Doris was then transported up state to The Girls Industrial School [GIS] in Marysville, Ohio. There she would be required to work toward getting her high school diploma and learn a trade to support herself when she was released.

Slowly her schedule became routine and she was looking forward to singing and dancing in a staged musical that the inmates were producing. It was a fundraiser for GIS that was held annually. During an afternoon rehearsal Doris became over heated and fainted. She was taken to the dispensary to be checked and the doctors discovered that Doris was several months pregnant. Arrangements were made for Doris to be transferred to Francis Chrisman Home for Unwed Mothers in Columbus. She would stay there for her prenatal care and when the baby arrived it would be placed for adoption.

With Linda's help Doris discovered, if she were married, she would be considered emancipated and be released from jail. She decided to name the baby Faith LaVaughn Davis. She sat in the rocker all night thinking how she could keep this baby. There was no father listed on the original birth certificate. Doris decided that no one was going to take her baby, she would rather die than let anyone else have her. Early in the morning, at shift change for the staff, she took the baby and was going to run away. The staff spotted her and tried to stop her from leaving with the baby. Feeling trapped, Doris ran up the stairs in the old three-story house that had been converted into a home for unwed mothers. With the baby in arms, she ran up to the attic and climbed out on the ledge around the roof. She was going to jump off and kill herself and the baby. "Get away from me, you can't take my baby". "Keep back I'll jump, I swear I'll kill us both," the desperate, frightened young girl screamed.

The staff, thinking it would be helping the situation, had called her family in Circleville and they were on their way to Columbus. The reaction was not what they had expected at all. Instead of being reassured the frightened girl, became hysterical and moved out to the very end of the roof.  The slate roof was starting to get very hot as the day started turning into another blistering day.

The adoptive family arrived fully expecting to go home with a baby girl.
When they were told what was in process, they volunteered to help and tried pleading with Doris to come in and bring the baby. They tried to reassure her, they would love and take wonderful care of the baby. This was like dumping gasoline on a fire, the explosion was immediate, Doris started screaming and holding the baby out from the roof and told the couple if they did not leave immediately, she would throw the baby to the ground and kill her, "I'd rather see her dead than with you, get out of here right now."
Nurses and doctors advised Mr.& Mrs. Jones to go get a cup of coffee and they would contact them when the crisis was under control and they had the baby safe and checked by the doctor.

After they were gone one of the nurses that Doris had developed a friendship with convinced Doris to tell them who the father was. She wasn't for sure herself, but since she had no contact with Larry since leaving Texas, it was only logical to say that Thomas Raymond Brown was the father.

One of the nurses called his home to request his help.

The phone call was the first time Ray was aware that Doris was in jail, what the charges were and there was a baby.  Edna told Ray," If your man enough to make a baby, your man enough to take care of it." Ray begged Doris to come in off the roof and bring the baby in, promising her they would get married and keep "their" baby. Most of the morning was spent with the negotiations and finally Doris agreed to leave the roof. She and the baby would stay there for the rest of the post-natal care and Ray & Edna would
make arrangements for her release and marriage.  Then on June 29,1939, Ray
went to the courthouse to get the birth certificate.  He listed himself as the father 33 yrs and had Doris's age listed as 19 yrs.  He also had the baby's name recorded as Faith LaVaughn Brown.

Doris and Ray were married on 29 July 1939, by Grandma Browns' minister in the E.U.B church, of which she was a long time member. It was a very small ceremony, with just the two of them, baby Faith, and Edna.

       By Faith Payton