Brief Life History of George David
When George David Davis was born on 5 November 1846, in Winter Quarters, Washington, Nebraska, United States, his father, George David Varner Davis, was 23 and his mother, Caroline Frances Angell, was 21. He married Celestia Artemesia Green on 1 December 1866. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 6 daughters. He lived in Utah, United States in 1870 and Thomas, Bingham, Idaho, United States in 1910. He died on 22 April 1919, in Rupert, Minidoka, Idaho, United States, at the age of 72, and was buried in Minidoka Acequia Rupert Cemetery, Rupert, Minidoka, Idaho, United States.
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- Geo Holbrook, "United States Census, 1860"
- George David Davis, "Find A Grave Index"
- George Davis in entry for Mary Davis Bigler, "Idaho, Southeast Counties Obituaries, 1864-2007"
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1848
Historical Boundaries: 1848: Mexican Cession, United States 1850: Utah Territory, United States 1851: Davis, Utah Territory, United States 1896: Davis, Utah, United States
1863
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
1866 · The First Civil Rights Act
The first federal law that defined what was citizenship and affirm that all citizens are equally protected by the law. Its main objective was to protect the civil rights of persons of African descent.
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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