Ancestry of Miles Davis

compiled by William Addams Reitwiesner


The following material on the immediate ancestry of Miles Davis should not be considered either exhaustive or authoritative, but rather as a first draft.





William Addams Reitwiesner

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Ancestry of Miles Davis
1 Miles Dewey Davis III, b. Alton, Ill., 26 May 1926, d. Santa Monica, Cal., 28 Sept. 1991
PARENTS
2 Miles Dewey Davis, dentist, b. Noble's Lake, Ark., 1 March 1900, d. ... 1962
m. ... 16 June 1924
3 Cleota Henry, b. ... , Ark., ... 1900 d. ...
GRANDPARENTS
4 Miles Dewey Davis, b. ... , Ga., ... Aug. 1870, d. ...
m. ... [ca. 1892]
5 Mary Luster, b. ... , Ark., ... Jan. 1871, d. ...
6 ... Henry, b. ... , d. ...
m.
7 ... , b. ... , d. ...
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EXTRACTS from the U.S. FEDERAL DECENNIAL CENSUS







1910 Arkansas, Jefferson Co., Richland, 

Davis Miles         H        M B 39      M 18         GA GA GA     Farmer    Farming
      Mary          W        F B 38      M 18 10 9    AR VA VA
      Napoleon      S        M B 16      S            AR GA AR
      Chris         D        F B 13      S            AR GA AR
      Miles Dewey   S        M B 12      S            AR GA AR
      Ferd          S        M B 10                   AR GA AR
      Oliver        S        M B  8                   AR GA AR
      Willie        S        M B  5                   AR GA AR
      Mary          D        F B  4                   AR GA AR
      Lenord        S        M B  1 3/12              AR GA AR
Brown Frank         StepS    M B 18                   AR GA AR

The younger children have no entries for marital status

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1900 Arkansas, Jefferson Co., Richland, ED 94, sheet 3B, line 87

Davis Miles       H        B M Aug 1870 29      M 7        GA GA SC        Laborer
      Mary F      W        B F Jan 1871 29      M 7 5 5    AR TN TN
Brown Frank       S Son    B M Feb 1892  8      S          AR AR AR        At School
Davis Napolion    S        B M Jun 1894  5      S          AR GA AR        At School
      Corinne     D        B F Jul 1896  3      S          AR GA AR
      Miles B     S        B M Mar 1898  2      S          AR GA AR
      Fred        S        B M May 1900    0/12 S          AR GA AR

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