Biography of T W Davis, Mississippi Co, AR

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Submitted by: Michael Brown
        Date: Sep 1998
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Bibliography: Biographical and Historical Memoirs of Eastern Arkansas.
Chicago:  Goodspeed Publishers, 1890.

T. W. Davis is a prominent and honored resident of the county
and is ranked among its successful agriculturists. He was born in
Madison County, Tenn., in 1849, being the third of five children born
to Henry and Martha M. (Holmes) Davis. [For parents' history see sketch
of H. C. Davis.] T. W. Davis was reared to a knowledge of farm life in
his native State, attending the district schools, where he received a
practical education, sufficient for the necessary purposes of every-day
life. He remained with his father engaged in cultivating the old
homestead until twenty years of age, and two years later was united in
marriage to Miss Annie Scallions, also a native Tennesseean. He
continued to till the soil in that State for three years after his
marriage. In 1873 he became occupied with the farming interests of
Lonoke County, Ark., and also attended school there for one year, Here
his wife died, leaving him with two little children to care for, but
they, too, died soon after. He first located in Mississippi County in
the year 1875, and after farming for three years in Chickasawba
Township removed to Blythesville, and opened a store, which he
successfully conducted for several years, but also continued his
farming operations. He made his first land purchase about the year 1877
and now owns 100 acres, twenty-five being in a state of cultivation.
This is a fine tract of land and is nearly all capable of a high
[p.488] state of cultivation. Mrs. M. E. Pollard, a native of East
Tennessee, became his second wife in 1880, and by her he is the father
of two children: Morris E. (deceased) and Mildred Elsie. He and wife
attend the Methodist Episcopal Church, and ever since twenty-one years
of age he has taken an active interest in politics, serving as deputy
under Sheriff Haskins. In 1885 he was elected justice of the peace,
serving two years, and in 1889 was chosen county assessor, which office
he still holds, discharging his duties in a manner above criticism, and
with a thoroughness highly creditable to all concerned.