Photo is of Elvin Davis graciously provided by Mr. Boyce W Davis of Prescott, AZ. Photo of Charles or Ada Davis was not available. William Elvin Davis is their son.

Children of Charles B Davis and Ada Mozell Haygood Davis.
Charles B Davis was born 17 Jul 1871, the son of James P Davis and Fannie C Kimbrell. Charles B Davis died 16 April 1938 at Post, Texas.  He married Ada Mozell Haygood who was born 4 April 1874 and died in 1961, somewhere in Arizona.

They had five children: William Elvin Davis born 11 Jul 1897 in Navarro County, Tx and died on 17 Mar 1962 in Corsicana, Tx.  He married Lorene Bobbit Davis who was born on 4 Oct 1910 in Van Zandt County, Tx.  She died 31 Jan 1953 in Tyler, Tx.   They had three children: Jessie Charles Davis, born 7 Sep 1931 at Ben Wheeler, Tx; Van Zandt, County. Euretta Jean Davis, born 21 Apr 1937 at Ben Wheeler, Tx, Van Zandt, County, and died 31 Aug 1991 in Navarro County, Tx.  She is buried in Hamilton Cemetary near Corsicana, Tx. Joyce Anel Davis, born 2 Nov 1933 at Ben Wheeler, Tx, Van Zandt, County. Ora B Davis was born in April of 1899 in Navarro County, Tx.  She died at Post, Tx. Homer L Davis was born in 1902 in Navarro County, Tx. Eddie E Davis was born in 1904 in Navarro County, Tx and died in 1958 in Hawthorne, Ca. Viola Davis was born in 1908 in Navarro County, Tx .

Mrs. Autumn Cox from Corsicana, Texas had information on Charles B Davis that follows:

Charlie met and married Ada Mozell Haygood.  they had five children.  they stayed in Navarro County, Texas near Corsicana and farmed.  Sometime around 1920 they lost the family farm due to a bank foreclosure.  They had borrowed money to make a crop and bad weather ruined the crop.  They could not meet the small bank loan and lost the farm.  They had lived in either PCT.1 or PCT.6 according to the 1900 and 1910 federal census.  Charlie moved his entire family to Garza County near Post, Texas around 1924.  they had heard about the big farms-mostly cotton in West Texas.  They never did recover from losing the farm or the move.  Charlie died there in April 1938.  Ada lived until 1961 and died enroute to California to live with Viola, she was 87 years old.  William Elvin Davis was their oldest son.  He was born 11 Jul 1897.  Elvin helped his daddy farm and also hired out as a farm laborer.  the whole family worked as farm laborers, mostly picking and planting cotton.  This is where my father Elvin Davis met my mother, Lorene Bobbit.  they were married at Post Texas in December 1927.

Sometime around 1928 or 1929 they moved to Ben Wheeler, Texas, Van Zandt County.  This was the home of my grandparents, Jess and Ella Bobbit.  They had also been in Post.  Ben Wheeler, Texas is where Lorenne was born.  All three of Elvin and Lorenne's children were born there also.  Charles 9/7/31, Joyce 11/2/33, and Euretta 4/21/37.  These were the years of the great depression and times were very very hard.  Elvin share cropped and worked for other farmers.  The pay was only one dollar a day when you could find work.  Often times there was just not any work at any price and the best you could do was trade your labor for something to eat.  Perhaps help someone kill hogs for some backbones, or maybe a basket of potatoes or turnips.

Lorenne had a wood stove for cooking and a kerosene lamp to see at night.  The water was drawn from a well with a bucket and rope.  The toilet was an out house out back of where you lived.  During the 1940s WW2 began.  In 43 Elvin went to Corsicana, Texas and got a job in a defense plant.  Things began to look better.  Lorene went to work in a local laundry.  Between the two of them they made about sixty dollars per week.  That was more money than they had seen before in their lives.  However, they had both ruined their health in previous years and both died before their times.  Lorenne when she was 42 in 1953 and Elvin when he was 64 in 1962.


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