Brief Life History of Alma Viola
When Alma Viola Davis was born on 10 October 1896, in South Dakota, United States, her father, Clark Luther Davis, was 30 and her mother, Mary Etta Porter, was 29. She died on 17 August 1898, in her hometown, at the age of 1, and was buried in Ipswich, Edmunds, South Dakota, United States.
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Family Time Line
Sources (1)
- Alma Davis, "Find A Grave Index"
Parents and Siblings
1865–1901 Male
1867–1961 Female
Siblings (4)
1889–1965 Male
1892–1957 Male
1893–1983 Female
1896–1898 Female
World Events (1)
1898 · War with the Spanish
Age 2
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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