NOTES:
Name of father Felix Riley Davis
Maiden name of mother Mary Elizabeth Berry
1880 NE CENSUS Leicester Davis (6y, b Nebraska) enumerated with parents F.R. (36y, b Virginia, occupation UPRR conductor) and Mary (38y, b Ohio) and 3 siblings, Freddie (8y, b Ohio), Roy (4y, b Nebraska) and Bessie (2y, b Nebraska)
MARRIAGE Lester B. Davis, over 21 and Georgia Fisher, over 18 m 25 June 1898 at house of and by Geo W. Grannis, MG. Aff: B.F. West. Wit: Mrs Gertrude West and B.F. West
1910 OR CENSUS - Lester B. Davis, age 36, occupation newspaper reporter, b. Nebraska, is enumerated with his wife of 11 years, Georgie, age 31, mother of 1 child, occupation dressmaker, b. Nebraska, along with their daughter, Lolita B., age 9, b. Oregon. Also enumerated in the home are Felix R. Davis, age 65, widowed, identified as father [of Lester] occupation farm laborer, b. Virginia, and Sarah A. Fisher, age 60, identified as mother-in-law [of Lester], b. Indiana.
WWI Draft Registration Card Lester Burnette Davis, 45, of 523 N Cottage, Salem; b 15 July 1873; occupation clerk; person who knows address Georgia Grace Davis, 523 N Cottage, Salem
1920 OR CENSUS Lester B. Davis (45y, b Nebraska, occupation treasurer) enumerated with wife Georgia G. (40y, b Nebraska) and daughter Lolita B. (19y, b Oregon)
1930 OR CENSUS Lester B. Davis (56y, b Nebraska, married at age 25y, occupation statistician) enumerated with wife Georgia G. (50y, b Nebraska, married at age 20y)
1940 OR CENSUS Lester B. Davis (66y, b Nebraska) enumerated with wife Georgia G. (61y, b Nebraska, occupation seamstress); family was living in same house in 1935
MILITARY - Oregon Volunteers, Spanish American War and Philippine Insurrection: Lester B. Davis, 2nd Regiment, Company M., Pvt.
DISCREPANCY DC gives birth year as 1874 but WWI draft card and census suggest 1873 is correct
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