When John Wade Davis was born on 17 July 1837, in North Hampton, Clark, Ohio, United States, his father, Jeptha V. Davis, was 34 and his mother, Matilda Haff Loofboro, was 33. He married Maria Lippincott on 10 October 1856, in Shelby, Ohio, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 2 daughters. He lived in Jackson Center, Jackson Township, Shelby, Ohio, United States for about 17 years. He died on 4 April 1917, in Jackson Township, Shelby, Ohio, United States, at the age of 79, and was buried in Baptist Cemetery, Dawkins Mills, Jackson, Ohio, 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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