Life History

Notes

• Mayo Wheeler Davis
  Birth 21 Jan 1883, Male
  Place of Birth 213 W Springfield
  Father Mayo V Davis, clerk, born Providence RI
  Mother Eva M, born Wilmington VT
  City of Boston Births, Record #68
  
  Mayo married Bessie Harkins some time before September 1918, probably earlier that year.  She was born in November 1891, so in September 1918 she would have been 27 years old.
  
  U.S., World War I Draft Registration Cards, 1917-1918
  Mayo Wheeler Davis
  Residence Nowata Delaware, County, Oklahoma
  Birth Date 21 Jan 1882
  Pipe Line Superintendent, Empire Pipe LIne Co, Delaware, Oklahoma
  Nearest Relative Bessie Davis, Delaware, Oklahoma
  Medium Height & Build, Brown Eyes, Black Hair
  Registered 12 September 1918 Nowata, Nowata, Oklahoma
  
  Note that in this 1918 draft registration, Mayo reported his birth date as 21 Jan 1882, whle the birth record is actually dated in 1883.
  
  1920 Federal Census, Nowata County, Oklahoma, 21 February, Lenapah Township, District 66, page 8B, Hse #176, Fam #177
  Davis, Mayo W Head Rents F W 38 Married MS RI NH Pipe Line Supt [b abt 1881]
  Davis, Bessie D A Wife F W 28 Married IL England Ohio [b abt 1891]
  Davis, Yeary M Son M W 15 Single KS GA IL  [b abt 1904]
  Davis, Albert W Son M W 13 Married IN IN IN [b abt 1906]
  Harkins, John D Son M W 22 Boarder KS OH OH [Should be GA IL] Laborer, Oil Fields [b abt 1897]
  Harkins, Francis [Frances] 18 Boarder [wife of John D] F W GA IN IN [b abt Nov 1901]
  
  From the ages of Mayo and Bessie's chidlren, we can estimate they married about 1902 or 1903.  They divorced before 1930.  IN that year, Bessie was in Michigan, workingin a car factory in Detroit.  She went on to San Diego, whre other members of her family had mvod, and in 1931 she married again.
  
  Mayo was in the service at Camp Bliss in Shreveport, Louisiana.
  
  U.S., World War II Draft Registration Cards, 1942
  Mayo Wheeler Davis
  Age 50, Birth 21 Jan 1882 Boston, Mass (Birth record says 1883 in Providence RI)
  Residence Greenwood Rd, (Camp Bliss), Shreveport, Louisiana
  Mailing Address Rt 2, Box 256, DeRidder, Louisiana
  Contact Mrs J E Richardson, Rt 5, Box 298, Shreveport, LA
  Unemployed
  (back)
  5'6" 172 lbs, Hazel Eyes, Gray-Black Hair, Sallow Complexion
  Registered 27 April 1942 Caddo Parish, Lousiiana

Sources

• 1. 1920 Federal Census, Nowata County, Oklahoma
  • 21 February, Lenapah Township, District 66, page 8B, Hse #176, Fam #177
• 2. Massachusetts, Birth Records, 1840-1915
• 3. U.S., World War II Draft Registration Cards, 1942
• 4. San Diego City Marriage Record
• 5. U.S., Social Security Death Index, 1935-2014
• 6. Find a Grave Memorial Registry