Davis, Mary Elizabeth

Class of 1915

Birth:  Dec. 5, 1892, Mecklenburg County, North Carolina, USA
Death: Aug. 5, 1968, Charlotte, Mecklenburg County, North Carolina, USA

Parents:
Columbus Brown Davis (1849 – 1930)
Elizabeth Jane Glenn Davis (1858 – 1938)

Spouse:
Robert Reese Griffin (1889 – 1962)

Siblings:
Margaret Davis Miller (1881 – 1962)
Luther Wilson Davis (1882 – 1883)
Cletus Austin Davis (1884 – 1886)
William Lester Davis (1890 – 1950)
James Brown Davis (1898 – 1963)

Burial:
Sharon Memorial Park
Charlotte, Mecklenburg County, North Carolina, USA

Source: www.findagrave.com, # 47288713.

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Charlotte Observer (Charlotte, NC), 28 Nov 1926, p. 32.

Miss Davis and Robert Griffin Marry Nov. 24th
Young Business Woman Is Bride of Charlotte Man

Cards reading as follows were issued yesterday:

“Mr. and Mrs. Columbus Brown Davis announce the marriage of their daughter, Mary Elizabeth, to Mr. Robert Reese Griffin, on Wednesday evening, November twenty-fourth, nineteen hundred and twenty-six, Charlotte, North Carolina. At home after November twenty-ninth, 1703 Belle Terra Court, Charlotte, N. C.”

Miss Davis, young business woman of the city, is a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. C. B. Davis, of Mount Mourne, Iredell county. She was educated at Mt. Amoena seminary at Mt. Pleasant. For some years she was a teacher in the Mecklenburg county schools and a member of the Mecklenburg County Teachers’ association. Mr. Griffin, member of a widely-known family of this section, is a native of Monroe, but has been in business in Charlotte for some time.