I am looking for information on my Grandfather and his family in SC. The only information that I have is his name is Will Davis & is buried at Maye River Cemetery in Beaufort Countyy, SC. His son, William James Davis, Sr was my Father and his wife was Pearl A. Cooler (at death, she had re-married). If anyone has any suggestions on how I can find more information on him and our family, I would appreciate it. It seems without my fathers social or any specific dates or anything I can't get anywhere. I am only 27, my father was born in 1925 and passed away when I was 12, so I have no one left to question about our family history to give me any insight. Thanks so much!

Hi
I have read your other posts and decided to post what I found here, you might want to copy it to the Davis Surname Message Board.
1930 Census for Georgia, McIntosh County, Jones Township

William Davis age 48, first married at age 19 b. GA/father GA/mother GA occ: Foreman Lumber yard
wife Pearlie A. age 22 first married at age 16 b. SC/father SC/ mother SC
son William J. age 5 b. SC/GA/SC
son Raymond age 3 yrs 5 months b. SC/GA/SC
son Cecil age 1 yr 10 months b. GA/GA/SC
brother-in-law Ruby Bradham age 20 b. SC/SC/SC occ: laborer Lumber yard
The next household is an Ellis Cooler age 25 with wife Jessie.
The household above William Davis is probably a younger brother.
Rufus L. Davis age 36 first married at age 30 b. GA/GA/GA occ: Laborer Lumber yard
wife Allie M. age 22 first married at age 18 b. SC/SC/SC

So it looks like your Will is Willam and his marriage to Pearl was his second. Looks like he first married abt 1901/02.

You can get their death certificates, have you contacted the cemetery where your father is buried to see if he had any Military Honors? If he did and even if he didn't,
contact the Jasper County Veterans Office, usually located in the County Court House, to see if he filed his DD214 (Discharge papers) with them to recieive the GII. and Veterans Benefits due him from his service.

I'll do some further searching when I have some more time.

Good Luck
D. Simmons
ancestryseeker at gmail dot com

I live close to the Maye River Cemetery that may be the one you are referring to. If you are still searching for this info, I'd be happy to go see if I can find any Davis or Cooler tombstones.

I have already been out to Maye River and taken down the information along with lots of photos. Thank you for the offer. PS It didn't get my past my brick wall! :)

Good luck. Brick walls crumble at unexpected times. Keep trying!