Posted By:Pauline Reynolds
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Subject:Re: Davis family info needed
Post Date:January 15, 2009 at 19:40:55
Message URL:http://genforum.genealogy.com/tx/brown/messages/556.html
Forum:Brown County, TX Genealogy Forum
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John....Here are several people researching this family. This is from Rootsweb's WorldConnect. If you haven't used the site before, click on the highlighted names for additional information.

http://worldconnect.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=Search&includedb=&lang=en&ti=&surname=davis&stype=Exact&given=dooley&bplace=&byear=1889&brange=0&dplace=&dyear=&drange=0&mplace=&myear=&mrange=0&father=&mother=&spouse=&skipdb=&period=All&submit.x=Search
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Texas Death Certificate site. Located Dooley Santford (spelling per certificate) Davis (1975) and his father Thomas Jefferson Davis (1952) certificates there.

http://search.labs.familysearch.org/recordsearch/start.html#c=1320964;p=2;t=searchable
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These census records are from HeritageQuest.

1920 Ward 5, Vernon County, Louisiana Census - ED 99, Page 206B - Enumerated 1 March:

Dooly S. Davis, head, renting 30, married, b. LA, parents b. LA, foreman/teams(?)

Mamie Davis, wife, 26, married, b. LA, father b. VA, mother b. LA

Irma Davis, daughter, 1-6/12, b. LA
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1930 Doucette, Tyler County, Texas Census - ED 229-2, Page 158A - Enumerated May 10:

Dooley Davis, head, renting/$16.00, 39, married at 28, b. LA, parents b. LA, labor/lumber mill(?)

Mayme Davis, wife, 36, married at 25, b. LA, father b. VA, mother b. LA

Irma O. Davis, daughter, 11, b. LA
Thomas Davis, son, 9, b. LA
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Listed as D. S. Davis and Mary M. Davis, here is where they are buried and their death years:

http://www.ci.stephenville.tx.us/services/cemeteries/Deceased%20Records/Last%20Name%20D.htm