Davidson was born in North East, Pennsylvania to Catherine and Russell Hall. In the 1920s she wrote for
The Brownies' Book which existed for 24 monthly issues under the leadership of
Jessie Redmon Fauset. It was aimed at a multiracial group of children readers, but primarily African Americans. "Yetta Kay Stoddard" was identified as one of their "notable black writers". Davidson was a founding member of the San Diego Historical Society and she worked as a local historian in partnership with her husband, John. They were married for over sixty years and they were credited with curating the largest store of information on the history of San Diego. She has the Historian and her husband was the curator and finally Director of the Junipero Serra Museum in
Presidio Park. She was President of the
American Literary Association for ten years and vice-President of the British
Poetry Society. She died in
Point Loma, San Diego in 1964. ==Works==