Biography of William Davis, Clay Co, AR

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

William M. Davis. Among the worthy residents of Clay County, Ark., it is but
just to say that Mr. Davis occupies a conspicuous and honorable place, for he
has always been honest, industrious and enterprising, and as a result has met
with more than ordinary success. He was born in Georgia, on the 15th of August,
1842, and is a son of D. D. and Rebecca (Isbul) Davis, who were born, reared and
married in South Carolina. They moved to Georgia after their marriage, where
they remained about ten years and then located in Alabama, and afterward in
Greene County, Ark., where the father is now living. William M. Davis remained
with his father until of age, and in 1862 enlisted in the Twenty-fifth Arkansas
Infantry, Confederate States Army, and served until the spring of 1865, when he
surrendered at Wittsburgh, Ark. He was at Murfreesboro, Chickamauga, Franklin,
and the siege and surrender of Atlanta, being in about thirteen regular
engagements. After the war he was engaged in farming in Greene County, and was
married in Dunklin County, Mo., on Buffalo Island, September 19, 1867, to Miss
Martha Cochran, who was born and reared in Dunklin County, being a daughter of
Pleasant Cochran. Mr. and Mrs. Davis remained in Greene County until 1874, when
he moved to his present place in Clay County, trading his farm there for the one
on which he is now residing. He has 160 acres, with about seventy-five under
cultivation, and has built a good frame residence, stables and sheds and
otherwise greatly improved his property since locating. Mr. and Mrs. Davis are
the parents of the following children: Cynthia E., wife of James Golden;
Pleasant L., James E., William David, George F., Samuel A., Lou Z., John Henry
and Pearlie Gertrude. Two children died in early childhood. Mr. and Mrs. Davis
are members of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, and he is a Master Mason.