GEORGIA BIOGRAPHIES: WILLIAM DAVIS
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SOURCE:  GEORGIA BAPTISTS HISTORICAL AND BIOGRAPHICAL, Jesse
H. Campbell, (1847) 1993, published by Oldbuck Press, Inc.,
PO Box 1623, Conway, Arkansas 72034, pp. 20-23.          A
copy of this book can be purchased for $21.00 postage paid
from the publisher.

William Davis was a native of Orange County, VA, where he
was born January 7th, 1765...

At sixteen years of age, though much against the will of his
friends, Mr. Davis volunteered as a soldier of the
revolution, and was some time under the command of Gen.
Lafayette.   

In 1788 he was licensed to preach the gospel, while yet in
his native State; and was ordained in Georgia by Dozier
Thornton and Thomas Maxwell in 1793.  His education was
quite limited...

He served the church in the fork of Broad River, Elbert
County, Georgia, for twenty-three years...

In the middle of life, Mr. Davis was a person of fine
appearance, weighing up wards of two hundred pounds.  He
suffered much in after life from dropsy in the chest, and
was so debilitated as to make it necessary that he should
resign all pastoral charges....



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