Jada M. Davis

Jada Davis was born on a farm in West Texas farm, one of eleven children in a very poor family. As a child, he picked cotton to help support his family. From a young age he loved to read, and as a teenager he made some extra money by writing short pieces for magazines and newspapers. In the 1930s he attended a small college but left to enlist in the U.S. Army, where he trained with a horseback unit. When …