Viola Irene Davis

Viola Irene was born in 1878.¹   Viola Irene's father was David Columbus Davis and her mother was Mary Maude Messer.  Her paternal grandfather was Henry P. Davis and her paternal grandmother is Mary Rebecca Edinburgh. She had a brother and a sister, named Robert Pinkland and Mary Maude.  She was the second oldest of the three children. She had seven half-brothers and two half-sisters, named William Edward, David Lillard, Milton Homer, Jessie Columbus, Mossie Fuller, Alvin Miller, George Dewey, Bertha May and Dona Lee.  She died at the age of 29 in 1907.¹