Davidson Family Markers
Resthaven Park Cemetery
Glendale, Maricopa County, Arizona

Born 26th of February 1877 in St. Charles, Winona Co., MN, she was the eldest child of ten children born to Albro B. Danforth and Eunice Matilda (Short). The family moved to Barnes County, North Dakota where Clara married William F. Neagle on 28 November 1904.

William was born in Chatsworth, Livingston Co., Illinois, and was the son of Irish imigrants, John Neagle and Ellen Croty. He and Clara were the parents of eight children, one boy and seven girls, six of which lived to adulthood. When William passed away in 1925, their youngest child was but eight years old. - In the mid thirties, Clara joined her daughter Connie and son-in-law, V.W. Davidson in Arizona where they lived and worked at the dams eventually buying a small ranch in the agricultural area of Peoria, northwest of Phoenix. - She passed away on the 8th of December 1959.

Born in Luverne, Barnes Co., North Dakota, Vernon was the son of Robert and Pearl (Johnson) who were the parents of fourteen children. He married C. Constance Neagle, the daughter of William and Clara (Danforth) in 1934, he and Connie having been neighbors and attended the same school and social functions.

After two years of failed crops from the dust bowl, Vernon and Connie auctioned everything off their ranch and headed west to Phoenix, Arizona where Connie's sister Ruth had gone earlier. He began working on the Arizona dams and later moved to Phoenix where they bought a filling station on the northwest edge of town, later selling it and moving to Peoria which was much further north of town. He obtained his concrete contractor's license and contracted in Phoenix for many years. - He and Connie were the parents of three children, LaVerna Leigh, Victor Delano, and Darly Gene Davidson.

Born in St. Louis, Missouri, Jeanette was the only child of Clarence Lane and Theresa (Laratta). At about age eight, her parents divorced and her mother married Virgil Baugh who moved the family to Phoenix, Arizona when Jeanette was about fourteen. She met Vic Davidson, son of Vernon and Connie, on a blind date at the Arizona State Fair and 1959 they married and had three children, their youngest, Darlene, passing a few hours after her birth.

Jeanette and Vic lived most of their married life in the Phoenix area where Vic was a licensed concrete contractor. Jeanette loved the outdoors, wild life, fishing, hunting, and was a lover of literature and history. She wrote poetry, kept the business books, and after their divorce, became a nurses assistant and child care provider. She was a tender soul, compassionate and generous ... and passed away far too quickly, leaving many to mourn. She was my mother, my editor, my friend - and the best of grandmas to my daughter Lara.

Born in Phoenix, Arizona on the 3rd of October 1962, Darlene was the youngest child of Vic and Jeanette (Lane) Davidson. She came into our lives and left only a few hours later, but we mourned the loss and missed her. She is laid to rest in "Baby Land" of the Resthaven Park Cemetery.

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