Benjamin O. Davis Sr.: Difference between revisions

Davis married Elnora Dickerson in 1902.<ref name="Finkelman">{{cite book |editor-last=Finkelman |editor-first=Paul |date=2009 |title=Encyclopedia of African American History, 1896 to the Present |volume=1 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=6gbQHxb_P0QC&pg=RA1-PA17 |location=New York, NY |publisher=Oxford University Press |page=17 |isbn=978-0-1951-6779-5 |via=[[Google Books]]}}</ref> Their daughter Olive was born in 1905, and was the wife of George W. Streator, the editor of ''The Pilot'', the magazine of the [[National Maritime Union]].<ref name="Irwin"/><ref name="Finkelman"/> A son, [[Benjamin O. Davis Jr.]], was born in 1912.<ref name="Finkelman"/> In early 1916, a second daughter was born, but Elnora died a few days later from complications of childbirth; daughter Elnora was named for her.<ref name="Finkelman"/> The younger Elnora Davis was the wife of [[James A. McClendon]].<ref>{{cite magazine |editor-last=Flanagan |editor-first=Sylvia P. |date=November 15, 2004 |title=Died: Elnora Davis McLendon |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=K78DAAAAMBAJ&pg=PP18 |magazine=[[Jet (magazine)|Jet]] |location=Boulder, CO |publisher=Johnson Publishing Company |page=18 |via=[[Google Books]]}}</ref>

 

 

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