Edwin Davis was born May 11, 1893, at Alexandria, Minnesota. He came to North Dakota in 1907, with his parents, Herbert and Ida Mae Chadwick Davis and settled near Cathay. Edwin married in Canada on February 7, 1920, Selma Evelyn Olson, who was born July 26, 1903 at Penn, North Dakota. The couple came to the Melville area to live in 1923. In 1929 they moved to Carrington where Mr. Davis worked as a carpenter.
The couple had seven children: Evelyn, Gladys, Jean, Roy, Lloyd, Ernest and Jerry.
Mrs. Davis died in May 1957. Mr. Davis died in March 1973. They are buried in the Carrington Cemetery.
Source: A History of Foster County 1983 Page 83B