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 (published)

• Nicholas Bausman Sr, 1823-1907, from Portrait and Biographical Album of Jo Daviess and Carroll Counties, Illinois (1889)
• Philip Bausman, 1817-1878, from The History of Jo Daviess County (1878)
• Alfred Hicks, 1866-1927, from The History of the Yakima Valley, Washington, comprising Yakima, Kittitas and Benton Counties (1919)
• William Passmore, 1822-1903, from Portrait and Biographical Album of Jo Daviess and Carroll Counties, Illinois (1889)

Cards, Announcements and Funeral (Formal)

• Funeral Card: Gladys Cecelia (Ray) Davis (died 24 Oct 1917)
• Marriage Announcement: Viola Bausman and Percy Davis (married 07 Jul 1913)

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 David Mayo Davis (David’s widow Loretta gave this info to my mother and grandmother in the 2000’s) *
  
• 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)

Letters & Speeches

• Viola Bausman Commencement Speech, The Tercentennial of Henry Hudson (12 Jun 1912)
• George Davies letter to his nephew Jacob Davis III (written 15 Jun 1868)

Marriage and Wedding Announcements

• Viola Bausman and Percival Davis (citation unknown, 1913)
• Marian Bohnsack and Stanley Davis (Freeport Journal-Standard, 08 Aug 1941)
• Marian Bohnsack and Stanley Davis (citation unknown, 1941)

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 Helena Bausman Inquest Results and Coroner’s Jury (citation unknown, Nov 1919)
• Hazel Helena Bausman Killed in Car Accident (Rockford Republic, 21 Nov 1929)
• Lee Lincoln Bausman and Henry Harms Die of Injuries killed in car/train accident (citation unknown, Nov 1919)
• Lee Lincoln Bausman and Henry Harms Killed in Wreck (citation unknown, Nov 1919)
• Lee Lincoln Bausman Funeral (citation unknown, Nov 1919)
• John B Davis Inquest Results and Obituary (Galena Daily Gazette, 10 Apr 1913)
• William Davis Inquest Results (Galena Weekly Gazette, 28 Sep 1883)
• Iva (Bausman) Leverton Killed in Car Accident (citation unknown, 1958)
• Loretta (Cherry) O’Neil Boyle family (citation unknown, about 1932)

Oath of Allegiance

• Valentine Schoenhard (New York, New York, 25 Oct 1853)

Obituaries and Burial Locations

Photographs

• Bausman Brothers
• Lavelle and Lawrence Bausman
• Viola (Bausman) Davis Hickman, unidentified photos
• Lester Schoenhard relatives?
• Scales Mound High School, Class of 1933 (Scales Mound, Illinois)

* 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].”