Brief Life History of Willis Warner
When Willis Warner Davis Sr. was born on 3 April 1883, in DeKalb, Alabama, United States, his father, John Robert Davis, was 27 and his mother, Texas Anna Holmes, was 24. He married Erie Phillips on 17 April 1904, in DeKalb, Alabama, United States. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 2 daughters. He lived in Addison, Winston, Alabama, United States in 1930 and Guntersville, Marshall, Alabama, United States in 1940. He died on 29 September 1960, in Boaz, Marshall, Alabama, United States, at the age of 77, and was buried in Forrest Home Methodist Church Cemetery, Boaz, Marshall, Alabama, United States.
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- Willis W Davis, "United States Census, 1940"
- W W Davis, "Alabama County Marriages, 1809-1950"
- Willis Warner Davis, "United States World War I Draft Registration Cards, 1917-1918"
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1886
Statue of Liberty is dedicated.
1886 · Giving Working Men a Union
The largest union group in the United States during the first half of the 20th century. It still exists today but merged with The Congress of Industrial Organization.
1904
St. Louis, Missouri, United States hosts Summer Olympic Games.
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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