Brief Life History of William Nelson
When William Nelson Davis was born on 28 June 1916, in Provo, Utah, Utah, United States, his father, Henry William Davis Jr., was 47 and his mother, Charlotte Lottie Nelson, was 42. He married Ruth Anna Wilkins on 18 January 1939, in Heber City, Wasatch, Utah, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 3 daughters. He lived in Utah, Utah, United States in 1920 and Election Precinct 5, Salt Lake, Utah, United States in 1940. He died on 5 September 1968, in Orem, Utah, Utah, United States, at the age of 52, and was buried in Orem, Utah, Utah, United States.
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- William N Davis, "United States 1950 Census"
- William Nelson Davis, "Utah, County Marriages, 1887-1940"
- William Nelson Davis, "Utah, World War II Draft Registration Cards,1940-1947"
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1917
U.S. intervenes in World War I, rejects membership of League of Nations.
1918 · Chapman Branch Library
The Chapman Branch Library is a Carnegie library that was built in 1918 and is now is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
1931
The Star-Spangled Banner is adopted as the national anthem.
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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Charlotte Nelson Davis
By Howard W. Davis (Edited by John Davis) She was born in Ballyshannon, Donegal county, Ireland the 23 day of November 1873. Her father was a carpenter and furniture maker (his was the only mill i …
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