In the deeds

 

FamilySearch. Vermilion County, Illinois. 1865.

After seeing the photo of my 3rd-great-grandparents William and Emily (who often went by Rachel E. Allman), I looked again on FamilySearch Full-text search for deeds in Vermilion County, Illinois involving the couple. Above is a sale of 8 acres by William and Emily to John Edwards, of land that had been partitioned from the estate of Azariah Davis, Emily's father.

Another land sale from 16 March 1867 shows the couple selling off 5 more acres partitioned from the estate. They sold off 5 more acres from the estate on 30 March 1867 to John Price. An earlier land sale shows Emily and her Davis siblings jointly selling off a plot of land from the estate on 7 February 1865.

On 20 April 1861, Emily and her Davis siblings executed a sale of land for the benefit of their father's second wife, Hettie Redman Davis.

FamilySearch. 20 Apr 1861.

There are a ton of deeds to sort through on the Allman and Davis families in Vermilion County. I'm in the process of separating out the ones that connect backward from William and the ones belonging to the Davis line.