Stanley Davis, 1933
Stanley and Marian Davis
Ancestor records of Stanley Percival Davis, my maternal grandfather, are listed including biographies, family histories, descendant reports, marriage records, newspaper articles, oath of allegiance, and obituaries. At the bottom of the page is the Stanley Davis family tree; if clicked, a larger image will open.
My grandfather was born on August 1, 1915, in Scales Mound, Jo Daviess County, Illinois, to Percy and Viola (Bausman) Davis. He married twice. At 18, he married Cleone O’Neil. She died in 1940, leaving him with two young children. In 1941, he married my grandmother, Marian Bohnsack, and they had two girls. He died on August 30, 2005, at the Elizabeth Nursing Home in Elizabeth, Illinois.
I’m always looking for family obituaries, photos, records, so if you have something of interest, please share! I don’t have everything on this blog. A lot of my information is on Ancestry (see Lightcap-Davis Tree). I have family pictures and cemetery photos on Flickr. I’ve put lineage information on WeRelate.
Family History and Genealogy Records
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- Percy Davis, Public Sale (21 Dec 1939, Guilford Twp, Illinois)
Biographies
- Nicholas Bausman Sr, from Portrait and Biographical Album of Jo Daviess and Carroll Counties, Illinois (1889)
- Philip Bausman, from The History of Jo Daviess County (1878)
- Alfred Hicks, from The History of the Yakima Valley, Washington, comprising Yakima, Kittitas and Benton Counties (1919)
- William Passmore, from Portrait and Biographical Album of Jo Daviess and Carroll Counties, Illinois (1889)
Cemeteries
- Scales Mound Township Cemetery, aka Citizen’s Cemetery, Scales Mound, Jo Daviess, Illinoi
- Singer Catholic Cemetery, Guilford Twp, Jo Daviess, Illinois
Family Charts, Histories and Descendant Reports
- Nicholas and Mary (Casper) Bausman Descendants (as of Dec 2011)
- Davis-Blewett Family History by Alvin Davis Jr (Alvin’s widow gave this info to my grandfather in the ’80s) *
- Jacob and Elizabeth (Vivian) Davies Family Chart (as of Oct 2011)
- Jacob and Christina (Casper) Hess Family History by Elmer William Hess (1972)
- Henry and Hester Jane (Ingram) Hicks Family Chart (as of Oct 2011)
Funeral Cards
- Gladys Cecelia (Ray) Davis (died 24 Oct 1917)
Marriage Records
- Nicholas Bausman and Catherine Hebenstreit (Shullsburg, Lafayette Co, WI, 21 Jan 1886)
- Percy Davis and Viola Bausman (Stephenson Co, IL, 17 Jul 1913)
Newspaper Articles
- Hazel Bausman, inquest results/coroner’s jury (citation unknown)
- Hazel Bausman, killed in car accident (Rockford Republic, 21 Nov 1929)
- John B Davis, inquest results/obituary (Galena Daily Gazette, 10 Apr 1913)
- William Davis, inquest results (Galena Weekly Gazette, 28 Sep 1883)
Oath of Allegiance
- Valentine Schoenhard (New York, New York, 25 Oct 1853)
Obituaries
Photographs
- Viola (Bausman) Davis Hickman, unidentified photos
- Lester Schoenhard relatives?
Wedding Announcements
- Marian Bohnsack and Stanley Davis (Freeport Journal-Standard, 08 Aug 1941)
- Marian Bohnsack and Stanley Davis (citation unknown, 1941)
* This correction to Alvin Davis Jr’s Davis-Blewett Family History was posted to my Ancestry.com account by Kathy (Ciambella) Brison: “My mother, Marjorie Christine (Berkey) Dickey Ciambella, was born in Dewar, OK on July 28, 1929, not July 29, 1927. Her brother Bill was Billie Fred Berkey, not Billie Joe. Billy Joe is their sister Anna Mae (Berkey) Foster’s second son. I believe the name “Fred” was in honor of their uncle, Fred Anderson, husband of Nell (Davis) Anderson [see page 11].”
Stanley Davis Family Tree (as of Aug 2011)
