This handmade concrete tombstone and grave surround for Earnestein Davis at Old Rockwall City Cemetery near downtown Rockwall features a handwritten tombstone that reads as follows:
"EARNESTEIN DAVIS
Born April 25 27
Died May 8 32
A modern grey granite tombstone has been added to the grave by descendants recently. It reads as follows:
"Mary Earnestine Davis
Daughter of
Earnest and Mary Davis
April 25, 1927 - May 8, 1932"
From Find-A-Grave: (
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"Daughter of Earnest G. and Mary Davis. Her mother was born in Louisiana and her father was born in Texas. Her family lived on the Rockwall-Heath Highway.
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1930USC Precinct 1, Rockwall, TX Rockwall - Heath - Highway - Roll: 2386; Page: 16A; Enumeration District: 0002; FHL microfilm: 2342120 -
Earnest G(ranville) Davis H Rent House 31Md b TX 1st md at 20 R/W f/m TX Farmer, Mary C (Elizabeth) Davis (nee Drayo) W 23 Md b LA 1st md at19 R/W f/m LA, Thur?An (Thurlan Granville) Davis S12 b TX School f/m TX, Orval (Orvil) Ray) Davis S 10 b TX School, Mary E(arnestine) Davis D2 b TX
1940USC Rockwall, TX Highway 205 Farm - (1935 Same House) - Roll: T627_4129; Page: 3B; Enumeration District: 199-2 -
Earnest G(ranville) Davis H Rent$4 41 Md b TX 6th grade Farmer, Mary E(lizabeth) Davis (nee Drayo) W 35 Md b LA COL 2yrs, Edwin E(arl) Davis S9 b TX 3rd grade School, Earnest
G(ranville) Davis (Jr) S6 b TX School, Donald G(arvin) Davis S1 bTX
Texas, Birth Certificates, 1903-1932
Mary Earnestine Davis
Birth Date: 25 Apr 1927
Gender: Female
Birth Place: Rockwall, Rockwall, TX
Father: Earnest Davis
Father Birth Place: Texas
Mother: Mary Dogys (Drayo)
Mother Birth Place: Louisiana
Mother Residence: Rockwall
Texas, Death Certificates, 1903-1982
Mary Earnestine Davis
Birth Date: 25 Apr 1927
Birth Place: Rockwall, TX
Gender: Female
Race: White
Residence: Rockwall, Texas
Father: E G Davis
Mother: Marry E Drays (Drayo)
Age at Death: 5
Death Date: 8 May 1932
Death Place: Dallas, Dallas, TX
Info from Lee Richards"
Sincde there was a death certificate, we decided to look on Ancestry. We discovered that Earnestine suffered an onset of perforative appendicitis on 1 May, a laparaotomy operation (exploratory abdominal surgery) was performed on her on 3 May in St Paul's Hospital in Dallas, but that she nevertheless died of generalized peritonitis at St. Paul's Hospital in Dallas on 8 May.
Blasterz were glad to see some Christmas decorations here for little Earnestine.