When James Thomas Monroe Davis was born on 26 July 1886, in Shannon, Randolph, Arkansas, United States, his father, John Franklin Davis, was 24 and his mother, Lula Alice Burnside, was 24. He married Rosabelle Marks on 22 December 1907, in Lawrence, Arkansas, United States. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 3 daughters. He lived in United States in 1949 and Wallowa, Wallowa, Oregon, United States in 1950. He died on 10 March 1975, in Wallowa, Oregon, United States, at the age of 88, and was buried in Enterprise Cemetery, Enterprise, Wallowa, Oregon, United States.
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Historical Boundaries: 1887: Wallowa, Oregon, 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.
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