Brief Life History of Jesse Alvin
When Jesse Alvin Davis was born on 8 December 1923, in Stanton, Chilton, Alabama, United States, his father, Jesse B Davis, was 29 and his mother, Effie Obelia Miller, was 26. He married Beverly Irene Forshee on 18 December 1947, in Stanton, Chilton, Alabama, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 daughter. He died on 21 June 2007, at the age of 83, and was buried in Stanton, Chilton, Alabama, United States.
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- Jessie A Davis in household of Jessie B Davis, "United States Census, 1940"
- Jessie Alvin Davis, "Alabama County Marriages, 1809-1950"
- Jessie Alvin Davis, "Alabama, World War II Draft Registration Cards, 1940-1945"
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1927
Charles Lindbergh makes the first solo nonstop transatlantic flight in his plane The Spirit of St. Louis.
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.
1945 · Peace in a Post War World
The Yalta Conference was held in Crimea to talk about establishing peace and postwar reorganization in post-World War II Europe. The heads of government that were attending were from the United States, the United Kingdom and the Soviet Union. Later the Conference would become a subject of controversy at the start of the Cold War.
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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