When Anna T. Davis was born on 9 July 1854, in Madison, Indiana, United States, her father, Richard Davis, was 44 and her mother, Edna Catherine Thomas, was 36. She married James Daniel Palmateer on 22 January 1871, in Clackamas, Oregon, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 2 daughters. She lived in Liberty Judicial Township, San Joaquin, California, United States in 1910 and Elkhorn Judicial Township, San Joaquin, California, United States in 1920. She died on 21 May 1927, in Stockton, San Joaquin, California, United States, at the age of 72, and was buried in Lodi Memorial Park and Cemetery, Lodi, San Joaquin, California, United States.
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English and Welsh: patronymic meaning ‘Dafydd's (son)’, equivalent to Welsh ap Dafydd, the Welsh form of David . The spelling Davis is more typical in southwestern England northwards as far as Lancashire, where the frequency of the surname largely reflects Welsh migration, but may sometimes represent a native English surname based on Davy (compare Davies ). Davis (including in the sense 2 below) is the eighth most frequent surname in the US. It is also very common among African Americans.
Irish and Scottish: adopted for Gaelic Mac Daibhéid ‘son of David’; see McDevitt . Compare Davies .
History: John Davis or Davys (c. 1550–1605) was an English navigator who searched for the Northwest Passage. — By the 18th century there were numerous persons named Davis in America, including the jurist John Davis, born in 1761 in Plymouth, MA, and Henry Davis, a clergyman and college president, who was born in 1771 in East Hampton, NY. — Jefferson Davis, born in 1808 in KY, was president of the Confederate States of America from 1861 to 1865.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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