Ethel Mae Beeker ^{1 2 3 4}

  Noted events in her life were:

1. Occupation: clerical, civic service on 20 Jul 1898 in Winston-Salem, Forsyth, NC. ³

2. Residence: 1515 Lynwood Ave., Winston-Salem, NC on 20 Jul 1898 in Winston-Salem, Forsyth, NC. ³

3. Census in 1910 in Atwell Township, Rowan, NC. ² The 1910 census recorded living on Mill Bridge Road: John Becker [indexed wrong due to poor handwriting], laborer, odd jobs, 43, with wife Nannie, 42; May Lillie, 16; Ola, 13; Halley, 11; Mamie, 8; Ethel, 5; and Mitchel, 2. Everyone and their parents were born in North Carolina. John and Nannie were married for 19 years and she had birthed 7 children, all alive in 1910.

4. Census in 1920 in Durham, Durham, NC. ⁵ The 1920 census recorded at 311 Rigsbee Avenue 3 Beeker sisters boarding in the home of Benjamin Styron, general collector, 62, and his wife Jennie A., 50: May L. Beeker, laborer in tobacco factory, 24, single; Mamie Beeker, laborer in tobacco factory, 18, single; and Ethel Beeker, 15, single.

5. Census in 1950 in Winston-Salem, Forsyth, NC. ⁶ The 1950 census recorded at 122 South Marshall Street: Raymond C. Cook, barber in own barber shop, 53, living with wife Mae L., beauty operator in own beauty shop, 56; Mae's sister Ethel Davis, clerk typist for veteran's administration, 45; Ethel's son William F. Davis, automobile salesman, 24; and Mae and Ethel's father, John H. Beeker, widowed, 82. Everyone was born in North Carolina.

Ethel married William Fred Davis, son of W. A. Davis and Maggie Wilson, on 14 Dec 1924 in , Forsyth, NC.¹ (William Fred Davis was born on 1 Jul 1898 in , , NC,^{1 4 7} died on 29 Oct 1940 in Winston-Salem, Forsyth, NC ^{4 7} and was buried in Winston-Salem: Salem Cemetery, Forsyth, NC ⁷.)