I know very little about the Davis family other than my great grandfather William Ervin Davis. He married Olive Linda Coulter and they had several children, including my grandmother - -Samantha Lynn Davis (Sherman). As far as I know, all of their children were born in Mississippi, but Mimi (my grandmother) said that her father and her mother had problems when she was little and her father left. I'll have have to ask her again exactly where he went, but he left the state as far as I know. She doesn't know who her Davis grandparents were because she had so little contact with her father. If you find a connection of any sort with Davis' in your family going to Covington County or Jones County, MS please let me know. As I'm sure you have discovered, the Davis name is very difficult to trace because there are so many branches. But I'm still looking and I will let you know what I find out. I've discovered that my grandmother remembers things in a rather piecy manner - she relayed tons of information the day we all went to Covington County and back to cemetaries and things she hadn't visited since she was a little girl. That trip gave her memory quite a jog and now I'm able to connect things a lot better. Maybe that's all I'll need to do with her on the Davis name. Thanks for contacting me and I'll contact you when I've traced a little more. It's possible there is a Northern connection (I know she had an uncle who moved to Boston when she was very young, and I think he was a Davis uncle. So, some of the family had some kind of Northern element or connection to them).

Casey Allison Crumby