When William Morgan Fite Davis was born on 6 October 1858, in Cookeville, Putnam, Tennessee, United States, his father, Stephen Davis, was 41 and his mother, Katherine Fite, was 39. He married Susan Menerva Baker on 25 December 1883, in White, Tennessee, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 5 daughters. He lived in Putnam, Tennessee, United States in 1880 and Civil District 1, Putnam, Tennessee, United States in 1900. He died on 14 March 1940, in Cookeville, Putnam, Tennessee, United States, at the age of 81, and was buried in Cookeville, Putnam, Tennessee, United States.
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The battle of Shiloh took place on April 6, 1862 and April 7, 1862. Confederate soldiers camp through the woods next to where the Union soldiers were camped at Pittsburg Landing on the Tennessee River. With 23,000 casualties this was the bloodiest battle of the Civil War up to this point.
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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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