Brief Life History of Robert Cornelius
When Robert Cornelius Davis was born on 24 February 1879, in Randolph, North Carolina, United States, his father, Arlendo Davis, was 21 and his mother, Eunice Priscilla Millikan, was 21. He married Viola Ann Robbins on 29 December 1900, in Randolph, North Carolina, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 4 daughters. He lived in Back Creek Township, Randolph, North Carolina, United States in 1900 and High Point, Guilford, North Carolina, United States for about 10 years. He died on 3 June 1942, in Randleman, Randolph, North Carolina, United States, at the age of 63, and was buried in Sophia, Randolph, North Carolina, United States.
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- Robert C Davis in household of Frank T Wood, "United States Census, 1940"
- Robt C Davis, "North Carolina, County Marriages, 1762-1979 "
- Robert Cornelius Davis, "United States World War I Draft Registration Cards, 1917-1918"
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1881 · The Assassination of James Garfield
Garfield was shot twice by Charles J. Guitea at Railroad Station in Washington, D.C. on July 2, 1881. After eleven weeks of intensive and other care Garfield died in Elberon, New Jersey, the second of four presidents to be assassinated, following Abraham Lincoln.
1882 · The Chinese Exclusion Act
A federal law prohibiting all immigration of Chinese laborers. The Act was the first law to prevent all members of a national group from immigrating to the United States.
1896 · Plessy vs. Ferguson
A landmark decision of the U.S. Supreme Court upholding the constitutionality of racial segregation laws for public facilities if the segregated facilities were equal in quality. It's widely regarded as one of the worst decisions in U.S. Supreme Court history.
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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