George Washington Davis, born on September 14, 1898, at Abe Springs in Calhoun County, the youngest of 13 children. Seven children died during a yellow fever epidemic. The family was told if they moved to saltwater, they would not be exposed to the disease. They gathered the remaining children and their few belongings and moved to Allenton where the family homesteaded.

George grew up oystering and fishing on East Bay. At age 17, he got his captain's license and began his first real job of running the mail boat from Lynn Haven to Farmdale. He was mechanically inclined and acquired his chief stem engineer's license. He became chief engineer on the dredge Blackwater. The Blackwater dug the intercoastal wayerway from Lake Wimico to Port Arthur, TX.

In 1923 , George met and married Lucy Davis, a stepdaughter of Peter Parker. Together they had seven children. In 1926 he came back to Parker and opened a grocery store. Hard times during the depression led to the demise of this venture. He then raised poultry and fished to survive the depression. When Tyndall became active in the late 1930's, he went to work there. In 1942, he began working at the Wainright Shipyard as a steamfitter and trial run engineer on the liberty ships. In 1946, he built his first party fishing boat, a 65 foot vessel, in the back yard. He was very innovative in the tourist fishing business, introducing the first deisel powered boat, the first twin screw and triple screw party fishing boat, ship to shore radio, sonar sounding machine, and loran. He worked in this business the remainder of his life and died December 24, 1960, leaving the family business to his three sons.

His two favorite sayings were: "Right's right and right don't wrong anybody." and "You have to make hay while the sun shines." He practiced what he preached.