Brief Life History of Hugh Beard
When Hugh Beard Davis Sr was born on 6 October 1902, in Rockbridge, Virginia, United States, his father, Matthew Ellis Davis, was 31 and his mother, Louisa ‘Lula’ Baxter Crist, was 29. He married Flora Margaret Smith on 8 November 1922, in Lexington, Rockbridge, Virginia, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 1 daughter. He lived in Lexington District, Rockbridge, Virginia, United States for about 20 years. He died on 13 March 1980, in Lexington, Rockbridge, Virginia, United States, at the age of 77, and was buried in Oak Grove Cemetery, Lexington, Virginia, United States.
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- Hugh Davis in household of Mathew Davis, "United States Census, 1910"
- Hugh Beard Davis, "Virginia, Library of Virginia State Archive, Births, Marriages, and Deaths 1853-1900"
- Hugh Beard Davis, "Virginia, Bureau of Vital Statistics, County Marriage Registers, 1853-1935"
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1903 · Department of Commerce and Labor
A short-lived Cabinet department which was concerned with controlling the excesses of big business. Later being split and the Secretary of Commerce and Labor splitting into two separate positions.
1917 · Camp Lee Training Facility
Camp Lee was the sight of where Europeans first came face to face with the Powhatan Confederation. Than during the Civil War the Union forces used it as a surprise attack and blocked Lee’s army from the supply base. When World War II started Fort Lee became Camp Lee and was used as a training facility.
1923 · The President Dies of a Heart Attack
Warrant G. Harding died of a heart attack in the Palace hotel in San Francisco.
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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