[3] He was the owner of the Perry County Herald in New Augusta in 1934-1935, the manager of the Mississippi Press Association, and the news editor of the Gulf Post Guide in Gulfport in 1936, only to return to the McComb Enterprise as advertising manager.
[3] He was the state editor of the Jackson Daily News from 1938 to 1940, when his National Guard unit was mobilized for World War II.
[3] His artwork can be seen on the campus of Mississippi College in Clinton,[2] and at the Delta State University Art Center in Cleveland.
[6] McDavid died of respiratory failure on March 12, 1998, in Jackson, Mississippi, at age 86.
McDavid Journalism Conference of the Mississippi Press Association was named in his memory.