Davidson was laid to rest Monday at the Davidson Burying Grounds, across Neck Road from the Rural Hill plantation house.

Neither Davidson nor her siblings married or had children, meaning her death ends the Davidson family tree, whose branches included Gen. William Lee Davidson, for whom Davidson College and, ultimately, the Town of Davidson were named.

May Davidson also worked for the N.C. State University Department of Agriculture in Raleigh; and in Washington, D.C., for U.S. Rep. Joseph W. Ervin of North Carolina, and U.S. Rep. William Colmer of Pascagoula, Miss., before working for Sam Ervin at the height of the Watergate years.