Chambers County AlArchives Photo Tombstone.....Davis, Frances Cornelia Holt
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Cemetery:           Hopewell Cemetery
Name:               Frances Cornelia Holt Davis

Date Of Photograph: November 2020
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There was a bit of mystery in the Williams Plot at Hopewell Cemetery. There was 
this one grave among the family graves of Homer and Nim Williams that we were 
not sure of. It was marked with a large and beautiful fieldstone. In fact, my 
grandfather thought it was the grave if his grandmother, Charlie Holt Williams, 
but it was actually a generation farther back.

I was up at the cemetery late one summer afternoon cutting the grass with my 
father. I was cutting in our family plot when I could clearly see the name 
carved on the stone, “F C Davis.” I was amazed. We never knew that there was 
anything carved on the stone, but there it was, finally visible. The sun was 
hitting the stone at just the perfect angle to reveal the fading markings. This 
is a great tip to read a hard to read tomb stone. Visit the cemetery at 
different times of the day to see if the angle of the sun can help. You can also 
pour water over the stone. Sometimes that does the trick.

Frances was the daughter of Alexander Howard and Louisa Woods Howard. She 
married Charles W. Holt on March 5, 1854. Charles died in the Civil War. Frances 
remarried John Davis on February 6, 1866. Frances’ children are Ancy, Charlie 
Ophelia Holt Williams, Joseph Alexander Holt, Willis Haynes, Theresa “Resie” 
Belle Horne, Sara Brewer, John Davis, Jr., and Minnie Lee Jones (Charlie Lee 
Jones mother.)

John Davis is buried in an unmarked grave beside this stone. Frances’ daughter, 
Charlie and Charlie’s husband, Timothy Powell “Babe” Williams, are also buried 
in unmarked graves beside John Davis.


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