| Margaret Malinda Davis was born 8 August 1875 in St. Joe, Missouri. Her parents were James Knox Polk Davis (b. about 1840-1842 and died 2 June 1910)and Sarah Louise Gipson (born 1 June 1857 and died 9 June 1948). Margaret Melinda had 11 brothers and sisters. The family was quite close,continually visiting one another. Samuel Davis, born 28 October 1873 in Bourbon, Crawford County, Missouri. He died of typhoid fever in 1897; Aseneth Emily Davis, born 24 September 1877, Crawford Co., Missouri;Ida Mae Davis, born 9 March 1880, Crawford Co.; William Edward Davis, born 3 April 1882, Crawford Co; Dora Adelia Davis and Cora Roselia Davis (twins) born 20 Feb. 1885, Springtown, Parker Co., Texas; Ella Lee Davis, born 14 Oct 1887, Springtown; Benjamin Davis, born 19 May 1890, Springtown; Joseph Emery Davis, born 16 May 1892, Azle, Tarant Co.,Texas; George Elliott Davis born 15 July 1894, Azle, Texas, and Lois Gertrude Davis 14 October 1896, Sabathany, Parker Co., Texas.
Margaret Melinda married Edmond Victor Manes 1 October 1893 in Dallas, Texas. They had five children: Harry Larkin, Claude, Eula Mae, Mabel, Alma Lee. Harry Larkin was born in Azle, Texas, the others were all born in Dallas. During his college years at the University of Texas, Melinda's grandson Charles Victor Manes would always arrive for the UT-OU game with a car full of friends. Malinda enjoyed feeding them with plentiful farm meals and farm hospitality. Not long after Edmond Victor's death 16 Ocrober 1939 Margaret Melinda moved to New York City to live in an apartment with her daughter Eula Mae and two adopted girls from Germany. Margaret Melinda died in New York City 8 January 1967, but was returned to Dallas for burial beside her husband in Laurel Land Cemetary.
Claude Manes, Margaret Melinda's second son, recounts that his grandparents (Polk Davis and Sarah Louise Gipson)lived in Indian Territory near Marietta. Every Spring, until Claude was about 7 years of age, Margaaret Melinda would take her children to visit her parents in Indian Territory. These visits continued until Oklahoma became a state. Then most of the Davis family moved to Guymon, Oklahoma, or what was called the Cherokee Strip. There many became elgible for 640 acres of grazing land and 168 acres of farming land.
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