EUGENIA DORMAN DAVIDSON & CHARLES OF HARBESON

EUGENIA C. DORMAN DAVIDSON

HARBESON'S GRAND OLD LADY

Harbeson's “grand old Lady” is today, Saturday. January 24^th, 1946, observing her

79^th birthday anniversary, with her husband , Charlres R. Davidson, age 82. Last December

they observed their 59^th wedding anniversary.

Gena, as she was better known, was born August 1867 in Indian River Hundred, Sussex

County, Delaware to Abraham H. and Mary Hester Rust Dorman of Hollyville. Her mother

died at Hollyville in 1874 when Gena was 7 years old. Abraham Dorman, her father, died

21 May 1907.

Eugenia and Charles are both members of the Beaver Dam Methodist Church at Harbeson

and are active in the community affairs. They were married in 1887.

They had five children, Wilbert, born in 1887, who lived in Wilmington, Chattie May ,

a daughter, born 1892, who married Harry C. Walls and also lived in Wilmington, another

daughter, Elsie, who married John Reynolds of Milton, Martin who lived in Philadelphia, and

Harland, which there is no record.

There are seven grandchildren , Captain Preston R. Walls of the Army, Elsie and Esther

Walls, Katerine and Wilbert Davidson, Jr., of Wilmington, Betty and Norman Reynolds of

Milton` and a great grandchild, George R. Walls.

Charles Davidson died 1948 and buried in Beaver Dam Cemetery, Harbeson,

Gena died in 1949 and is also buried in Beaver Dam Cemetery.