The Wallis and Gee side of my family are always talking about family members, long gone and sometimes forgotten.  My father and Aunt Cleo have brought these people to life for me.  I didn't have the privilege of knowing my father's side of the family as a child and my mother didn't talk about her side.

     For years after we were married my mother-in-law did not want me to search out any information on the Bates, White, Harkness and Dodson line.  There were some family connections they didn't want to talk about.  She had, however, told us she was of Native American descent, Cherokee or Pawnee from the Dodson line.  We now this connection is correct, we just don't know for sure how.  So we just keep digging.

     In the past I have spent very little time searching for the Davis, Layton and Spracklen lines.  I have gathered a large collection of pictures, stories and magazine articles on my grandmother Bessie Layton Davis, many of which are included here.