Edith Prescott (Luckett) Davis (abt. 1888 - 1987)

Born about 16 Jul 1888 in Petersburg, Virginia, United States

Ancestors

Wife of Kenneth Seymour Robbins — married 27 Jun 1916 (to 23 Feb 1928) in Bennington, Vermont

Wife of Loyal Edward Davis — married 21 May 1929 in Illinois

Descendants

Died 27 Oct 1987 at about age 99 in Phoenix, Maricopa County, Arizona, United States

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Biography

Edith was born on 16 Jul 1888 in Washington, DC, the daughter of Charles Luckett and Sarah Whitlock.^[1]

She died on 27 Oct 1987 while living in Phoenix, Arizona.^[2] She is buried in Greenwood Memory Lawn Cemetery in Phoenix.^[3]

Mother of Nancy Reagan

Research Notes

• There is a "birth return" document that shows a female child born on 16 Jul 1888 to Charles and Sarah (Whitlock) Luckett in Washington, DC.^[1] It's not certain that this was Edith. There are other sources that give her birth date as 16 Jul 1896.^[3] Some of the census records listed on her FamilySearch profile show a birth year of 1891.^[4]

Sources

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1} "District of Columbia Birth Returns, 1874-1897", database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:F75Z-562 : 8 September 2021), Luckett, 1888.
2. ↑ "United States, GenealogyBank Obituaries, Births, and Marriages 1980-2014," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QVRP-FQZD : accessed 27 September 2022), Mrs Edith Luckett Or Lucky Davis, California, United States, 27 Oct 1987; from "Recent Newspaper Obituaries (1977 - Today)," database, GenealogyBank.com (http://www.genealogybank.com : 2014); citing Los Angeles Times, born-digital text.
3. ↑ ^{3.0 3.1} Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/11296627/edith-prescott-davis: accessed 27 September 2022), memorial page for Edith Prescott “Edie” Luckett Davis (16 Jul 1896–26 Oct 1987), Find A Grave: Memorial #11296627, citing Greenwood Memory Lawn Cemetery, Phoenix, Maricopa County, Arizona, USA; Maintained by Michael Wood (contributor 46811475).
4. ↑ FamilySearch Person: MPV9-5BB

See also:

• Nancy Reagan: The Unauthorized Biography by Kitty Kelly, Simon & Schuster 1991

• Edith Luckett Davis - Obituary newspaper article in the Ocala Star-Banner October 27, 1987: http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=DroVAAAAIBAJ&sjid=mw4EAAAAIBAJ&pg=5600%2C5325373
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edith_Luckett_Davis

Acknowledgments

Thanks to Kimberly Luckett for starting this profile. Click the Changes tab for the details of contributions by Kimberly and others.