Biography of William A. Davis - Craighead Co, AR

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SOURCE: Biographical and Historical Memoirs of Northeast Arkansas.
Goodspeed Publishers, 1889.

page 328

William A. Davis, a prominent merchant of Bay Siding, is a native of
Georgia, born September 7, 1843, and is a son of John and Margaret
(Lewis) Davis, natives of South Carolina. The parents passed their
youth in their native State, and soon after their marriage moved to
Georgia, and there reared their family. The father engaged very
successfully in farming until his death, in 1857. His wife died about
eighteen months later. W. A. Davis. the immediate subject of this
sketch, [p.328] attained his majority in Georgia, and became familiar
in his boyhood home with intelligent farming. In 1873 he came to
Craighead County, Ark., and located on Crowley's Ridge, where he
engaged in farming until 1888. He then moved to Bay Siding. purchased a
lot, erected a building and engaged in merchandising. He keeps a good
stock of general merchandise, and by polite attention, energy and fair
dealing, has established a good custom, doing an annual business of
about $12,000. In the fall of 1888 he was married in this county to
Miss Jane Tyler, born and reared in this State. She died eighteen
months later leaving one child, Henry, now a lad of seven years. In
1884 he selected as his second wife, Laura Martin, a native of
Arkansas, and this union has been blessed by two children: Josephine
and Lura. Mrs. Davis is a member of the Baptist Church, and is active
and zealous in all church work.