Thelma H. Davis (1872-1962) was at least part owner of the land that became the Stonehurst Manor tract in 1923. I couldn’t glean much about our subject’s early years, except that she was born Helga Ottilia Johansdotter in Sweden and was allegedly residing in San Francisco in 1896 when the Swedish government was trying to track her down. (Her mother had just died and she was owed an inheritance.) The next time she turned up was in the 1904 Los Angeles City Directory as Mrs. Thelma H. Howe, a stenographer at the law firm of Hansen, Davis & Wilson. (“Hansen” was Charles M. Hansen, who perished that very year: his brother Homer’s acreage would become Sunland.) I found no records of her first marriage or when “Helga” became “Thelma” but I can tell you that in 1906 she married her boss: the recently widowed Ferman Enes Davis (1868-1938). Nearby Fenway Street was originally called Ferman Avenue in hubby’s honor. The Davises had one son (Charles) and lived in Silver Lake.
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