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Jeremiah Lashone Davis was born September 14,1975 in Mobile,Alabama. The son of Willie & Inez Atwood and the youngest of 9 children (6 boys and 3 girls), Davis grew up in Orange Grove Projects. This was a rough and tough housing community in downtown Mobile. It served as motivation for Davis and taught him how to be mentally and physically tough. Jeremiah Davis attended Murphy High School were he lettered in varsity basketball as a junior and senior. During the 1993 season, he averaged 19.6 points and 11 rebounds per game as a senior. He was a first team All-City and second team All-State performer. In August of 1993, Davis accepted a scholarship to Faulkner State Community College in Bay Minette, Alabama where he earned an Associates degree of Science and minoring in Graphic Arts. Davis average about 10 points and 6 rebounds game for a star-studded junior college basketball team. This earned him a scholarship in 1996 to Division II's University of West Alabama. Things didn't quite work out at the University of West Alabama, so in 1997 Davis tranferred to NAIA Selma University where Davis' game excelled. He average 20 points, 4 assists,and 7 rebounds a game. This earned him first team All-Conference honors and nominations for newcomer of the year in the conference as a junior. On October 7, 1997, Jeremiah Davis became the father to J'miah Simone Davis. Davis then returned home work and attended the University of South Alabama to complete his studies in business management. Davis soon went into coaching. He served as an assistant varsity boys basketball coach at Shaw high school,as the freshman boys basketball coach at McGill-Toolen for 4 years, and as the junior varsity basketball coach at Davidson High School. Today, Davis works as the technology person at Booker T. Washington Middle School in Mobile, Alabama. He is married to Katina Smith-Davis, a reading coach/teacher at Florence Howard Elementary School in Mobile,Alabama.