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Submitted by mcdavis06 on April 21, 2006
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Edna Berl Franklin Davis
Edna Berl Davis was born in December of 1929. Four months before her birth her daddy
William Burl Franklin was killed in a car accident leaving Ida Franklin his wife with five
children and one on the way. When Edna was born her mother Ida Franklin wanted her to be
named after her father so she was named Edna Berl Franklin. Her childhood was a happy one
even though her father had passed away she never knew what it was like with him so it did not
really effect her. Edna's family was very poor, but she did not know anything else so she learned
to cope with her life like it was.
During the Great Depression Edna's family moved in with her granddaddy, they called
him Papa. They had gardens planted so that there was food for them to eat because they could not
afford to buy it. Edna's papa was a blacksmith and he also shod horses for their neighbors for
twenty five cents and cut mens hair for ten cents. Another thing he did for money was make
caskets for oversized people and Edna's mom would line them with material and make a pillow.
Edna had a great relationship with her mother. Her mom always carried her to church and
taught her good morals to live by and how to be a lady. She had a lot of respect for her mother
because she was strong, she could not imagine how hard it would have been to raise six children
with out a husband. Edna's mom lived with her and her husband Charles Davis from 1965 till
1996 when she passed away at the age of one hundred and two and a half years old.
Edna had two brothers and three sisters: Earl and Tony the two boys, and Leola,
Florence, and Bernice the three sisters. Her siblings were much older than her, Earl the oldest
was eighteen years older, but they were still very close. Edna was closest to her sister Leola
because Leola helped raise Edna by...
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