Brief Life History of Samuel Ezra
When Samuel Ezra Davis was born on 7 February 1901, in Elba, Genesee, New York, United States, his father, Frank Davis, was 25 and his mother, Larena Rosenbrook, was 22. He married Frances Miller on 8 July 1924, in Akron, Newstead, Erie, New York, United States. He lived in Oakfield, Genesee, New York, United States for about 5 years and Alabama, Genesee, New York, United States in 1940. He died on 20 September 2003, in Medina, Ridgeway, Orleans, New York, United States, at the age of 102, and was buried in Oakfield, Oakfield, Genesee, New York, United States.
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- Samuel E Davis, "United States Census, 1930"
- Samuel E. Davis, "Find A Grave Index"
- Samuel Davis, "United States, Social Security Numerical Identification Files (NUMIDENT), 1936-2007"
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1902 · So Much Farm Land
A law that funded many irrigation and agricultural projects in the western states.
1917 · Women Given the Right to Vote in New York
Voters in New York approve a bill giving women the right to vote. This is passed three years prior to the 19th amendment to the U.S. Constitution which allowed women to vote nationwide.
1929
13 million people become unemployed after the Wall Street stock market crash of 1929 triggers what becomes known as the Great Depression. President Herbert Hoover rejects direct federal relief.
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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