Genealogy for
Mary Layura Davis
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Mary Layura Davis
1/27/1893 - 1/30/1972
(Shown at age 22)
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Mary Layura Davis was born on January 27, 1893 in Blountstown, Florida and died on January 30, 1972 in Blountstown, Florida. She lived to be 79 years old.
Married 12/26/1909 in Blountstown, FL. Burial at Nettle Ridge Cemetery in Blountstown, FL. | 
 | Census | 6/1/1900 | Hansfords Mill FL (Calhoun County) | 7 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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| Census | 4/15/1910 | Blountstown FL (Calhoun County) | 17 yrs old | | Recorded as family #9: Busby Bailey (age 21) and Mary (wife, age 18). Both were born in Florida as were their parents. Busby is a laborer working at the Saw Mill. Both he and Mary can read and write. |
| Census | 2/4/1920 | Blountstown FL (Calhoun County) | 27 yrs old | | Listed as family #462: Busby Bailey (age 31), Mary (wife, age 25), John F. (son, age 10), Davis (son, age 8), B. M. (son, age 5), Dell (son, age 3), Dorine (daughter, age 9 months). All were born in Florida as were their parents. The two oldest boys attended school during the past year and both Busby and Mary can read and write. Busby is employed as a sawyer at a Saw Mill. |
| Census | 1/1/1940 | Bloutstown FL (Calhoun County) | 46 yrs old | | #36 - Busby Bailey (age 51),
Mary Bailey (46),
Brinson Bailey (18),
Ruth L. Bailey (14),
Robert L. Bailey (14),
Margaret Bailey (12). All were born in FL. Busby works as a logger for the mill. School grade completed: Busby- 3rd , Mary-7th , Brinson - 9th, Ruth - 7th, Robert -7th and Margaret - 6th., Residence in 1935: North Pear St.,Blountstown, Calhoun Co., Florida. They own their home, valued at $4,500.
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| Census | 1/1/1945 | Precinct 1 FL (Calhoun County) | 51 yrs old | page 26 - B. Bailey (57), Mary (51), Robert (20) & Margaret (17). Busby & Mary have a 8th gr., Robert an 11 th gr. & Margaret a 12th gr. education. Busby is a farmer. All were born in FL.  |
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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. |
| 69 |
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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| 2 |
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. |
| 7 |
1900 |
Freud publishes his book "The Interpretation of Dreams" |
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1901 |
First transatlantic wireless telegraph is sent. |
| 9 |
1902 |
The first Tyrannosaurus Rex fossil is discovered. |
| 10 |
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 |
The triode vacuum tube is invented |
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1906 |
Electrons are discovered by Thomson |
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1906 |
Kellogg sells the first box of Corn Flakes |
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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 |
Freud publishes "The Ego and the Id" |
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1923 |
Diphtheria vaccine is developed; Insulin is produced to treat diabetes |
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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 |
| 72 |
1965 |
The first "space walk" was completed by the Soviet Union |
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1971 |
The first unmanned spacecraft hit Mars and was launched by the Soviet Union |
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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 |
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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 |
| 37 |
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. |
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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. |
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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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1971 |
Charles Manson is found guilt of murder. |
| 79 |
1972 |
Break-in at the Democratic headquarters sets of the Watergate Scandal. |
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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 |
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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. |
| 24 |
1917 |
Germany uses airplanes to drop bombs in the early stages of World War I -- the first major military use of airplanes. |
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1919 |
The Versailles Treaty marks the official end of World War I. |
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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. |
| 45 |
1938 |
Hitler annexes Anschluss into Germany. At the Munich Conference, Germany is given a portion of Czechoslovakia. |
| 46 |
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. |
| 52 |
1945 |
World War II ends with a Japanese delegation signing instrument of surrender aboard battleship Missouri in Tokyo Bay. |
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 | Busby Bailey
Born on January 6, 1889 and died on September 27, 1965.
They were married 12/26/1909.
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The Children of Mary Layura Davis
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63 years old
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John Franklin Bailey
Born in Blountstown, Florida on October 27, 1910 and died in Blountstown, Florida on May 18, 1987. He was 76 years old.
Married Wilma Gartlin. They have nine children:
- Frankie Nell
- Charles Busby (3/16/1936-9/14/2000) married Betty Jean Brown
- Elizabeth Ann (1/17/1939-4/13/1980) married T...
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40 years old
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James Morgan Bailey
Born in Blountstown, Florida on August 16, 1912 and died in Brooksville, Florida on February 1, 1974. He was 61 years old.
Married Addie Mae Messer, 2nd wife Beulah Alderman...
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58 years old
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B.M. Bailey
Born in Blountstown, Florida on March 16, 1915 and died in Calhoun County, Florida on September 13, 1983. He was 68 years old.
Eron and B.M. Bailey had six children:
Dorothy Jean
James Ellis
William Aaron (Rabbit)
B.M. Jr. (Sonny)married Audrey Jemison
Joe Mike
Barbara Jo
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George Dell Bailey
Born in Blountstown, Florida on May 16, 1917 and died in Blountstown, Florida on June 10, 1970. He was 53 years old.
Children:
Burns O'Dell Bailey (8/1/1939-3/4/1968)
Laura Davene Bailey
Royce Wayne Bailey (1945) ...
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Dorene Bailey
Born in Blountstown, Florida on May 16, 1919 and died in Quincy, Florida on February 3, 2006. She was 86 years old.
Married Charlie D. Spears. She was a member of First Baptist Church in Havana. Two Childern: Patricia and Mary Frances....
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Mary Brinson Bailey
Born in Blountstown, Florida on July 21, 1921 and died in Blountstown, Florida on April 19, 2004. She was 82 years old.
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Charles Ellis Bailey
Born in Blountstown, Florida on October 24, 1924 and died somewhere in Florida about 1925. This child lived to be about 2 months old.
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Robert Lee Bailey
Born in Calhoun County, Florida on June 24, 1925 and died somewhere in Florida on February 2, 1975. He was 49 years old.
He married Jewell Nichols and later married Dorothy Lee Middleton (12/15/1929 - 1/30/1984)
Children:
Larry
Doris...
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Ruth L. Bailey
Born in Blountstown, Florida on June 24, 1925 and died in Port St. Joe, Florida on January 12, 1968. She was 42 years old.
Married Grady Henry Keel He was born (10-15-1915) in Jackson Co. FL. His parents where George and Viola "Ola" Phillips Keels....
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12 years old
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Margaret Ellen Bailey
Born in Blountstown, Florida on November 25, 1927 and died in Panama City, Florida on January 4, 2003. She was 75 years old.
Married David F. Black (9/19/1928 - 9/25/1972)and they had one daughter, Lyndia D. Black.
Second marriage to Marvin Oscar Freeman married on 6/15/1951.
Children:
Erma L.
Martha...
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