Deanna Amele Davis

South Dakota
Deanna "DeDe" Amele was born in 1872 to Dan and Helen Klein. She was considered to be the sweet and shy daughter out of her siblings Theresa, Emma, Mac, Patty, and Willie.

In 1891 she married David Owen Davis and they built a house of their own on the Davis farm. There they raised several children. The first was Chellaine "Chelly"(1892). Chelly went off to college in London, England to study art. The second child, Amy(1894) married Ely Campbell at the age of sixteen. They lived in the back of Ely's hardware store in Beresford, South Dakota. Amy worked as a switchboard operator. After Amy came Fritz(1895), Clay(1898), Amanda(1899-1903), Anetta(1900), Leon(1904), Carl(1906-1906), and Julia(1909).