Stanley Fox DAVIS

1898 - 2003  (105 years)

• Name	Stanley Fox DAVIS
  Born	1 Sep 1898	Bristol, Harrison Co, WV   [1, 2, 3]
  Gender	Male
  Education	Alfred Universtiy, New York  [1]
  Occupation	Gulf Oil Company
  	During World War I, he worked on his father's farm, taught school and worked in a bank in Kansas City. Knowing that he did not want to be a farmer, school teacher or banker, in July 1919, he found employment in Eastland, Texas, with the Gulf Oil Company, beginning his career in the oil industry. In 1921, he accepted an assignment in South America with an exploratory drilling company. For the next 25 years, he helped to pioneer and develop the petroleum industry in Colombia, Ecuador and Venezuela.
  Residence	Lafayette, Lafayette Parish, LA   [1, 4]
  Died	16 Nov 2003	Lafayette, Lafayette Parish, LA   [3, 5, 6]
  Buried	Fouke Cemetery, Fouke, Miller Co, AR   [1, 7]
  Person ID	I57708	Doddridge County Roots
  Last Modified	26 Jul 2024

  
  

  Father	Stephen Jesse DAVIS,   b. 9 Mar 1868, Cherry Camp Run, Bristol, Harrison Co,WV ,   d. 24 Jan 1952, Texarkana, Miller Co, AR  (Age 83 years)
  Mother	Emma Columbia FOX,   b. 1 Feb 1868, Bristol, Harrison Co, WV ,   d. 17 May 1945, Texarkana, Miller Co, AR  (Age 77 years)
  Family ID	F22441	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Blanca Livia VASQUEZ,   b. 3 Apr 1910, Colombia ,   d. 21 May 1997  (Age 87 years)  [8]
  Married	11 Aug 1929	South America   [2]
  	Porto Wilches, Columbia
  Family ID	F23874	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Sources

  [S14] Obituary. [S83] Davis - The Settlers of Salem, West Virginia, Susie Davis Nicholson, (Gordon Printing Co, Strasburg OH, 1979 (Revised & Enlarged) < www.wvgenweb.org/harrison/books.htm >), p. 120. [S5] Headstone. [S1971] Social Security Death Index. [S1752] Obituary - At home. At the age of 6, he and his family moved to Fouke, Ark. He attended Alfred University at Alfred, N.Y. During World War I, he worked on his father's farm, taught school and worked in a bank in Kansas City. Knowing that he did not want to be a farmer, school teacher or banker, in July 1919, he found employment in Eastland, Texas, with the Gulf Oil Company, beginning his career in the oil industry. In 1921, he accepted an assignment in South America with an exploratory drilling company. For the next 25 years, he helped to pioneer and develop the petroleum industry in Colombia, Ecuador and Venezuela. During his employment in South America, Stanley married a beautiful Colombian girl, Blanca Livia Va'squez, she preceded him in death in 1997. Returning to the United States in 1944, he opted to make his home in southwest Louisiana. He opened and operated NAPA stores in Abbeville, Crowley, Rayne and Kaplan, later sold them and retired. In the 1950s, he moved to Lafayette and again worked in the oil industry in Lafayette. During retirement, he and Livia traveled in an Airstream trailer to all the states in the United States, Alaska, Canada, Mexico and all the way down Central America on the Pan American Highway to the Panama Canal. At his request, the following epitaph will be chiseled on his tombstone, "I have done the best I could with what I had to work with." [S15] Social Security Death Index. [S934] Findagrave.com. [S110] Obituary of husband.