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Virginia source notes

For photos and source notes on the three Davis family-related properties (Vernon Mills, Runnymeade, and Glenara), click here.

Miscellaneous notes on the Davis family

Obituaries and other genealogical data on the Davis family

Davis family genealogical data from Jackie Patterson

Davis family on the 1880 and 1900 U.S. census

James G. Smith vs. Smith chancery suit that pitted Johnny’s mother against her siblings over his grandmother’s estate, held by Fauquier County Heritage and Preservation Foundation

Notes on the shooting of Leonidas Triplett by Arthur Davies at Orlean, December 11, 1881

Wallace Phillips typescript on the Leonidas Triplett shooting, 1978, held by Fauquier County Heritage and Preservation Foundation

Notes on the Triplett family, held by Fauquier County Heritage and Preservation Foundation

Notes on Johnny's cousin Elmo Davis, who worked as superintendent of the Reco mine

Notes on Johnny's uncle L. Morgan Davis and family

L. Morgan Davis letter to George Davis, 1902

L. Morgan Davis obituary, Alexandria Gazette, 13 Jun 1917

Notes on Johnny's brothers visiting the Slocan

Johnny's cousin, John Barton Payne, 27th United States Secretary of the Interior

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Barton_Payne

Letters from Davis family concerning the Reco mine, 1950s and 1960s, courtesy Dan Davis

Fauquier County Heritage and Preservation Foundation newsletter, 2012, concerning Johnny's niece, Golda Davis Pollock

Postcard from Johnny's niece Golda sent to him at Christmas 1907.

 

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