b. February 24, 1881m. August 8, 1903, B. Sanders Davis of Pinson Bear Creek, son of Tom Davis of Deanburg, Madison Co., Tenn., who later married a second time and reared a family at Henderson, Tenn.
d. July 1905
pb. Big Springs Methodist Cemetery
A daughter, Willie Lee Davis, was born to Serena and Sanders Davis on July 1, 1904. After the death of Serena in July 1905 the baby girl was adopted by Mr. and Mrs. Dave McAdoo who lived at Malesus, Tenn., and were active in the Methodist Church there. The McAdoo's were not able to have children of their own and later adopted a son, Bobby Lawrence, who was the same age as John William Watlington and was in his class at Malesus High School. We do not have any record of a kinship pattern between the McAdoos and the Watlington or Davis families. Mack Rob Watlington was living on the farm of Frank Davis, son of Richard Davis in 1903 when Serena married Sanders Davis.
Willie Lee Davis married Otis Simms who worked with Ford Motor Company in Detroit most of his life and visited Tennessee each summer, driving a new Ford car. After Otis retired, they moved to California and the family lost track of them.
According to Papa's memory Sanders Davis and Serena spent one crop year in Texas in 1904. He made a crop there and Papa worked some for him. Papa hired out to several different farmers during that year. Willie Lee Davis was born in Texas during that year. Sanders Davis and Papa lived near Bonicord, Red River County, where Clarksville was the county seat. In 1975, Durward Baker of Madison County lived in the same community.