Garnett Davis decided to leave the abusive, alcoholic home where she and her siblings were raised. I’m not for sure how she joined the circus and worked in some unknown gig. At the end of the season, she returned to her family home in Circleville, Ohio. Little did her folks know it was just the winter down?  While there she regaled her younger sisters with stories of the places she had been and the things she had done. The first of the road season was1936, Garnett “Guy” took her kid sister with her and left for Corpus Christi, Texas. Mom and her sister both talked about being with a wire act in  TX. Mom told me they were with "The Flying Wallendas"...... Truth or Fiction?... who knows?  Mom talked about being trained as a catcher and with all the balancing acts she trained me to do since I was an infant...well! 

Doris Jeane Davis fell in love with everything about the circus, carnival, sideshow world. My Mom was better known as Jeane or Jeanie, as Sealo called her. The girls worked the circuits during the spring, summer and fall of 1938. The picture of the two of them was taken while they were in Texas.

Again they returned to Circleville, Ohio for the Pumpkin Show. They had plans to work the show then stay the winter at the Davis farm. Their return was not warmly welcomed. Just the opposite, Guy was of legal age, but Jeane was only 18 years old. Age for emancipation at that time was 21 yrs.

Jeane’s Dad threw Guy out of the house and had Jeane arrested. She was charged with being an incorrigible delinquent. She spent the Pumpkin Show in jail in Circleville listening the music from the shows, instead of working them. The judge sentence the girl to prison until she was 21yrs of age.