Brief Life History of Lida Maryanne “Lidie”
When Lida Maryanne “Lidie” Davis was born on 6 December 1912, in Georgia, United States, her father, James Wesley Davis, was 32 and her mother, Lillie Eileen Osborne, was 30. She married John Ervin Smith on 4 May 1930, in Gwinnett, Georgia, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 1 daughter. She lived in Stone Mountain, DeKalb, Georgia, United States in 1920 and Berkshire, Gwinnett, Georgia, United States in 1930. She died on 15 June 1966, in Georgia, United States, at the age of 53, and was buried in Stone Mountain Cemetery, Stone Mountain, DeKalb, Georgia, United States.
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- Lidie Davis in household of James W Davis, "United States Census, 1920"
- Lida Davis, "Georgia, County Marriages, 1785-1950"
- Lida Maryanne Davis Smith, "Find A Grave Index"
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1913 · The Sixteenth Amendment
The Sixteenth Amendment allows Congress to collect an income tax without dividing it among the states based on population.
1922 · Women Granted the Right to Vote
The 19th Amendment, which allowed women the right to vote, was passed and became federal law on August 26, 1920. Georgia law prevented women from voting until 1922. The amendment wasn’t officially ratified until 1970.
1927
Charles Lindbergh makes the first solo nonstop transatlantic flight in his plane The Spirit of St. Louis.
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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