Charles’s death devastated the whole family. Though of all family members, Davis, Jr. took it the worst. Feeling as if he had nothing to live for, he found solace in his toddler granddaughter Diana. In fact, he spoiled Diana, taking her and her alone to the store at Myrick to let her buy anything up to a dollar. Even Rubye Faye, still a child at this time, was left at home. Ruby Lee stayed strong throughout the years to pass.
The Promise
John Harold ended up being deployed to Europe the year after Charles. Before he went though, Ruby Lee and Davis, Jr. made him promise he would figure out what exactly happened to Charles. When John Harold went to Europe, his path would take him through London and Paris on his mission to get to his brother. He and a Jeep driver would travel across France to Limey.
Once John Harold got there, he discovered what happened. Charles had been injured in combat. Sent to a battlefield hospital, he would die in the hospital from a bomb dropped on the structure. The lower half of his body was mutilated. John Harold was candid to his parents about the intricacies of Charles’s death when he came home. Davis, Jr. appreciated that, though he never got over the death of his son. John Harold would never tell Diana how badly damaged Charles’s body was because of how much it hurt him.