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E. R. "Bus" Davey grew up in London, Ontario. In 1943 he was posted to the Royal Air Force Banff Strike Wing (Scotland) as a member of the 404 squadron of the Royal Canadian Air Force. On October 2, 1944, piloting Beaufighter "Q" (#LV 189), Davey died as a result of a mid-air collision with Beaufighter F.

• Pickles, John D. "Weatherly, Frederic Edward (1848–1929)." Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Online ed. Ed. Lawrence Goldman. Oxford: OUP, 2004.

• George M. Cohan, Twenty Years on Broadway and the Years It Took to Get There (New York: Harper, 1925).

• William Christopher Handy. Blues: An Anthology: Complete Words and Music of 53 Great Songs
• --. Book of Negro Spirituals
• --. Father of the Blues: An Autobiography. Ed. Arna Bontemps New York; Macmillan, 1941.
• --. Unsung Americans Sing
• --. Negro Authors and Composers of the United States

• Taylor, Frank C., and Gerald Cook. Alberta Hunter: A Celebration in Blues. McGraw-Hill, 1987.

Lucille Bogan, (nee Armstrong) was born in Amory, Mississippi, on April 1, 1897 and grew up in Birmingham, Alabama. She married Nazareth Bogan, with whom she had two children. Bogan, who also used the pseudonym Bessie Jackson, was a blues writer and performer, known for her explicit lyrics, which covered topics such as sex, prostitution and alcoholism.