Brief Life History of Maggie Estelle
When Maggie Estelle Davis was born on 23 January 1870, in Greene, Alabama, United States, her father, Attoway R. Davis, was 23 and her mother, Louella Rutledge, was 22. She married James Henry Harding on 6 October 1904, in St. Louis, St. Louis, Missouri, United States. She lived in Vandalia, Audrain, Missouri, United States in 1935 and Martinsburg, Audrain, Missouri, United States in 1940. She died on 5 October 1954, in Fulton, Callaway, Missouri, United States, at the age of 84, and was buried in Benton City, Audrain, Missouri, United States.
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- Maggie E Davis in household of Attoway J Davis, "United States Census, 1870"
- Maggie E Davis, "Missouri, County Marriage, Naturalization, and Court Records, 1800-1991"
- Maggie Estelle Harding, "Find A Grave Index"
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1871
Historical Boundaries: 1871: Audrain, Missouri, United States
1872 · The First National Park
Yellowstone National Park was given the title of the first national park by the U.S. Congress and signed into law by President Ulysses S. Grant. It is also believed to be the first national park in the world.
1896 · Plessy vs. Ferguson
A landmark decision of the U.S. Supreme Court upholding the constitutionality of racial segregation laws for public facilities if the segregated facilities were equal in quality. It's widely regarded as one of the worst decisions in U.S. Supreme Court history.
Name Meaning
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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