Brief Life History of Wilford
When Wilford Davis was born on 18 January 1887, in Malad, Oneida, Idaho, United States, his father, Richard Jenkins Davis, was 60 and his mother, Elizabeth Cozzens, was 37. He married Mara Celia Jones on 22 December 1921, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 2 daughters. He lived in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States in 1921 and Idaho Falls, Bonneville, Idaho, United States in 1930. He registered for military service in 1917. He died on 5 April 1932, in Butte, Silver Bow, Montana, United States, at the age of 45, and was buried in Wasatch Lawn Memorial Park, Millcreek, Salt Lake, Utah, United States.
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- Wilford Davis in household of Moses C Davis, "United States Census, 1910"
- Wilford Davis, "Montana, County Births and Deaths, 1840-2004"
- Wilford Davis, "Utah, County Marriages, 1887-1937"
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1889
Montana is 41st state.
1890
Death by suicide of van Gogh.
1900 · Gold for Cash!
This Act set a price at which gold could be traded for paper money.
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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