Verda Lee Davis

1885 -

• Name	Verda Lee Davis  [1, 2]
  Born	28 Oct 1885	Macon County, Illinois, USA   [1, 2]
  Gender	Female
  Census	6 Jan 1920	327 Walnut St., Maroa, Macon County, Illinois, USA   [3]
  	1. Griffin, James W., head, owns, free of mortgage, male, white, 45, married, can read and write, Kentucky, Kentucky, Kentucky, cigar packer, cigar factory 2. _____, Virda [Verda?], wife, female, white, 24, married, can read and write, Illinois, Illinois, Illinois
  Parents	Parents named in her birth record as "Charles W. Davis" and "Ida Pratt Davis."  [2]
  Person ID	I200	Gilmore-Donald
  Last Modified	7 Nov 2014

  
  

  Father	Charles Davis,   b. Mar 1862, Illinois, USA
  Mother	Ida M. Pratt,   b. Jan 1865, Illinois, USA
  Married	Abt 12 Feb 1883	Macon County, Illinois, USA   [1, 4]
  	Date is probably issue of license, not necessarily of marriage.
  Family ID	F63	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	James W. Griffin,   b. Abt 1875, Kentucky, USAa ,   d. After 1920  (Age ~ 46 years)
  Married	Before 1920  [3, 5]
  Last Modified	7 Nov 2014
  Family ID	F66	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Sources

  [S138] 1900 U.S. census, Macon County, Illinois, population schedule, Maroa township, Maroa, enumeration district (ED) 61, sheet 11B, p 37 (stamped, verso), dwelling 235, family 236, Charles Davis household; digital images, Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com : downloaded 4 November 2014); citing NARA microfilm publication T623, roll 324. [S148] “Illinois Births and Christenings, 1824-1940,” database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org : accessed 7 November 2014), entry for Verda Lee Davis, birth, 28 October 1885, Macon County; FHL film no. 983,930; citing Macon County clerk, Decatur. URL: https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:V2LQ-YM3. [S150] 1920 U.S. census, Macon County, Illinois, population schedule, Maroa township, Maroa, enumeration district (ED) 157, sheet 6B (penned), p. 189 (stamped, verso), dwelling 146, family 153, James W. Griffin household; digital images, Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com : downloaded 8 November 2014); citing NARA microfilm publication T625, roll 385. [S140] Illinois Secretary of State, "Illinois Statewide Marriage Index, 1763-1900," database, Illinois State Archives (http://www.cyberdriveillinois.com/departments/archives/archives.html : accessed 8 November 2014), entry for Charles Davis-Ida M. Pratt, Macon County, 12 February 1883; [no book or page number cited]. . [S146] SBIRD, contributor, "Frank O. Davis," database anddigital image of marker, Fairlawn Cemetery (Decatur, Macon County, Illinois), memorial no. 46707570, FindAGrave (http://www.findagrave.com/ : viewed 6 November 2014). Entry also offers an obituary transcribed from the Decatur Evening Herald, 11 July 1927.