Jackson County, Ohio

Jackson County Obituaries

David C. Davis

The subject of this brief tribute was the son of David M. and Catherine Lewis Davis, born and reared in this locality and was the third of a family of ten children, nine of whom maturing into full vigor of sturdy manhood and womanhood and is survived by all of them except on sister, Margaret.

In his early adolescence the ven tenor of rural life so impressed him that he never strayed far from his nativity. The magic grandeur of his native hills, the majesty of its vales, its murmuring forests, its babbling brooks, were to him tokens of supreme contentment, inspirations of rustic virtue, in stilling rigorous love of nature, fixing thereby his future life-work, that of agriculture.

Having attained his majority he was united in marriage on September 27, 1883 to Mary Davis, daughter of Jesse and Jane Davis, who also is a native product of Jackson County. This union was blessed with nine children, six of of whom survive him. Three children having preceded hiim in death, viz: Jennie, Emmett and Margaret.

He was possessed with that charming gift of song and its culture and utility were to him a source of festive joy and gratification and was never happier that when engaged with friends and kindred in song, worship and recitals. This song, though hushed as it were, still survives, echoing in the hearts and memory of family and friends.

He was a lifelong member of this church, holding steadfast to the precept and parental mandates taught him in his youth at his mother's knee. His duties and obligations to his state and sovereignty, he acquitted with fidelities with rectitude and meekness but never with clamor.

Being an indulgent parent, his chief solicitude was his family's welfare, ever willing to sacrifice in their behalf, and was equally matched by the tender care and patient service of this devoted wife and daughter.

Patient, plodding service, filial rectitude clear and concise conception of right from wrong, these were his heritage partly by inherent right and partly by personal achievement. Such briefly noted are a few of the salient milestone in the life of David C. Davis which was fafted into being on the sun-lit day of May 8, 1856 and was terminated in the gloom of Jan. 11, 1931, completing a life span of 74 years, 8 months, 3 days.

Jackson Sun-Journal, Jackson OH; January 20, 1931

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