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Lynn Marion DAVIS

Lynn Marion DAVIS

Male 1896 - 1943  (46 years)


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  • Name Lynn Marion DAVIS
    Birth 19 Oct 1896  Franks Run, Center Point, Doddridge Co, WV Find all individuals with events at this location  [1, 2] 
    • Although the birth date on his headstone is 1897, and the 1900 Census has is as Oct 1897, his birth record shows that he was born on 19 Oct 1896 at Franks Run, located near the community of Center Point, Doddridge County, WV. The 19 Oct 1896 birth date also appears in his military records and on his death record.
    Gender Male
    Military World War I  [3, 4] 
    Census 1900  McClellan District, Doddridge Co, WV Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Census 1910  Salem, Harrison Co, WV Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Occupation 1918  [5] 
    Chicago Portrait Co. 
    • Operating from 1893 to the early 1940s, the Chicago Portrait Company specialized in door-to-door sales of enlarged portraits, often targeting rural American homes. Agents used existing customer photographs to sell crayon and pastel enlargements, but their primary business model centered on upselling expensive, ornate frames featuring distinctive bubble glass.The Business Model and Sales TacticsThe company’s model relied on traveling salesmen and door-to-door agents who visited homes across the United States. They would collect small, family snapshots from customers and offer to enlarge and enhance them into large, "hand-painted" portraits.In reality, the company relied on mass-produced "crayon enlargements" (photographic prints on curved cardstock enhanced with charcoal, pastels, and watercolors) rather than genuine, artist-painted portraits from scratch.
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    Residence 1918  Salem, Harrison Co, WV Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Census 1930  Ouachita Co, AR Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Occupation 1930  [3] 
    crude oil foreman 
    Census 1940  Justice Precinct, Eastland Co, TX Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Education Salem High School W.Va.  [6] 
    Occupation 1940  [7] 
    district foreman for Tidewater Oil Co. 
    Residence Mexia, Limestone Co, TX Find all individuals with events at this location  [2, 8] 
    Death 10 Sep 1943  Mexia, Limestone Co, TX Find all individuals with events at this location  [2, 9] 
    Cause: ruptured gastric ulcer 
    Burial SECTION B  Mexia City Cemetery, Mexia, Limestone Co, TX Find all individuals with events at this location  [2, 10] 
    Person ID I90033  Doddridge County Roots
    Last Modified 15 Jul 2026

    Father Wellington O. DAVIS,   b. 15 Jan 1863, Doddridge Co, (W)VA Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 11 Apr 1930 (Age 67 years)
    Mother Sarah Clona PAGE,   b. 21 Apr 1865, Highland Co, VA Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 28 Aug 1948 (Age 83 years)
    Family ID F29915  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family Mary Belva STOREY,   b. 2 Nov 1906, McAlester, Pittsburg Co, OK Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 29 Jan 1976, Houston, Harris Co, TX Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 69 years)
    Marriage 8 Jun 1922  Dallas Co, TX Find all individuals with events at this location  [11] 
    Family ID F62867  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  • Sources 
    1. [S1553] Doddridge County Birth Records, West Union, WV, p. 91, Line 966 : https://dach-image-proxy.digital-relativity.workers.dev/?film=838202&frame=00261.

    2. [S69] Texas Death Certificates, 1903-1982 [database on-line], (Ancestry.com and Texas Dept of State Health Svcs).

    3. [S1898] 1930 Census.

    4. [S398] U.S. Veterans Administration Master Index, 1917-1940.

    5. [S1875] National Archives and Records Administration, World War I Draft Registration Cards, 1917-1918, (Ancestry.com online database).

    6. [S1596] Newspaper article.

    7. [S127] 1940 Census.

    8. [S2508] National Archives and Records Administration, World War II Draft Registration Cards, 1942, (Ancestry.com online database).

    9. [S638] Headstone (year only).

    10. [S934] Findagrave.com.

    11. [S132] Texas Select County Marriage Index, 1837-1965 [database online], (Ancestry.com).