When David Reese Davis II was born on 24 January 1910, in Soda Springs, Bannock, Idaho, United States, his father, Albert Clark Davis, was 36 and his mother, Laura Melissa Hopkins, was 33. He married Mary Elizabeth McNabb on 21 September 1932, in Blackfoot, Bingham, Idaho, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons. He lived in Utah, United States in 1930 and Tyhee Election Precinct, Bannock, Idaho, United States in 1940. He died on 22 September 1981, at the age of 71, and was buried in Mountain View Cemetery, Pocatello, Bannock, Idaho, United States.