When William Pierce Davis was born on 17 February 1888, in Denney, Wayne, Kentucky, United States, his father, Charles Fleming Davis, was 27 and his mother, Armilda Millie Branscum, was 25. He married Allie Alice Brown on 16 September 1920, in Pulaski, Kentucky, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son. He lived in Wayne, Kentucky, United States in 1910 and Mill Springs, Wayne, Kentucky, United States in 1920. He registered for military service in 1919. He died on 28 January 1951, in New Castle, Henry, Indiana, United States, at the age of 62, and was buried in New Castle, Henry, Indiana, United States.
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Historical Boundaries 1891: Wayne, Kentucky, United States
The world’s first movie theater was located in Pittsburgh. It was referred to as a nickelodeon as at the time it only cost 5 cents to get in.
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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