Cornell Bingham Davis

Brief Life History of Cornell Bingham

When Cornell Bingham Davis was born on 10 March 1914, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States, his father, Fred World Davis, was 25 and his mother, Emma Bingham, was 26. He married Elberta Lucille Darrow on 3 August 1939, in Yuma, Yuma, Arizona, United States. They were the parents of at least 5 daughters. He lived in Genola, Utah, Utah, United States in 1930 and Utah, United States in 1930. He died on 29 March 1981, in Spanish Fork, Utah, Utah, United States, at the age of 67, and was buried in Payson City Cemetery, Payson, Utah, Utah, United States.

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Family Time Line

Cornell Bingham Davis
1914–1981
Elberta Lucille Darrow
1917–2010
Marriage: 3 August 1939
Bertie Lu "Teri" Davis
1940–2024
Patricia Davis
1941–2000
Cheryl Davis
1944–2012
Sharla Rae Davis
1950–2008
Rebecca Sue Davis
1953–2013

Sources (28)

  • Cornell Bingham Davis in household of Fred World Davis, "The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Church Census Records (Worldwide), 1914-1960"
  • Cornell Brigham Davis, "Utah, Birth Certificates, 1903-1914"
  • Cornell Bingham Davis, "California, World War II Draft Registration Cards,1940-1945"

World Events (8)

1916 · The First woman elected into the US Congress

Jeannette Pickering Rankin became the first woman to hold a federal office position in the House of Representatives, and remains the only woman elected to Congress by Montana.

1916 · No-Ni-Shee Arch

The No-Ni-Shee Arch was a temporary archway near the intersection of Main Street and South Temple in downtown Salt Lake City. The archway was built in 1916 for the Wizard of the Wasatch festival. The name No-Ni-Shee was derived from a mythical American Indian Salt Princess. Her tears caused the Great Salt Lake to be salty. The arch was dedicated to her and sprayed with salt water so that salt eventually crystallized on Main Street. The Wizard’s carnivals enlivened Utah’s summers for several years. The last Wizard of the Wasatch carnival was held in 1916, on the eve of World War I.

1932

Amelia Earhart completes first solo nonstop transatlantic flight by a woman.

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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