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Dennis Franklin Davis
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Dennis Franklin Davis
3/8/1927 - 12/18/1999
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Dennis Franklin Davis was born on March 8, 1927 in Calhoun County, Florida and died on December 18, 1999 in Tallahassee, Leon County, Florida. He lived to be 72 years old.
He was called "Pete". He married Marian Mason (11/14/1930-9/26/2015) | 
 | Census | 4/11/1930 | Blountstown FL (Calhoun County) | 3 yrs old | Starting on line 27, Walter T. Davis (head of household, age 26), Thelma P. (wife, age 22), Franklin (son, age 3), Fay (daughter, age 1). All were born in Florida. Walter lists his occupation as a contractor in the logging business. Both Walter and Thelma state they can read and write. Walter was 21 when first married and Thelma was 17.  |
| Census | 1/1/1940 | Lakeland FL (Polk County) | 12 yrs old | | # 531, Walter T. Davis (age 34), Patsy ( age 30), Franklin (son, age 13), Fay (daughter, age 11). All were born in Florida. Walter lists his occupation is a cabinet maker. Both Walter and Thelma state they can read and write. Adress: 1001 W. North st., Residence in 1935: Blountstown, Calhoun Co., Florida |
| Census | 1/1/1945 | Precinct 1 FL (Calhoun County) | 17 yrs old | | Page: 8, Line:9 -Walter (age 38 ), Patsy (36) Dennis F. (18), Faye (16). Walter job listed as defense. Dennis is in the Merchant Marines. All were born in FL. |
| Military | 2/16/1946 | Fort Mcpherson, Atlanta FL | 18 yrs old | | Name: Dennis F. Davis,
Birth Year: 1927,
Race: White, citizen,
Nativity State or Country: Florida,
State of Residence: Florida,
County or City: Calhoun,
Enlistment Date: Feb.16 , 1946,
Enlistment State: Georgia,
Enlistment City: Fort Mcpherson, Atlanta,
Branch: No branch assignment,
Branch Code: No branch assignment,
Grade: Private,
Grade Code: Private,
Term of Enlistment: Enlistment for the Panama Canal Department,
Component: Regular Army ,
Source: Enlisted Man, Philippine Scout or recall to AD of an enlisted man who had been transferred to the ERC,
Education: 4 years of high school,
Civil Occupation: Tinsmiths, coppersmiths, and sheet metal workers,
Marital Status: Single, without dependents |
| Other | 9/7/1946 | Miami FL | 19 yrs old | | Name: Dennis Davis,
Gender: Male,
Birth Date: 1927,
Arrival Date: Sept. 7,1946,
Port of Arrival: Miami, Florida,
Ship: MOTOR VESSEL - CAPTAIN ROBERT |
| Other | 2/16/1958 | Miami FL | 30 yrs old | | Name: Dennis F. Davis,
Age: 30,
Nationality: USA,
Birth Date: March 8, 1927,
Birth Place: Calhoun, Florida,
Arrival Date: Feb. 16 , 1958,
Port of Arrival: Miami, Florida,
Airline: PAA , Flight: 458,
Port of departure: Barranquilla, Colombia |
| Marriage | 5/1/1968 | Tallahassee FL (Leon County) | 41 yrs old | | Name:Dennis Franklin Davis, Bride: Miriam M. Burslem,
County of Marriage: Leon,
Marriage Date: May 1968,
Volume: 2639,
Certificate: 20735,
Source: Florida Department of Health
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| Land Deed | 1/26/1983 | FL (Calhoun County) | 55 yrs old | | DENNIS FRANKLIN DAVIS, MERIAM DAVIS ,A. N. GRIFFIN & MARTHA FAYE DAVIS GRIFFIN sells home to GLADYS PORTER & J. B. PORTER on 01/26/1983, DEED, CALHOUN Co. , Book:97, book:4, Location: S33, T1N, R8W |
| Death Certificate | 12/18/1999 | Tallahassee FL (Leon County) | 72 yrs old | | Name: Dennis Franklin Davis,
Gender: Male,
Race: White,
Birth Date: March 8, 1927,
Birth Place: Blountstown, Florida,
Father Name: Thomas W. Davis,
Mother Name: Patsy Brock,
Death Date: Dec. 18, 1999,Last Residence:
Tallahassee, Leon, Florida,
Type of Claim: Original SSN.
Signature on SSN Card: FRANKLYN DAVIS |
| Graveyard/Tombstone | 12/19/1999 | Tallahassee FL (Leon County) | 72 yrs old | | Name: Pete Davis,
Birth Date: 1927,
Death Date: 1999,
Cemetery: Culley's Meadow Wood Memorial Park
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| Newspaper | 9/26/2015 | Tallahassee FL (Leon County) | 16 yrs after death | Miriam M. Davis, 84, of Tallahassee died Saturday (9/26) at Westminster Oaks. A native of Sarasota, she came to Tallahassee in 1965 from Marietta, GA. She was a member of John Wesley United Methodist Church and was very active and involved in the church ministries. She volunteered for Meals on Wheels until just last year. One of her favorite pastimes was to do puzzles.
She was preceded in death by her husbands, David Eugene Burslem who died in 1965 and Dennis "Pete" Davis who died in 1999. She is survived by her son, David E (Deborah) Davis of Apalachicola; daughter: Lori (Wesley) Earley of Greenville, NC; sisters, Ruth Roddenberry of Tallahassee, Norma Schouboe of Lincoln, Nebraska, Nancy Shepard of Springdale, Arkansas; and grandchildren, Thomas Hartsfield of Lewisville, TX; Noah Earley, Gabriel Earley, James Dansereau, Jessica Dansereau, and Josh Dansereau.
Funeral services will be at John Wesley United Methodist Church on Wednesday (9/30) at 11:00 AM with a reception to follow. Interment and committal services will follow at 2:00 PM in MeadowWood Memorial Park, 700 Timberlane Rd, Tallahassee, FL. For friends who wish, the family suggests memorial donations to the John Wesley United Methodist Church, 1689 Old St Augustine Rd, Tallahassee, FL 32301 or the Children's Home Society, 1801 Miccosukee Commons Dr., Tallahassee, FL 32308 in lieu of flowers. Culley's MeadowWood Funeral Home is in charge of services. |
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1928 |
The Tamiami Trail opens. It opens the southernmost 275 miles of U.S. Highway 41 from State Road 60 in Tampa to U.S. Route 1 (SR 5) in Miami, Florida to tourist. It also destroys many of the Seminole Indian waterways and hinders their economy. |
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1957 |
The Miccosukee Tribe of Florida is organized under the 1934 US Indian Reorganization Act and recognized by the federal government. |
| 35 |
1962 |
The Seminole Tribe of Florida is organized under the 1934 US Indian Reorganization Act and recognized by the federal government. |
| 52 |
1979 |
The sovereign status of the Seminole Indian Tribe allows it to establish the first gambling establishment in FL. It is a bingo hall located on their Hollywood, FL reservation. |
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| 1 |
1928 |
Big bang theory was introduced |
| 9 |
1936 |
The first regular television broadcast happens in England |
| 11 |
1938 |
Hahn, Strassmann, Meitner and Frisch discover nuclear fission |
| 19 |
1946 |
The university of Pennsylvania develops the ENIAC computer, containing 18,000 vacuum tubes |
| 20 |
1947 |
Researches at Bell Labs invent the first transistor |
| 24 |
1951 |
The first color television is introduced in the U.S. |
| 25 |
1952 |
The first sex-change surgery was performed to change George Jorgensen into Christine Jorgensen. |
| 30 |
1957 |
Sputnik is launched by the Soviets and becomes the first artificial satellite to orbit the earth. It marks the beginning of the great "space race" between the Soviet Union and the U.S. |
| 33 |
1960 |
The ruby laser was created by Maiman |
| 35 |
1962 |
U.S. astronaut, John Glenn, orbits the earth |
| 38 |
1965 |
The first "space walk" was completed by the Soviet Union |
| 44 |
1971 |
The first unmanned spacecraft hit Mars and was launched by the Soviet Union |
| 47 |
1974 |
Discovery of "Lucy" in Africa, an almost complete hominid skeleton over 3 million years old, only 3 and a half feet tall but having adult teeth, a small brain, walked upright |
| 48 |
1975 |
Invention of the CAT scanner (computerized axial tomography) |
| 52 |
1979 |
First "test tube baby" from artificial insemination |
| 54 |
1981 |
AIDS is identified by scientist; The first reusable space shuttle, Columbia, is sent into space. |
| 59 |
1986 |
Moments after liftoff the space shuttle Challenger explodes, killing size astronauts and a New Hampshire teacher. |
| 62 |
1989 |
An asteroid comes relatively close to colliding with the earth |
| 63 |
1990 |
Hubble Space Telescope launched; optical defect discovered and repaired later in 1993. |
| 67 |
1994 |
The world watches comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 (S-L 9) colliding with Jupiter |
| 70 |
1997 |
First Pathfinder vehicle lands on Mars and begin sending first photographs of Martin landscape. These are made available on the internet. |
| 71 |
1998 |
Construction begins on the International Space Station. |
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| 11 |
1938 |
NEWS HEADLINES: Orson Wells' radio production of H.G. Well's War of the Worlds causes a national panic. |
| 12 |
1939 |
NEWS HEADLINES: The first regular television broadcast happens in the United States |
| 14 |
1941 |
NEWS HEADLINES: December 7, 1941 -- Japan launches a surprise attack on Pearl Harbor and the US officially declares war on Japan the following day. World War II begins for American soldiers. |
| 23 |
1950 |
NEWS HEADLINES: On June 25, the Korean War begins and the United Nations officially declaring war on North Korea two days later. |
| 28 |
1955 |
NEWS HEADLINES: Rosa Parks refuses to give her seat to a white man on a bus in Montgomery, AL. |
| 33 |
1960 |
NEWS HEADLINES: The first birth control pill was approved and made available to the public |
| 36 |
1963 |
NEWS HEADLINES: On November 22, President John F. Kennedy is assassinated in Dallas, Texas by Lee Harvey Oswald. |
| 42 |
1969 |
NEWS HEADLINES: In July, the U.S. becomes the first nation to land astronauts on the moon. Neil Armstrong becomes the first man to step on the lunar surface. |
| 43 |
1970 |
NEWS HEADLINES: U.S. forces invade Cambodia and the Vietnam War continues to escalate. Janis Joplin and Jimi Hendrix die of drug overdoses. Four Kent State University students are killed during a Vietnam War protest. |
| 50 |
1977 |
NEWS HEADLINES: Star Wars is released and becomes the biggest ticket selling movie of all time. |
| 57 |
1984 |
NEWS HEADLINES: The first Macintosh computer with a mouse is launched and begins the computer age as it is shortly followed by the first PC and Microsoft. |
| 65 |
1992 |
NEWS HEADLINES: The "World Wide Web" (Internet) became available for home use through college and university sponsored "freenets". |
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1929 |
Widespread prosperity of the 1920s ends abruptly with the stock market crash in October |
| 3 |
1930 |
Drought in the Great Plains area begins, creating hardship for farm families in 19 states. |
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1932 |
Amelia Earhart becomes the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean. The infant son of Charles Lindbergh is kidnapped and murdered. |
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1933 |
Franklin D. Roosevelt is elected president under his "New Deal" campaign. Frances Perkins becomes the first woman to hold a cabinet post when FDR appoints her secretary of labor. On December 5, the 21st Amendment is added to the Constitution, repealing Prohibition. Drinks for everyone! |
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1934 |
Congress passes the Indian Reorganization Act which allows remaining Indian tribes to reorganize. |
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1934 |
Farm families must leave the dust bowl-stricken Great Plains areas. The dust bowl includes areas in Kansas, Oklahoma, Texas, New Mexico, Nevada and Arkansas. Radio picks up the "Okie" songs. In all, 400,000 people leave the Great Plains. |
| 8 |
1935 |
Congress passes the Social Security Act, giving elder Americans Social Security money for the first time. |
| 12 |
1939 |
Hollywood releases The Wizard of Oz, one of the first films to be made in color. |
| 16 |
1943 |
Japanese Americans are relocated to internment camps; Almost 400,000 coal miners go on strike; Race riots break out in Los Angeles and Detroit. |
| 17 |
1944 |
On June 6, Allied forces invade Normandy (referred to as "D-Day") |
| 18 |
1945 |
President Roosevelt dies; The United Nations is established; the first atomic bomb is dropped on Hiroshima. |
| 27 |
1954 |
The nationally televised McCarthy hearings lead to Senator Joseph McCarthy's downfall; Segregation by race in schools is declared unconstitutional by the Supreme Court; Congress adds the words "under God" to the Pledge of Allegiance and requires "In God We Trust" to appear on all American currency. |
| 35 |
1962 |
The Cuban missile crisis escalates and Americans prepare for a Nuclear War with Fidel Castro in Cuba. |
| 39 |
1966 |
The Black Panther party is founded. |
| 40 |
1967 |
Martin Luther King leads an anti Vietnam protest in New York; The American Indian Movement is founded; Robert Kennedy and Martin Luther King are assassinated; Three Apollo astronauts are killed in a fire on the launch pad. |
| 44 |
1971 |
Charles Manson is found guilt of murder. |
| 45 |
1972 |
Break-in at the Democratic headquarters sets of the Watergate Scandal. |
| 46 |
1973 |
The Vietnam War peace pacts were signed in Paris and the last of the American forces finally leave Vietnam. |
| 50 |
1977 |
Jimmy Carter, a Democrat from GA, is elected president. |
| 54 |
1981 |
Ronald Reagan is elected president. He will serve two terms. (Republican) |
| 60 |
1987 |
January 24 - approximately 20,000 protesters march through Cummings, Georgia in all White Forsyth County. |
| 60 |
1987 |
President Reagan and Soviet leader Gorbachev meet in Washington and sign an agreement calling for the dismantling of all Soviet and US missiles. |
| 62 |
1989 |
George Bush is elected president. (Republican) |
| 66 |
1993 |
Bill Clinton is elected president. He will serve two terms. (Democrat) |
| 67 |
1994 |
O.J. Simpson is chased down by police and later his trial is telecast for the world to watch. |
| 70 |
1997 |
A robust economy creates the longest prosperity in U.S. history. |
| 72 |
1999 |
United States budget goes into surplus. |
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1938 |
Hitler annexes Anschluss into Germany. At the Munich Conference, Germany is given a portion of Czechoslovakia. |
| 12 |
1939 |
Hitler takes over all of Czechoslovakia. On Sept. 1st, Germany invades Poland. On Sept. 3rd, Great Britain and France declare war on Germany. World War II has begun. |
| 18 |
1945 |
World War II ends with a Japanese delegation signing instrument of surrender aboard battleship Missouri in Tokyo Bay. |
| 62 |
1989 |
The Berlin Wall falls uniting communist East Germany and capitalistic West Germany |
| 63 |
1990 |
Iraq (Sadam Hussein) invades Kuwait causing the U.N. to impose sanctions. This leads to the Gulf War. |
| 65 |
1992 |
North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) is formed. |
| 66 |
1993 |
South Africa accepts racial equality. |
| 69 |
1996 |
Pope John Paul II affirmed evolution by natural selection |
| 72 |
1999 |
Yugoslavia breaks up and Serbia is contained. |
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