James william Davis

Male16 May 1961–24 February 1972

Brief Life History of James william

James william Davis was born on 16 May 1961. He died on 24 February 1972, at the age of 10, and was buried in Sutter, Sutter, California, United States.

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  • James William Davis, "Find A Grave Index"

World Events (3)

1962 · The Cuban Missile Crisis

Age 1

The Cuban Missile Crisis was a 13-day confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union because of Soviet ballistic missile deployment in Cuba. This confrontation was the closest that the Cold War became a nuclear war.

1963

Age 2

President John F. Kennedy is assassinated in Dallas, Texas.

1963

Age 2

"Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. , delivers his ""I Have a Dream"" speech before a crowd of 200,000 during the civil rights march on Washington, DC."

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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