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Alison Katherine Davis Born August 1, 1940 in Pasadena, California Married Jonathan Tibbitts, Jr. on June 24, 1961 |
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The daughter of a naval officer, Alison spent her childhood
and teen years crisscrossing the country. She met Jonathan in Port Hueneme, California, in 1960
and married him the following year. The couple moved to San Francisco, where she completed her
degree at San Francisco State, and then to Key West, Florida, and Naples, Italy, before returning to Southern
California with their two sons. They currently live in San Diego, where she is very active
in the community and has written children's biographies of James K. Polk and John Paul Jones. |
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James Robert Davis Born August 13, 1912 in Providence, Rhode Island Married Helen McLaughlin on June 24, 1939 |
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| Jim spent his childhood in Providence and Ireland before
attending the United States Naval Academy, where he graduated in 1934. He spent two years at
sea before transferring to the Navy's Civil Engineer Corps, and met Helen shortly thereafter.
They married in 1939 and raised four children. In 1940 he was assigned to the Philippines, and had been there eighteen months when war broke out. During the seige of Corregidor, he and a small force of men were able to maintain electrical power on the island fortress for four months, stalling the Japanese advance and helping prevent an invasion of Australia. He was captured at Cebu in early 1942 and sent to the Shinagawa Hospital Camp, where he served as POW adminstrator and observed the firebombing of Tokyo. He was later transferred to Omori, among the most notorious of the Japanese prison camps, before being released at the end of the war. He had been a prisoner for more than three years. The above photo of Jim was taken at Shinagawa. Upon his return he was stationed in California, Virginia, Seattle and Washington, D.C., and was promoted to rear admiral in 1959. Transferred to Pearl Harbor in 1963, he directed all naval construction in the Pacific, including the vast buildup for the Vietnam War. He retired in 1966 and returned to San Diego, where he served four years as director of public works for the Port Authority. Jim passed away in 1993, and Helen, our beloved Tutu, died in early 2001.  |
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Thomas Francis Davis Born April 8, 1888 in Providence, Rhode Island Married Alice Hand on November 15, 1911 |
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| Tom spent his entire life in Providence. It was there
that he met and married Alice, an immigrant who had come to Rhode Island from Ballybay, Ireland,
in about 1903. A construction foreman, he was involved in a serious accident in 1915 that left
him with a ruptured spleen. During his year-long recuperation he contracted tuberculosis, and
died in 1916. He left behind Alice and their three children, the youngest only two months old. After Tom's death, Alice ran a boarding house to support her family. She returned to Ireland in 1922 but stayed only one year. She later served as the head of Gov. San Souci's household staff, and during World War II worked in a steel foundry. She passed away in 1969.  and daughter Mary - c. 1920 |
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James Robert Davis Born about May 1, 1850 in St. John's, Newfoundland, Canada Married Mary Daily on June 25, 1882 |
| James was born in Canada but moved to Rhode Island in 1864. He became a sailor and spent most of the next fourteen years travelling the globe. He visited exotic ports such as China and Alaska, surviving a shipwreck in the process. He then returned to Providence, where he soon met and married Mary. They would have two sons before Mary's death at age 34. In Providence James became a fireman, and was later captain of the department's Hook and Ladder Company #5. He died in early 1905 of pneumonia, developed while recovering from surgery for gallstones. |
Robert Francis Davis Born about 1820 Married Eliza Dalton before 1850 |
| Robert and Eliza settled in St. John's, Newfoundland, Canada, sometime before 1850. They most likely were immigrants from England, Ireland or Wales. |
    
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