The Davis surname

In the chronology 75 people

The people of this surname named in the county’s dated events, as the names index lists them. Each printed name is its own heading; names that may be one person are not merged.

• Davis, A. R. 4 entries, 1919–1924
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  • 1919–1926: Consolidating the rural schools and hauling the children, 1919–1926
  • 1924-1925: A new consolidated school for white children is built at Efland
  • 1924-1925: A new consolidated school is built at Orange Grove
  • 1924-1925: A new consolidated school is built at White Cross on the Saxapahaw road
• Davis, Alexander Jackson 14 entries, 1830–1856
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• Davis, Alfonso 1 entry, 1878
  • October 16, 1878: Orange Superior Court convicts three men of the Hendon burglary and sentences them to hang
• Davis, Angela 5 entries, 1974–1997
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  • November 1974: Angela Davis speaks in Memorial Hall
  • early September 1976: Angela Davis comes to Chapel Hill to rally support for a Labor Day march
  • 1989–1996: Race Relations Week at UNC, 1989–1996
  • February 23, 1990: Angela Davis opens UNC's second Race Relations Week
  • November 17, 1997: Angela Davis gives the fourth annual Sonja Haynes Stone Memorial Lecture
• Davis, Archie 17 entries, 1935–1969
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  • Spring and summer 1935: Farmers and the relief administration build a ten-mile power line to Orange Grove
  • March 22, 1940: Louis Graves's Weekly takes up J. L. Morehead's call to give Franklin Street a Williamsburg look
  • 1940–1942: Williamsburging Franklin Street, 1940–1942
  • 1941–1942: The new Carolina Theatre, 1941–1942
  • by November 28, 1941: The planning commission persuades a theatre chain to give the new Carolina Theatre a Colonial front
  • opened October 15, 1942: The Carolina Theatre is built on East Franklin Street to a Williamsburg design by Archie Davis
  • by July 24, 1942: The Navy begins a temporary office building for the Pre-Flight School beside the campus tennis courts
  • 1945-1948: A row of Colonial-style stores fills the 300 and 400 blocks of West Franklin Street
  • March 6, 1950: A Chapel Hill delegation urges a Colonial design and Archie Davis for the new courthouse
  • February 6, 1950: The county school board signs Archie Davis to design a new school for Black students in Chapel Hill
  • 1951–1964: The Chapel Hill Fire Department, 1951–1964
  • early July 1951: The county accepts a low bid for steel for the new courthouse
  • by August 30, 1951: The National Production Authority refuses to let the county start its new courthouse
  • May 1956: Dr. Sidney and Christine Chipman move into their new house on Dogwood Drive
  • November 16, 1959: Chapel Hill opens its Glen Lennox fire station
  • March 1963: Orange County completes a new Agricultural Building in Hillsborough
  • May 13, 1969: The trustees' subcommittee on campus disorders holds its first meeting
• Davis, Archie K. 3 entries, 1969–1974
  • October 27, 1969: UNC trustees make the campus disruptions policy permanent
  • 1969–1974: The trustees' disruptions policy, 1969–1974
  • October 12, 1974: The University library receives its two millionth volume on University Day
• Davis, Archie Royal 67 entries, 1921–1975
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• Davis, Archie Royal 1 entry, 1960
  • 1960–1964: Building Orange High School, 1960–1964
• Davis, Ashley 2 entries, 1971
  • 1971-72 school year: The BSM starts its Gospel Choir, Opeyo Dancers and Ebony Readers
  • April 13, 1971: Student Legislature funds the Black Student Movement after leaving it out of two budgets
• Davis, Bill 2 entries, 1989–1990
  • 1989–1993: A new building for WUNC, 1989–1993
  • by October 17, 1990: WUNC raises $1.5 million toward a new station on University land
• Davis, Bonnie B. 13 entries, 1950–2021
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• Davis, C. L. 1 entry, 1888
  • March 4, 1888: Bud of Hope Lodge of Black Odd Fellows marks its second anniversary with a procession
• Davis, C. W. 8 entries, 1946–1955
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  • September 29, 1946: Union Grove Methodist Church marks its centennial and lays a new cornerstone
  • by December 13, 1949: Bond money sets aside $235,000 for a new Lincoln High School
  • May 2, 1949: Orange County's new Board of Education organizes with Kemp S. Cate as chairman
  • October 13, 1949: Chapel Hill NAACP branch starts a voter registration drive for the school bond election
  • March 31, 1950: A state review panel approves Orange County's building plans for Black schools
  • by January 11, 1951: Members of the Chapel Hill Council on Negro Affairs file a discrimination suit over the new Black high school
  • early December 1955: Student bus drivers at Chapel Hill's white schools threaten to strike for higher pay
  • June 27, 1955: County commissioners clash with the Chapel Hill school board over a Lincoln School gymtorium
• Davis, Carl 1 entry, 1955
  • week of November 28, 1955: Orange County commissioners decide the county does not need a county manager
• Davis, Carl C. 3 entries, 1936–1959
  • 1936: The sheriff stops serving as the county's tax collector
  • March 2, 1959: Tax collector Carl C. Davis resigns to become manager of the county ABC system
  • March 16, 1959: Commissioners name Hortense Copeland Dickson tax collector and create a property appraiser post
• Davis, Charles 4 entries, 1880–1991
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  • about 1880: The Charles Davis Farm is built
  • 1990–1996: UNC housekeepers’ movement, 1990–1996
  • September 1990: UNC housekeepers object to a new merit-pay system as most are rated for raises
  • by February 13, 1991: Nineteen UNC housekeepers file a grievance charging racial and sex discrimination in pay
• Davis, Charles L. 1 entry, 1957
  • November 25, 1957: Black farm families hold the Blue Ribbon Farm Program's annual meeting at Cedar Grove School
• Davis, Charles W. 2 entries, 1945–1953
  • by March 8, 1945: The school board names Charles W. Davis of Roanoke Rapids superintendent
  • November 24, 1953: The two school superintendents lay $2.4 million in building needs before the commissioners
• Davis, Cy 2 entries, 1974
  • by September 27, 1974: The Black Student Movement joins the student-fee lawsuit as a defendant
  • by September 3, 1974: The Black Student Movement opens its membership to all students
• Davis, Debra 1 entry, 2003
  • 2003: The GLBT-SA holds the first Unity Conference
• Davis, Mrs. Douglas 3 entries, 1948–1951
  • 1948: Hyconeechee Regional Library is established
  • May 22, 1949: The Orange County Negro Public Library held its grand opening at the community center in Hillsboro
  • by November 1, 1951: The Orange County library reports its reading has nearly doubled in ten years
• Davis, E. H. 2 entries, 1889–1890
  • April 1889 to February 1891: Seven Black members are moved from the Methodist roll to the new Congregational church, then restored
  • December 15, 1890: The Methodist conference sends J. E. Bristowe to the Hillsborough Circuit
• Davis, Elizabeth Rhodes 1 entry, 1839
  • May Term 1839: The court binds Sally Davis's four children to their mother after her husband deserts the family
• Davis, Ervin 1 entry, 1947
  • September 1947: James and Ervin Davis open the Barrel Lick
• Davis, Erwin 1 entry, 1947
  • April 28, 1947: Black World War II veterans form Hillsboro's first organization for Black ex-servicemen
• Davis, G. E. 1 entry, 1925
  • April 9, 1925: Orange County's Black schools hold their county commencement at the Orange County Training School
• Davis, G. Obie 3 entries, 1941–1951
  • May 6, 1941: Chapel Hill re-elects Mayor John M. Foushee and elects Fitch, Bowman, and Davis aldermen
  • May 14, 1951: Chapel Hill opens its second century with Mayor Lanier's seventeen-point program
  • May 8, 1951: Chapel Hill elects William S. Stewart judge as Fred Edwards runs for alderman
• Davis, George 1 entry, 1932
  • December 8, 1932: A gravel-pit cave-in on the Durham road kills a Black relief worker
• Davis, George W. 1 entry, 1954
  • September 11, 1954: Rev. George W. Davis of Durham becomes pastor of Jones Grove
• Davis, Grady 2 entries, 1972
  • 1972–1985: Black History Week and Month in Chapel Hill, 1972–1985
  • February 8-10, 1972: The BSM holds its first Black History Week
• Davis, Harry 1 entry, 1933
  • November 2 to 4, 1933: The Carolina Playmakers stage Paul Green's The House of Connelly
• Davis, Harry E. 3 entries, 1929–1959
  • 1929–1933: Amateur theatre outside the Playmakers, 1929–1933
  • April 12, 1932: Harry Davis organizes the Junior Carolina Playmakers, a children's theatre
  • 1959: Samuel Selden leaves the Playmakers and Harry E. Davis takes over the Department of Dramatic Art
• Davis, Henry A. 1 entry, 1879
  • April 11, 1879: Judge Buxton resentences the three Chapel Hill burglars to hang after the Supreme Court upholds their conviction
• Davis, Herbert 1 entry, 1980
  • reported September 1980: Only four of UNC's Black freshmen come from Orange County
• Davis, J. B. 4 entries, 1921–1924
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  • 1921: Toney and William Strayhorn begin Carrboro Baptist's brick church
  • September 1923: Carrboro Baptist Church expels three women for swimming in the pool with men
  • June 8, 1924: Carrboro Baptist pastor J. B. Davis resigns to teach in Texas
  • by March 6, 1924: Carrboro Baptists dedicate their new church
• Davis, J. J. 1 entry, 1874
  • April 8, 1874: University trustees declare the presidency vacant and order legal action against Solomon Pool
• Davis, Jackson 1 entry, 1917
  • by November 29, 1917: State and General Education Board agents visit R. E. Malone's school for Black pupils at Chapel Hill
• Davis, James 2 entries, 1775
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• Davis, James 5 entries, 1780–1947
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  • 1780–1821: The Hawfields, Cross Roads, Eno and Little River churches, 1780–1821
  • early 1800s: The Paisley-Rice log house is built near Mebane
  • February 7, 1801: William D. Paisley buys the farm where the Paisley-Rice log house stands
  • September 1854: Joseph Brockwell's murder case is moved to Chatham and ends in a manslaughter verdict
  • September 1947: James and Ervin Davis open the Barrel Lick
• Davis, Jan 2 entries, 1993
  • November 22-23, 1993: Students protest the trustees' repeal of 24-hour visitation
  • 1993–1994: Twenty-four-hour visitation at UNC, 1993–1994
• Davis, Jefferson 11 entries, 1861–1943
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  • June 2, 1861: Hillsborough Baptists hold a prayer meeting called by Jefferson Davis
  • January 3, 1863: President Jefferson Davis speaks to a crowd at the Hillsborough depot
  • October 15, 1863: Swain asks Jefferson Davis to exempt university students from the draft
  • March 10, 1864: Confederate War Department refuses to exempt underclassmen
  • April 14, 1865: Graham and Swain bring Governor Vance word of Lee's surrender at Hillsborough
  • April 18, 1865: Johnston accepts Sherman's basis of agreement at the Bennitt farm
  • 1866 commencement: Trustees strike Confederate leaders from the commencement ball
  • December 10, 1889: Hillsborough holds a public meeting and memorial service for Jefferson Davis
  • May 30, 1893: Jefferson Davis's funeral train passes through Hillsborough without stopping
  • 1899–1912: The Anderson Chapter, UDC, and the Confederate graves at Hillsborough, 1899–1912
  • by January 29, 1943: University Library exhibits the Venable collection of Confederate orders and letters
• Davis, John 1 entry, 1984
  • by September 6, 1984: Chapel Hill inspectors refuse occupancy of the unfinished Kensington Trace condominiums
• Davis, John R. 1 entry, 1983
  • January 4, 1983: Fumes from a water heater send 21 Spa Health Club patrons to the hospital
• Davis, Joseph J. 2 entries, 1874–1878
  • August 6, 1874: Orange County elects the whole Conservative ticket
  • November 5, 1878: Orange votes for Joseph J. Davis over Josiah Turner for Congress
• Davis, Lambert 1 entry, 1948
  • 1948 (reported January 1949): Lambert Davis is named director of the University of North Carolina Press
• Davis, Mary 1 entry, 1839
  • May Term 1839: The court binds Sally Davis's four children to their mother after her husband deserts the family
• Davis, Mary Kemp 2 entries, 1993
  • September 23, 1993: About 35 supporters rally outside South Building as trustees hear Mary Kemp Davis's tenure appeal
  • by October 19, 1993: UNC trustees deny English professor Mary Kemp Davis's tenure appeal
• Davis, Melinda Ellenor 1 entry, 1839
  • May Term 1839: The court binds Sally Davis's four children to their mother after her husband deserts the family
• Davis, Morris E. 1 entry, 1969
  • by November 19, 1969: The Morehead Foundation endows a Morehead Astronomy Professorship at UNC
• Davis, Rev. Mr. 1 entry, 1891
  • by January 12, 1891: A new pastor, Mr. Davis, takes charge of the Chapel Hill Methodist church
• Davis, Nate 4 entries, 1962–2022
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• Davis, Obie 9 entries, 1941–1948
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  • August 21, 1941: Chapel Hill's four central filling stations agree to take turns opening on Sundays
  • March 11, 1942: Chapel Hill aldermen move to hold down rents before the Navy cadets come
  • November 1942: Bruce Strowd joins the Chapel Hill board of aldermen
  • August 22, 1942: Chapel Hill aldermen suspend the town's milk ordinance for 45 days
  • 1942–1945: Chapel Hill's milk supply in wartime, 1942–1945
  • January 5, 1942: Tire rationing board for southern Orange County receives its first quota
  • September 18, 1946: Chapel Hill requires board approval of new subdivision plats
  • May 6, 1947: Chapel Hill re-elects Mayor R. W. Madry and Recorder's Court Judge Henry Whitfield
  • January 26, 1948: Chapel Hill orders traffic lights for the post office corner
• Davis, Ora Mae 2 entries, 1931–1935
  • 1931: Ora Mae Davis builds the Playmakers' costume department
  • May 25 and 27, 1935: The Carolina Playmakers stage Hamlet in the Forest Theatre, with Frederick Koch as Hamlet
• Davis, Oroondates 2 entries, 1780
  • September–November 1780: Board of War, led by Alexander Martin, directs the war effort from Hillsborough
  • 1780: Hillsborough as the southern army's base after Camden, 1780
• Davis, Ossie 2 entries, 1978–1986
  • March 15, 1978: Ossie Davis and Ruby Dee appear in Memorial Hall
  • February 24-27, 1986: BSM students teach Black literature classes at Chapel Hill High School
• Davis, Pat 2 entries, 1968–1983
  • 1968–1990: Droughts, the Durham lines and Hillsborough water, 1968–1990
  • November 28, 1983: OWASA declares the 1983 water shortage over
• Davis, Patrick 1 entry, 1990
  • by April 23, 1990: Carrboro Town Commons task force raises enough for the first design phase
• Davis, Pleasant Rhodes 2 entries, 1839–1848
  • May Term 1839: The court binds Sally Davis's four children to their mother after her husband deserts the family
  • August Term 1848: The court hears a charge that Kendal B. Wait ill-used his apprentice Pleasant Davis and clears him
• Davis, Q. C. 1 entry, 1916
  • October 3-4, 1916: The Mount Zion Baptist Association holds its annual meeting at the Carrboro Baptist church
• Davis, Rennie 1 entry, 1970
  • April 11-12, 1970: The Festival of Life antiwar gathering comes to Ehringhaus Field and Carmichael Auditorium
• Davis, Robert 3 entries, 1818–1991
  • 1818: St. Jude's Church on Stony Creek is admitted to the Episcopal diocesan convention
  • November 8, 1890: The Colored Farmers' Alliance calls meetings at Chapel Hill and Hillsborough for its state lecturer
  • March 1, 1991: UNC trustees approve moving Paul Green's writing cabin to the Botanical Garden
• Davis, Roling 1 entry, 1839
  • May Term 1839: The court binds Sally Davis's four children to their mother after her husband deserts the family
• Davis, Sally 1 entry, 1839
  • May Term 1839: The court binds Sally Davis's four children to their mother after her husband deserts the family
• Davis, Simon 2 entries, 1790–1818
  • 1790–1833: The Revill family and the county court, 1790–1833
  • November Term 1818: The court takes Elizabeth Revill, a free girl of color, from Simon Davis
• Davis, Steve 3 entries, 1799–1994
  • 1799–1994: The Eagle Hotel and University Inn site, 1799–1994
  • by April 22, 1994: UNC archaeologists uncover the foundations of the Eagle Hotel beside Graham Memorial
  • May 27, 1994: UNC archaeologists finish excavating the Eagle Hotel site beside Graham Memorial
• Davis, Susan C. 1 entry, 1880
  • early February 1880: Susan C. Davis, whose house was long Chapel Hill's Methodist meeting place, dies
• Davis, T. J. 1 entry, 1945
  • late May 1945: The Terrace View supper club opens on the Greensboro road west of Chapel Hill
• Davis, Tarleton 1 entry, 1965
  • July 15, 1965: The board names the first principals of Stanford Junior High and Central Elementary
• Davis, Thadious M. 1 entry, 1986
  • September 25, 1986: Jill McCorkle reads To Kill a Mockingbird at a Banned Books Week protest in the Pit
• Davis, Thomas 3 entries, 1782–1915
  • May 18, 1782: The Assembly names Thomas Davis state printer and tells him to set up his press at Hillsborough
  • 1785 or early 1786: The North Carolina Gazette begins publication at Hillsborough
  • January 21, 1915: An old fiddlers' convention is held at the Colonial Theatre in Carrboro
• Davis, Thomas C. 1 entry, 1850
  • August Term 1850: The court has Chapel Hill children of color brought in and binds Jack Evans to John Turner
• Davis, Tom 3 entries, 1952–1963
  • October 1, 1952: The News of Orange County reports its owners and a paid circulation of 2,545
  • July 23, 1963: A petition with 1,080 signatures for a public accommodations law goes to the Chapel Hill aldermen
  • July 12, 1963: A Committee for Open Business mass meeting authorizes nonviolent direct action
• Davis, Walter 2 entries, 1975–1976
  • December 12, 1975: The Chapel Hill Newspaper files a complaint over closed UNC trustee committee meetings
  • February 13, 1976: The state attorney general's office says UNC trustees could close utilities-sale meetings to a reporter
• Davis, Walter Royal 11 entries, 1972–1993
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• Davis, Webb 1 entry, 1966
  • July 30, 1966: UNC retires its Univac 1105 computer

In books and archives 9 headings

Subject headings from the library catalogs Orange County Indexed gathers. A family heading collects genealogies and family papers; a person heading, the works about that person.

• Davis, James, 1721-1785 10 works
• Davis, Nate, 5 works
• Davis, Thomas, -1790? 4 works
• Davis, Walter Royal, 3 works
• Davis, Alexander Jackson, 1803-1892 2 works
• Davis, Hubert, 2 works
• Davis, John, Jr., 1973?- 2 works
• Davis, Ashley 1 work
• Davis, F. A., Active 1880-1881 1 work

In the historical records 664 records

154 deeds, 14 records of enslaved people, 175 marriages, 263 court minutes, 27 tax list entries and 31 wills and papers, oldest first. Every record that names someone of this surname, as the record spells it; choose a collection to narrow the list. Davis marriages in full · Search the name in every collection