every-Name-Index/Images (online at Ancestry.com, Image #10 of 28):  Blairsville Borough, Indiana Co., PA, Roll M432_785, p. 70B, 972/976, enumerated 27 Aug 1850, official enumeration date 1 Jun 1850 (extracted by Diana Gale Matthiesen):

C C Davis	33	M		Cabinetmaker	1300	Pa
Eliza   "	31	F				Do
Elizabeth "	11	F				Do
Morilla   "	9	F				Do
Samuel    "	7	M				Do
Letitia   "	5	F				Do
Steuart   "	1	M				Do
Alexander Ferguson	33	M		Cabinetmaker		Do
John Bair	19	M				Do
Martha Piper	18	F				Do

4.  1860 U.S. Census Every-Name-Index/Images (online at Ancestry.com, Image #4 of 26):  Blairsville P.O., Borough of Blairsville, Indiana Co., PA, Roll M653_1116, p. 38B, PN 4, 30/30, enumerated 1 Jun 1860, official enumeration date 1 Jun 1860 (extracted by Diana Gale Matthiesen):

Chester C. Davis	43	M		Master Cabinet Maker			Pennsylvania
Eliza        "	41	F					Do
Elizabeth    "	20	F					Do
Morilla M    "	19	F					Do
Samuel       "	17	M					Do
Luticia      "	13	F					Do
Phoebe ?     "	9	F					Do
William H    "	5	M					Do
Cary         "	2	F					Do

Stewart is missing and presumed dead.

5.  1870 U.S. Census Every-Name-Index/Images (online at Ancestry.com, Image #15 of 27):  Blairsville P.O., Blairsville Borough, Indiana Co., PA, Roll M593_1350, p. 104A, PN 15, 116/125, enumerated 24 Jun 1870, official enumeration date 1 Jun 1870 (extracted by Diana Gale Matthiesen):

1870:  for an explanation of the column headings, please see What the Numbers in the Federal Census Mean (missing columns contained no data).

1

2

3

4

5

6

7

8

9

10

15

18

19

20

166

125

Davis C C

52

M

W

Auctionier

500

1500

Penna

/

_____ Eliza

50

F

W

"

_____ Fanie?

18

F

W

"

/

_____ William

15

M

W

Tanner?

"

/

_____ Carrie

12

F

W

"

/

_____ Sarah

7

F

W

"

/

McCarty Thos

55

M

W

Cabinet MK???

"

Insane

/

/

This enumerator's handwriting is an illegible scrawl.  My extraction isn't verbatim because there's nothing to copy exactly.  Listed next to Stewart Archibald DAVIS (æ 29), whom I suspect is Chester's nephew — this Stewart is not Chester's son as some have assumed (note his age).

6.  1880 U.S. Census Every-Name-Index/Images (online at Ancestry.com, Image #20 of 24):  Market Street, Blairsville, Indiana Co., PA, Roll 1135, p. 79D, PN 20, SD 8, ED 130, enumerated 8 Jun 1880, official enumeration date 1 Jun 1880 (extracted by Diana Gale Matthiesen):

1880:  for an explanation of the column headings, please see What the Numbers in the Federal Census Mean (missing columns contained no data).

1

2

3

4

5

6

8

9

10

13

21

24

25

26

*

206

232

Davis Chester C?

W

M

63

/

Cabinet Maker

Penna

Conn

Mass

_____ Eliza

W

F

61

Wife

/

Keeps House

Penna

Penna

Maryland

_____ Jane P

W

F

24

Daughter

/

Penna

Penna

Penna

_____ Carrie E

W

F

21

Daughter

/

Penna

Penna

Penna

_____ Sallie Z?

W

F

14

Daughter

/

Going to School

/

Penna

Penna

Penna

Mc Cartney Thomas

W

M

64

Boarder

/

Cabinet Maker

Penna

Penna

Penna

*Market Street

Listed ten households from Stewart [D.] DAVIS.

7.  1890 U.S. Census:  the 1890 Census Population Schedules were destroyed.

8.  Find-a-Grave: Entries (online at findagrave.com):

Name	Chester G. Davis	Eliza M. Morton Davis
Birth	1817, Indiana Co., PA	1811
Death	1896, Indiana Co., PA	1896, Indiana Co., PA
Note	"Chester G. Davis helped the slaves of the South with the Blairsville Underground Railroad.  His store on Market Street in Blairsville was available for the slaves."
Burial	Blairsville Cemetery Blairsville, Indiana County, Pennsylvania
Inscription	DAVIS CHESTER C. 1817 — 1896 ELIZA M. 1819 — 1906
Spouse	Eliza M. Morton Davis	Chester G. Davis
Memorial #	117204430	117204613

9.  John Alexander Caldwell.  1880.  History of Indiana County, Pennsylvania, 1745-1880.  Wadsworth Publ. Co., Newark, OH (online at freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~treasures/pa/indiana/):

Chap. 55 p. 362

Chester C. Davis, a son of Stewart Davis, was born in Black-lick township in 1817.  His children were:  Amy Elizabeth, m. to M. B. Lowry, D. D. S.; Martha Morilla, m. to Joseph Gwinner, d.; Samuel W., d., m. to Hettie Quirk; Lettie, m. to Theodore S. Fleming; Alexander S.; Phebe Jane; Edgar Swazey, d.; William Henry; Carrie; Charles Calvin, d.; Sallie B.; and Cora Jane, d.  Samuel W. was the first native of Blairsville to enter the army.  He entered Co. I, 11th Pa. R. C., and served twenty-two months.  After his discharge he re-enlisted in Knapp’s battery and joined General Sherman at Atlanta, and served till the close of the war.  In the same year he went to Omaha and joined General Sully’s command, and went to the Rocky Mountains, serving in the Indian wars of 1865-6, coming home by way of California, the Isthmus and New York.  He died in 1877, in his thirty-fifty year.  Chester C. Davis  has been a public auctioneer since 1839, and till within a few years has done all the outcrying for twenty miles in all directions from Blairsville.

10.  WorldConnect / Ancestry World Trees (online at RootsWeb.com/Ancestry.com).