 These include The Preston Davie Collection of Early Americana housed at University of North Carolina.From his first marriage to Emily H. Bedford, which ended in divorce, he was the father of a son and daughter, E. T. Bedford Davie and Mrs. Emily Davie Kornfeld.In 1930, he married his second wife Eugenie Mary "May" Ladenburg (1895–1975), who was a prominent activist in the Republican Party.