Posted on: Yuba County, California Biographies Board URL: http://cgi.rootsweb.com/~genbbs/genbbs.cgi/USA/Ca/YubaBios?read=29 Surname: Davis, Gergory, Shingle, Nelson ------------------------- Charles Frank Davis sold most belongings at an auction on November 14 1918 and moved to California. Following taken from Histoy of Yuba Co. 1924 C. F. Davis---- A Prominent rancher and fruit-grower of Yuba County, C. F. Davis has long been engaged in development work, both in the Eastern States and in California, and his success can be attributed to persevering energy and far sighted methods of agriculture and horticulture. Born near Haddam, Washington County Kansas on February 23 1873, he is the eldest of five children surviving their parents. W.H. Davis and Sarah E (Brown) Davis, natives of Iowa and Kansas, respectively. C. F. Davis was reared on a farm in Kansas, and there learned the rudiments of soil cultivation. He left home at the age of twenty, and in 1893 was married to Miss Iona Gregory. She was born in De Kalb County. Mo., and was the second child of the late James .M and Amanda (Hudgins) Gregory, both natives of that State, who settled in California in 1895. In 1896 C.F. Davis homesteaded in Custer County Okla. For twenty-five years he has been an extensive farmer, at present still owns 320 acres of land. In 1896 and 1897 he spent a year in Yolo County, California. In 1917 he brought his family to California locating in Yuba County. Since then he has made three trips back to Oklahoma to attend to his interests there. At the same time, he has been carrying on much development work in Yuba County, neat Marysville, his sons being associated with him in the work of clearing, leveling and planting bottom lands: they are at present engaged in developing orchards, having recently set out over sixty acres to peach trees and fifteen acres to cherries and prunes, which have shown the phenomenal growth characteristic of this section of the Golden State. Both Mr. Davis and his sons cultivate the land with the true understanding of its real possibilities, and at the same time enrich the soil for future generations. Nine children blessed the union of Mr. and Mrs. Davis, Lloyd L is associated with his father: he married Grace Hampton, and has two children. Dorothy and Evelyn June. Roy E. is a rancher: he married Mary Sliger, and is the father of one daughter Sybil. Arthur M. is also a rancher: He married Marie Shingle, and have one son Calvin. Edith E. is the wife Harvey Lolmaugh and the mother of one daughter, Marie. Gladys M. Married Carl Hart. Fern married Warren Shingle, and has one son, Louis. The others are Edna, Everett H. and Owen R.