Edward Davis died at his home in Monroe precint Friday, aged 89 years, 2 months and 25 days. Funeral services were held at the residence Sunday afternoon, Rev. John Scott of Springfield officiating, and interment was made beside the body of his wife in the Clark cemetery. His parents are also buried there. The pall bearers were W. T. Elliott, E. P. Widmayer, C. C. Woodward, J. E. Treadway, Edward Huppers and Arch Mains. A quartette composed of J. J. Bergen, L. M. Paschal and Misses Grace Hillig and Nelia Widmayer sang appropriate hymns.
Decedent was born near Lexington, Ky., and was one of a family of thirteen children who came with their parents to this county in 1835, settling on the farm now owned by Willis Davis. He was the last of the family. His father was James Davis, and a near neighbor in the new home of the family was another James Davis, who also came from Kentucky with a family of thirteen children, and one of these children, Julia Ann, became his wife. in 1838 She died in 1900. To them nine children wero born, six of whom survive. They are L. C., of this county;. Elias of Sunset, Wash.; Perry, of Hume, Mo.; Mrs. I. J. Hula of Perkins. Okla.; Mrs. William Way of Virginia; Miss Elizabeth, at home. There are nineteen grandchildren and about as many great-greandchildren surviving.
Mr. Davis was an active and determined man, but withal kindly and a good neighbor and firm in his friend ships. After an injury in a runaway a dozen or more years before his death was not seen much in town, but all remembered "Uncle Ned" Davis with kindly thoughts. He accumulated considerable wealth and after having given each of his children a farm or its equivalent in-money, had at the time of death four hundred acrcs of fine land, which in recent years has been farmed by a grandson, Leo Davis.
Among those from out of town to at tend the funeral were Mr. and Mrs. Jules Elmore, Frank Scott, Pleasant Plains; Mr. and Mrs. George Davis. Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Davis, Beardstown; John Davis, Cornland; Mr. and Mrs. John Lovekamp, Mr. and Mrs. William Kirchner, Arenzville; H. 0. Huber and family, Philadelphia.
A newspaper article on GEO. W. DAVIS, biographical sketch is now included on this web site. GEO. W. DAVIS was son of the James Davis that was a near neighbor of James B Davis and father of Julia Ann Davis who was GEO. W. DAVIS' sister.
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