GDG- Burke Davis

[William Brown]

Here is his obit from the Charlotte (NC) Observer...

Walter Burke Davis, Jr.

GREENSBORO Mr. Davis, age 93, writer and historian, died August 18 in
Greensboro, North Carolina. He was the author of forty-seven books, chiefly
military history and biography, but also wrote historical and natural
history works for young readers. Davis is best known for his books on the
Civil War, all of which remain in print after 40-50 years.

He served as a Juror for Biography for the Pulitzer prizes in the 1980s. A
number of his books were presented to the White House Library by the
American Library Association. For many years his title were among the Fifty
Notable Books as listed annually by The New York Times.

His book To Appomattox: Six April Days won the Mayflower Cup in 1959 for the
best non-fiction work by a North Carolinian. He is the only member of the
North Carolina Hall of Fame in both literature and journalism. He was named
Distinguished Alumnus of Alumnus of Guilford College and received an
honorary degree of Doctor of Humane Letters from Greensboro College.

Born in Durham, North Carolina to W.B. and Harriet Jackson Davis, he moved
with his family to Greensboro in 1919 and was educated in the city's public
schools and later attended Duke University and Guilford College. He
graduated from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1937 with
a degree in journalism.

His twenty-year career as a newspaper man was spent on the Charlotte News,
the Baltimore Evening Sun and the Greensboro Daily News. Davis also served
as special writer for the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation.

Davis was a co-founder of the Sarah P. Duke Gardens of Duke University and a
board member of the North Carolina Botanical Garden in Chapel Hill.
Horticulture and care of ornamental and vegetable gardens were among his
chief interests.

He is survived by the former Juliet Halliburton Burnett, his wife of 24
years, which time he referred to as "my haleyon days". Additional survivors
are two children of a previous marriage, Angela Davis-Gardner of Raleigh,
North Carolina, and Walter Burke Davis III and his wife, Kelly Cherry of
Halifax, Virginia. He was predeceased by three sisters, Marjorie Hulton of
Dallas, Texas; Virginia (Mrs. John C.) King of Greensboro, North Carolina
and Marian D. Plummer of Albuquerque, New Mexico.

Davis leaves four grandchildren, Sarah D. (Mrs. Jason) Long and Kathryn D.
(Mrs. Matthew) Brigger, both of Clarksburg, Maryland; Leah D. Williams of
Broad Run, Virginia; and Heath Gardner of Raleigh, North Carolina. There are
two great-grandchildren.

Other survivors who have welcomed him into their lives are his step-son,
Timothy B. Burnett and wife, Jane of Greensboro, North Carolina, and their
daughters, Allison (Mrs. Brenton L.) Smith and her husband of New York, New
York, Catherine Burnett of chapel Hill, North Carolina and Elizabeth Burnett
of New York, New York. Also especially close in his affection are the
children of his step-daughter, Miranda B. Miles: Brian Miles and his wife,
Clara of Niceville, Florida; and Hallie Miles Bouchard and her husband,
Marcian of Durham, North Carolina. There are also four great-grandchildren.

http://www.charlotte.com/mld/charlotte/news/columnists/jack_betts/15317355.htm
Regards,

Bill


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