My name is Dallie Vernon. I write.

I wrote the biography and the genealogy of my mother, Donna Lenora Davis. She died in 1946 at the age of 32 of a stroke brought on by her condition resulting from brain surgery she underwent in 1936. The surgery also changed her personality from that of a sweet, energetic and vibrant teen-ager to a sometimes sullen soul, sometimes brazen vixen.

I was only seven years old when she died, and I grew up not knowing who she was. I didn't even know her last name-only her married name, the surname of my half-sisters.

When Donna died, I and my half-brother and two half-sisters were placed in the ophanage. We were separated by adoption, and it would be 39 years before my brother and I would again reunite with our sisters.

She was married three times, to one husband twice, and bore the child of a lover.

Her genealogy includes the families of her children's paternal lines, plus the lineage of her cherished cousin, Jo Meadows. It includes the families Davis, Grooms, Ramsey, Brown, Keller, Slaughter, Meadows, Bosley, Armentrout, Corbin, Seemann, Vernon, Spaid, Dudley, Howard, Reynolds, Carr, Sullivan, Coleman, and many more family names. They are listed in the table of contents, in the index, or in the Errata.