Biography of William A Davis, Clay Co, AR

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The Goodspeed Biographical and Historical Memoirs of N. E. Ark.
Biographical Information.

William A. Davis, another prominent farmer and stock raiser of Haywood Township,
Clay County, Ark., was born in the above-mentioned county, near Greenway, April
29, 1853, and is the son of Elihu Davis, a Kentuckian by birth, who was reared
in that State and in Tennessee. The father came to Arkansas when a young man and
was here married. William A. Davis grew to manhood on the home farm, remaining
with his father until twenty-seven years of age, and was married here first,
March 10, 1881, to Miss Anna Randleman, who died in September, 1881. Mr. Davis
had bought and located where he resides in 1880, and this place he has greatly
improved. He has fifty-five acres of cleared land, neat buildings, a good
orchard, and has twenty-five acres in timber, all good bottom land, one mile
from Greenway. Mr. Davis was married, in this county, December 29, 1886, to Miss
Belle Gorden, a native of Tennessee, but who was reared and educated in Clay
County, Ark. Her father, Jordan Gorden, who is now deceased, was one of the
pioneers of Arkansas. To Mr. and Mrs. Davis have been born one child, Myrtle,
who is now six months old. Mr. Davis is a member of the Masonic Order, Wisdom
Lodge No. 343, in which he is senior deacon.