The Davis Family History                          The Davis Extended Family. John Preston Davis  is seated on his grandmother's lap. 1905  Right to Left Back Row: Dr. William H. Davis , Julia Hubbard Davis, Rev Everett Harris , John Bull Davis, Leslie Davis, Charles Robert Right to Left first Row: William Davis, Susan Bates Davis, Everett G Harris , Sara Louise Davis,  John P, Davis ( seated on his grandmother's lap), Rachel Harris , Ella Bull Davis   On the new century's eve, in June 1899, William and Julia Davis, ­ pack­ed their chattel goods and with their infant children, Sara and William, boarded­ the “colored car” of a coal-fired train in Louisville, Kentucky. They were riding north, to­ Washing­ton, D.C., that shining city on a hill whose gleaming beacon of refuge­ and hope beckoned a generation of post Reconstruc­tion black Americans. In Washington, William and Julia Davis found a swampy metropolis with most of its street still unpaved. It would be nine years before Henry Ford's Model T automobile competed with horse-drawn vehicles­ carrying people through the capitals streets.     William and Julia Davis, John P. Davis' parents and his paternal grandmother, Susan La Baetz Davis. The two children are Sara Davis Taylor and William Davis, Jr (1896)     Conference Group Colored Editors n Washington during the war. Reading left to right, Front Row---Former Gov. P. B. S. Pinchback, Charles W. Anderson, Maj. L. P. DeMontal, Dr. Emmett J. Scott, Chairman, Col. Edouard Requin, Dr. Robert R. Moton, Judge R. H. Terrell, Dr. W. E. 13. DuBois, Major J. E. Spingarn, Chris J. Perry, Rev. Ernest Lyon. Second Row---W. H. Steward, Dr. A. M. Curtis, W. T. Andrews, Dr. W. H. Davis, Benj. J. Davis, Henry A. Boyd, R. S. Abbott, John Mitchell, Jr., J. H. Murphy, G. L. Knox, A. E. Manning. Third Row---Dr. Maurice Curtis, Dr. H. M. Minton, J. C. Dancy, H. C. Smith, E. A. Warren, C. K. Robinson, J. E. Mitchell. Ralph W. Tyler, R. W. Thompson, N. C. Crews. Fourth Row---Dr. S. A. Furniss, R. C. Bruce, P. B. Young, Geo. W. Harris, Dr. W. H. Brooks, Jas. A. Cobb, Dr. J. R. Hawkins, C. N. Love, W. J. Singleton, W. L. Houston. Wrn. E. King. Fifth Row---Dr. R. E. Jones, Maj. A. W. Washington, Robt. L. Vann. A. H. Grimke. Prof. Geo. W. Cook, Capt. Arthur S. Spingarn. F. R. Moore.