The Davis family papers pertain to the lives, farming operations, and store operated on the farm of a family living in the Frolona community in Heard County, Georgia. The papers are divided into four series: Family Papers by Name (Boxes 1-7, OV Boxes 1 and 2); Topical Materials (Boxes 7-10, OV Box 2); the Store operated on the farm (Boxes 10-12), and Oversize materials (containing papers in series I. and II.)

Subject areas include farming in West Georgia (1910-1989) including an essay by Owen Cook Davis entitled, "Working on Farm, 1910 til 1986 - What I Can Remember about Farming"; education in Heard County (early 1900s); cooking and recipes; cotton production; cotton gins; the Cotton Production Credit Association (1940-1941); tenant farms and tenant farmers including, farm stores for tenant farmers, U.S. Department of Agriculture and other U.S. government agencies and programs, vocational agriculture, the Carroll Electric Membership Corporation, Gordon Military College (1944-1945), Salem Methodist Church, and ball lightning.

Types of documents in this collection include: art (Lena Davis Ridley); books, pamphlets, and other publications; a Boy Scouts cap (1940s); business correspondence; a checkbook; church bulletins; an essay - "Working on Farm, 1910 til 1986 - What I Can Remember about Farming" (Owen Cook Davis); cotton gin receipts, cotton sales receipts, governmental correspondence (1940s); handwritten records related to tenant farming; journals (Owen Cook Davis and Dock Heard Davis); ledgers and ledger pages; legal papers and correspondence; a lapel pin from the Exposition Cotton Mill (1908); maps; magazines and other publications; merchandise catalogs; newspapers and newspaper clippings - including feature stories on Owen Cook Davis (Banner-Herald, 1988, and Atlanta Journal-Constitution, 1991); notebooks; pamphlets; paper dolls; personal correspondence; personal papers; photographs; political correspondence (Eugene Talmadge, 1936); recipes and recipe books, school registers, Silver Star citation (Owen Cook Davis, Jr., 1967), store receipts, U.S. Department of Agriculture documents (1938-1944); and a will (Lewis Franklin Davis, Jr.).