Genealogy for
Franklin Angus Davis Jr.
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Franklin Angus Davis Jr.
1/25/1881 - 1/20/1970
(Shown at age 78)
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Franklin Angus Davis, Jr., was born on January 25, 1881 somewhere in Florida and died on January 20, 1970 in Calhoun Co., Florida. He lived to be 89 years old.
Children:
Walter T. (1905)
Samuel (1907)
Mary Lucile (1914)
Falfa (1917)
Charles Ellis (1922) | 
 | Census | 6/2/1885 | FL (Calhoun County) | 4 yrs old | # 25 - Frank Davis (age33),
Josephine Davis (24),
William Davis (8),
Mathew M. Davis (6),
F. A. Davis (5),
Robert E. Davis (3) &
Febia Davis (1). Frank is a farmer. All were born in FL.
| Additional information about Calhoun County, FL around 1885: The principle towns in Calhoun County were Blountstown, Marysville, Chipola, Selman, Ocheesee, and Abe Springs. In 1884 railroads in Florida were bought out by one company and placed under central management. River Junction, located at the junction of the Chattahoochee and Flint Rivers, is the closest railroad and the primary hub of land transports. The photo on the right shows the iron bridge than spans the Chattahoochee River about a mile from the Depot at River Junction where wharves, storage, steamboats and hotels bussel with activity. Click the photo for a larger view. Click here to see a map from this timeperiod. | 
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| Census | 6/1/1900 | Hansfords Mill FL (Calhoun County) | 19 yrs old | Recorded as family #523: Frank A. Davis (age 47 - Mar.1853), Jessie L. ( age 36 - May 1864), William G. ( age 22 - Oct.1877), Mathew M. ( age 20 -July 1879), Frank A. Jr. ( age 19 -Feb.1881), Robert E. ( age 17 – Nov. 1882), Febbie R. ( age 15 - January 1885), Joseph I. ( age 14 -June 1886), Liza A. ( age 12 – May 1888), John E. (age 8 – Aug. 1891), Mary L. ( age 7 – Jan. 1893) and Daniel D. ( age 5 – Apr. 1895). All were born in Florida as were their parents. Jessie states that she is the mother of 11 children and 10 are currently living. They have been married 23 years. Frank Sr. states his occupation as Mill Wright and his son, William, is a laborer. William and Febbie have attended school through the 12th grade. They and their parents indicate they can read and write while the others say they cannot.
| Additional information about Calhoun County, FL around 1900: The first automobile, nick-named Chicken Killer, arrives in Blountstown in 1905. The photo on the right shows The Chicken Killer. Click the photo for a larger view. Click here to see a map from this timeperiod. | 
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| Military | 4/21/1917 | Blountstown FL | 36 yrs old | | WWI record for Pvt. Davis reports no injuries and an Honerable Discharge on 4/21/1917. He did not serve overseas. He enlisted on March 11, 1915 when he was 35 9/12 years old. |
| Military | 9/12/1918 | FL (Calhoun County) | 37 yrs old | | WWI Draft Registration Card #573: born 1/25/1881, states his occupation as farming with the ES Co. He has blue eyes and is medium in height. |
| Census | 4/13/1930 | Blountstown FL (Calhoun County) | 49 yrs old | | Starting on line 93: Frank A. Davis (head of household, age 49), Mary (wife, age 44), Lucile (daughter, age 15), Falfa (daughter, age 12), Ellis (son, age 8). They indicated they lived on a farm and that all had been born in Florida. Frank was 24 when first married and Mary was 19 years old. All indicated they could read and write. Class of worker is listed as "O". |
| Census | 1/1/1940 | Bloutstown FL (Calhoun County) | 58 yrs old | | #41 - Frank A. Davis (age 59),
Mary F. Davis (55),
C. Ellis Davis (17). All born in FL, They have the same residence as in 1935. Frank is a carpenter. They rent their home for $8 a month.
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| Census | 1/1/1945 | Precinct 1 FL (Calhoun County) | 63 yrs old | | page 1 - Frank A. Davis (64) & Mary Davis (59). Both born in FL. He is a carpenter with a 1st gr. education. She has an 8th gr. education. |
| Graveyard/Tombstone | 1/20/1970 | Blountstown FL (Calhoun County) | 89 yrs old | | Franklin A. Davis Jr. - 1/25/1881 to 1/20/1970 -Nettle Ridge Cemetery |
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Franklin, his family, and friends. For example, Franklin is 28 years old when The National Association for Advancement of Colored People is formed (NAACP)
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1882 |
The Florida Central and Western Railroad Company was created. It combines the Florida Central, Jacksonville, Pensacola, and Mobile railroads. |
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1883 |
Three railroad companies are merged to form the Florida Transit and Penisular Railroad Company. Thee are: Florida Transit Railroad Co., Peninsular Railroad Co, and the Tropical Florida Railroad Co. |
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1884 |
Most railroads in Florida are passed into the hands of a single company owned and operated by a single management, under the name of The Florida Railway and Navigation Company. It has more that 500 miles of main track in operation and about 300 miles of track under construction. The longest route was the "Western Division" which ran from Tallahassee to Jacksonville - 209 miles. |
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1906 |
An attempt to drain the Everglades and convert it to farmland begins. |
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1917 |
Seminole Indians become a Florida tourist attraction. |
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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. |
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1962 |
The Seminole Tribe of Florida is organized under the 1934 US Indian Reorganization Act and recognized by the federal government. |
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1889 |
The first calculating machine is invented and uses punch cards |
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1895 |
Wireless telegraph and the "antenna" are invented but it covers a very short distance. |
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1897 |
First ship to shore message is sent using an improved form of wireless telegraph |
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1900 |
The cause of yellow fever is discovered. It is proven that the fever is spread by mosquitoes. This rallies an effort to provide better mosquito control. |
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1900 |
Freud publishes his book "The Interpretation of Dreams" |
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1901 |
First transatlantic wireless telegraph is sent. |
| 21 |
1902 |
The first Tyrannosaurus Rex fossil is discovered. |
| 22 |
1903 |
Wright Brothers complete the first successful flight with an airplane at Kitty Hawk |
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1904 |
The first vacuum tube diode is invented by Fleming |
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1906 |
Kellogg sells the first box of Corn Flakes |
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1906 |
The triode vacuum tube is invented |
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1906 |
Electrons are discovered by Thomson |
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1912 |
The unsinkable Titanic sinks on its first trip to New York drowning 1,513 people. |
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1913 |
Ford builds the first assembly line into his automobile production plant |
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1914 |
The first traffic lights (which is only red or green) are put up in America; Construction of the Panama Canal is completed |
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1923 |
Diphtheria vaccine is developed; Insulin is produced to treat diabetes |
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1923 |
Freud publishes "The Ego and the Id" |
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1924 |
Insecticides are used for the first time on crops |
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1926 |
Goddard launched the first liquid-fueled rocket |
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1927 |
The first television transmission was announced in England |
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1928 |
Big bang theory was introduced |
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1936 |
The first regular television broadcast happens in England |
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1938 |
Hahn, Strassmann, Meitner and Frisch discover nuclear fission |
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1946 |
The university of Pennsylvania develops the ENIAC computer, containing 18,000 vacuum tubes |
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1947 |
Researches at Bell Labs invent the first transistor |
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1951 |
The first color television is introduced in the U.S. |
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1952 |
The first sex-change surgery was performed to change George Jorgensen into Christine Jorgensen. |
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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. |
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1960 |
The ruby laser was created by Maiman |
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1962 |
U.S. astronaut, John Glenn, orbits the earth |
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1965 |
The first "space walk" was completed by the Soviet Union |
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1882 |
NEWS HEADLINES: Edison creates the first large power station in New York City, making it the first place in America to have electricity. |
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1885 |
NEWS HEADLINES: Eastman invents the box camera. For the first time photography becomes affordable for the average citizen. |
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1908 |
NEWS HEADLINES: Henry Ford produces the first Model T automobile |
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1912 |
White residents of Forsyth County, GA, drive the black population out. |
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1913 |
NEWS HEADLINES: Edison invents motion pictures |
| 36 |
1917 |
NEWS HEADLINES: In June, the United States enters World War I on the side of the allies. The Russian Revolution ends the reign of the czars and thrusts Russia into communism. |
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1919 |
NEWS HEADLINES: World War I ends with the signing of The Versailles Treaty. |
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1938 |
NEWS HEADLINES: Orson Wells' radio production of H.G. Well's War of the Worlds causes a national panic. |
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1939 |
NEWS HEADLINES: The first regular television broadcast happens in the United States |
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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. |
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1950 |
NEWS HEADLINES: On June 25, the Korean War begins and the United Nations officially declaring war on North Korea two days later. |
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1955 |
NEWS HEADLINES: Rosa Parks refuses to give her seat to a white man on a bus in Montgomery, AL. |
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1960 |
NEWS HEADLINES: The first birth control pill was approved and made available to the public |
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1963 |
NEWS HEADLINES: On November 22, President John F. Kennedy is assassinated in Dallas, Texas by Lee Harvey Oswald. |
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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. |
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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. |
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1909 |
The National Association for Advancement of Colored People is formed (NAACP) |
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1910 |
Boy Scout and Girl Scout Organizations are introduced in America and the concept of a "week end" meaning time off from regular work begins to take root. The British Empire covers 1/5th of the world land area. |
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1927 |
Charles Lindbergh becomes the first man to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean and Babe Ruth hits 60 home runs. |
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1929 |
Widespread prosperity of the 1920s ends abruptly with the stock market crash in October |
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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. |
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1935 |
Congress passes the Social Security Act, giving elder Americans Social Security money for the first time. |
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1939 |
Hollywood releases The Wizard of Oz, one of the first films to be made in color. |
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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. |
| 63 |
1944 |
On June 6, Allied forces invade Normandy (referred to as "D-Day") |
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1945 |
President Roosevelt dies; The United Nations is established; the first atomic bomb is dropped on Hiroshima. |
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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. |
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1962 |
The Cuban missile crisis escalates and Americans prepare for a Nuclear War with Fidel Castro in Cuba. |
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1966 |
The Black Panther party is founded. |
| 86 |
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. |
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1909 |
The "Piltdown Man" hoax -- a fake archeological discovery announced by dishonest scientists who wanted to "prove" that human beings had evolved in Europe |
| 33 |
1914 |
World War I - Following the crisis touched off by the assassination of Archduke Ferdinand of Austria in Sarajevo, Germany declared war on Russia and additional countries joined the war within several days. |
| 36 |
1917 |
Germany uses airplanes to drop bombs in the early stages of World War I -- the first major military use of airplanes. |
| 38 |
1919 |
The Versailles Treaty marks the official end of World War I. |
| 39 |
1920 |
Adolph Hitler begins to organize the Nazi party in Germany; The Ku Klux Klan launches a recruitment campaign using mass marketing techniques to gain 85,000 new recruits; the first commercial broadcast is made. |
| 57 |
1938 |
Hitler annexes Anschluss into Germany. At the Munich Conference, Germany is given a portion of Czechoslovakia. |
| 58 |
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. |
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1945 |
World War II ends with a Japanese delegation signing instrument of surrender aboard battleship Missouri in Tokyo Bay. |
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 | Mary Brown
Born on November 22, 1885 and died on October 1, 1955.
They were married 12/4/1904.
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The Children of Franklin Angus Davis Jr.
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Walter Thomas Davis
Born in Calhoun Co., Florida on October 7, 1905 and died in Blountstown, Florida on June 10, 1975. He was 69 years old.
Married Thelma Pastile "Pat" Brock on 4/14/1925 in Decatur Co. GA.
Children:
Dennis "Pete" Davis(he married Marian)
Martha Faye Davis(she married Angus Napoleon Griffin) ...
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Samuel Lindsey Davis
Born in Calhoun Co., Florida on October 23, 1907 and died in Blountstown, Florida on February 20, 1972. He was 64 years old.
He married Susie Irene McKoewn (1/20/1910 to 8/5/1969).
Child: Judy ...
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31 years old
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Mary Lucille Davis
Born in Calhoun Co., Florida on September 20, 1914 and died in Blountstown, Florida on January 6, 2001. She was 86 years old.
She was a supervisor of elections for Calhoun Co. FL . A member of the Eastern Star Chapter 179 and Christian Home Freewill Baptist Church.
children:
James Franklin "Jimmy" Aultman
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68 years old
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Falfa Davis
Born in Blountstown, Calhoun Co., Florida on July 13, 1917 and died in Blountstown, Florida on April 19, 2008. She was 90 years old.
In 1936, she married Selmon Edgar Clark (11/3/1903 to 11/29/1970).
They had two children:
Glenda Clark
Charles Edward "Sonny" Clark
Falfa was a member of Christian Home Freewill Bap...
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23 years old
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Charles Ellis Davis
Born in Blountstown, Florida on March 14, 1922 and died in Blountstown, Florida on May 26, 1999. He was 77 years old.
Married Margie Pearl Fowler(10/23/1923).
Children:
Jeffery A. Davis
Charles Ellis Davis Jr.
Mary Frank Davis
Frederick Angelo Davis ...
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