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The original Chevrolet business in Rockwood was owned by John Molyneux, my grandfather Joseph Thomas Davidson, and a man named East. Was called "Molyneux, Davidson, East, Chevrolet. John eventually bought them out, and the Molyneux Chevrolet company stayed in business for many years, after John died, and was owned by his youngest son, Harry.
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Mother's father, went on to become chief telegrapher for the Southern Railroad Yards in Chattanooga, and became a rather wealthy man on his own, I think. He bought stock in Anaconda Copper, in General Motors, in 20th Century Fox. He loved movies, so mother said. Grandmother (Selina Molyneux Davidson), was a quiet, shy person, who, as a young woman, was quite ill for many years. She had pernicious anemia, which was an illness that no one knew how to treat, until mother, was about 10 years old. She never learned to drive, always taking the street car or a bus. There was a child that lived only 2-3 days that they named Ellen, and she is buried in the cemetery at Rugby. Joe Davidson died in Jan, 1936, from pneumonia contracted while working in the signal box during winter. Mother wasa senior in college. He evidently was crazy about his only child, and sent her daily 1-2 page letters the entire 4 years that mother was in college, together with a $2 (or more) check. He put the check and a letter on the train each morning that went from Chattanooga to Johnson City where mother was in college (now East Tn. State University, then a teacher's college). Mother & Daddy met in high school. Daddy was the oldest of 6 children from Red Bank. He started taking drafting and art lessons in high school. They were engaged to be married in 1935, and mother taught first grade in Chattanooga schools for several years. They were to be married in the spring of 1936, but Joe Davidson died in Jan. of 1936. Grandmother had a nervous breakdown of sorts. Mother and daddy got married,but daddy worked in Knoxville as a graphic artist for T.V.A. Many of the original T.V.A. maps that are in books about T.V.A. were drawn by daddy. Both mother & daddy painted. We have many paintings (mostly scenery) that they made, including 2 portraits daddy made of mother. When mother's father died, they went ahead and got married, but grandmother was so upset, that mother continued teachingin Chattanooga, and Daddy worked in Knoxville, until shortly before I was born, in 1942. They then bought a house in Knoxville, only a few blocks from Aunt Margaret & Uncle Bell's house.
Grandmother always lived alone, in Chattanooga, but mother & Daddy, later with me, and with my sister Jeani, drove to Chattanooga every Fri evening after daddy got off work, until I was in college. (Am condensing a lot of this --but suffice it to say that I was born in 1942, my sister, Jean Ellen (named after grandmother Ellen, and daddy's favorite sister, Jean), in 1946. Grandmother lived until she was 83, and the last two years of her life she was quite ill, and finally went to live with mother & daddy in Kingsport (after I was married). Jeani, my sister, went to Allegheny College, later to Case Western Reserve to Library School, and got a job as an elementary school librarian in Andover, Ma. She owns a small house, in Arlington, Ma, near us. She has never married.
Selina Pendergrass Woods, Mar 28 2014

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Birth	4 Oct 1878	Bishop Auckland, Durham, England, United Kingdom
Christen	23 Oct 1878	St. Helen Auckland, Durham, England, United Kingdom
Census	1881	Shildon, Durham, England, United Kingdom
Immigration	22 May 1882	Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
Settlement	Apr 1890	Glenmary, Scott, Tennessee, United States
Naturalization	1894
Illness	26 Sep 1896	Glenmary, Scott, Tennessee, United States
Census	1900	Glenmary, Scott, Tennessee, United States
Marriage	4 Apr 1906	Glenmary, Scott, Tennessee, United States - Selina "Lena" Molyneux
Property	2 Mar 1907	Sold property for $200 - Glenmary, Scott, Tennessee, United States
Census	1910	Glenmary, Scott, Tennessee, United States
Property	12 Oct 1915	Owned property next to Ella Griffin - Glenmary, Scott, Tennessee, United States
Military Service	12 Sep 1918	Emory Gap Rd, Harriman, Roane, Tennessee, United States
Occupation	12 Sep 1918	Telegraph operator for Southern RR. - Emory Gap Rd, Harriman, Roane, Tennessee, United States
Census	1920	Chattanooga, Hamilton, Tennessee, United States
Census	1930	Chattanooga, Hamilton, Tennessee, United States
Death	14 Jan 1936	Influenza, Pneumonia - 1804 Chamberlain Ave, Chattanooga, Hamilton, Tennessee, United States
Burial	18 Jan 1936	Forest Hills Cemetery, Chattanooga, Hamilton, Tennessee, United States

Spouse	Selina "Lena" Molyneux (1886 - 1967)
Child	Ellen Davidson (1907 - 1907)
Child	Josephine Molyneux Davidson (1911 - 2012)

Father	Thomas Davidson (1850 - 1919)
Mother	Jane "Gin" Dixon (1852 - 1928)
Sibling	Jane Davidson (1872 - 1953)
Sibling	Rebecca Davidson (1874 - 1899)
Sibling	Jesse Dickson Davidson (1875 - 1932)
Sibling	John Dixon Davidson (1881 - 1881)
Sibling	Infant Davidson (1882 - )
Sibling	George Davidson (1883 - 1949)
Sibling	Anna D Davidson (1885 - 1956)
Sibling	Lettie Davidson (1890 - 1969)
Sibling	Mary Isabel Davidson (1892 - 1961)
Sibling	Marguerite Davidson (1894 - 1977)

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