I've got a lot of SILVERs in my tree, some are cousins, some are related by marriage only. After I saw your message, I looked at the Birth Index to find the parents of Mary Davis Silver, and found I have them in my tree. Her parents were WILLIAM LEE SILVER, b. 1904 Warren Co.,NC/d. Sept. 26, 1980 Louisburg, Franklin Co.,NC, and ANNIE RICHARDSON, b. June 21, 1908 Warren Co., d. June 24, 1990 Louisburg; they're both buried at the Tillman P. Lynch Cemetery in Halifax Co.
WILLIAM LEE SILVER was the son of JONES LEE ROBERT SILVER (1871-1947) & LOUISA L. RICHARDSON (1879-1949); JONES was the son of WILLIAM HENRY SILVER (1846-1929) & NANCY ANN RICHARDSON (1849-1926); WILLIAM H. was the son of JONES LEE (b.1825) & MARTHA SILVER, b. 1828. JONES LEE was white, he & MARTHA were not married, but they had several children together. MARTHA's mother was SUSAN SILVER (b. 1780/d.shortly after 1870) and an Unknown father; SUSAN was not married and had several children. She was the dau/of EDWARD SILVER & MILLY CHAVIS, b. 1749, from Granville Co.,NC.
These were all Free families who had never been slaves, so they are found in census, marriage and other records of the time.


Deloris