Earl L. Davis

1898 - 1944  (45 years)

• Gender	Male
  Occupation	Cutter Man (1925), Paper Maker (1926), Laborer At Wheat Paper; Ctr At Allied Paper Mills(1942-43)
  Death Notice	Kalamazoo Gazette, February 14, 1944, p. 9, col. 1 Earl Davis, Long Lake, Dies at 45 Earl Davis , of Route 5, Long lake died at 7 this morning at Borgess hospital following a five weeks illness. He was born Sept. 10, 1898 in Koscuisko County, Indiana, and was the son of Melvin and Hattie Davis. He had made his home in Kalamazoo for the last 15 years, and had been employed as cutter-man at the Monarch Paper mill. Survivors are his wife, Mable Swinhart Davis; two sons, Marion F. of Elkhart, Ind. and Claude E. Davis of Kalamazoo; his mother, Mrs. Hatite Davis, Syracuse, Ind. one siter, Mrs. Viola McKinley, Denver, Colo; two brothers, Charles Davis of Kalamazoo and Claude Davis of Bourbon, Ind; and five grandchildren.  [1]
  Residence(s)	1900: Tippecanoe twp., Kosciusko Co., Indiana 1910: Boston St., Syracuse, Turkey Creek twp., Kosciusko Co., Indiana 1918: 401 Middlebury St, Elkhart, Elkhart Co., Indiana 1920: 401-1/2 Middleburg st., Elkart , Elkhart Co., Indiana 1921: 423 Charles St., Elkhart, IN 1925: Elkhart, IN 1926: 2009 S. Burdick, Kalamazoo, MI 1930: 2017 S. Burdick St., Kalamazoo, MI 1935: 526 Vernon, Kalamazoo 1937: not in Kalamazoo 1939-1943: RD 6, Kalamazoo, Long Lake, MI 1945: not in Kalamazoo  [2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9]
  Birth	10 September 1898	Koscuisko Co., Indiana   [4, 10]
  Death	14 February 1944	Kalamazoo, Kalamazoo Co., Michigan, USA   [10]
  	book 1, p 109
  Burial	17 February 1944	Elkhart, Elkhart Co., Indiana, USA   [11]
  Headstones	Submit Headstone Photo
  Person ID	I8997	Angus Saline's Genealogy
  Last Modified	10 August 2012

  
  

  Father	Zoro Melvin L. Davis           b. 19 May 1872, Benton Twp., Elkhart Co., Indiana, USA           d. 9 August 1935, Elkhart, Elkhart Co., Indiana, USA (Age 63 years)
  Mother	Hattie Popenfoose           b. May 1879, Germany
  Marriage	15 February 1896	Kosciusko Co., Indiana   [12]
  Divorce	10 November 1916	Kosciusko Co., Indiana   [13]
  	Box 421, Case 13537
  Wedding Details	Married by J. Stillman, minister
  Family ID	F6302	Family Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family/Spouse 1	Lula May Gilbert           b. 28 December 1897, Kosciusko Co., Indiana           d. 14 February 1972, Elkhart, Elkhart Co., Indiana, USA (Age 74 years)
  Marriage	about 1915  [7]
  Divorce	May 1923  [14]
  Children	+ 1. Claude Edward Davis           b. 10 March 1919, Elkhart, Elkhart Co., Indiana, USA           d. 8 October 1965, Kalamazoo Co., Michigan, USA (Age 46 years)   2. Marion F. Davis           b. 4 July 1917, Indiana, USA           d. 5 July 1960 (Age 43 years)
  Family ID	F6260	Family Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family/Spouse 2	Mabel R. Swinehart           b. about 1906, Indiana, USA
  Marriage	21 February 1925	St. Joseph, Berrien Co., Michigan, USA   [6]
  Family ID	F6375	Family Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Notes

  Elkhart Truth, June 10, 1922, p 2 BICYCLE STOLEN Earl Davis of 601 West Marion street reported the theft of his Dayton bicycle last evening, from the east side of Main street between Marion and Harrison streets.

  
  

• Sources

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