OBITUARY: Mr. J.A. Davis, c1836-1895, Mitchell County, Iowa

[ Osage News-May 30, 1895 ]




                             Davis, Mr. J. A.

A very sudden death occurred in the Third Ward Saturday night.  A new comer,
Mr. J. A. Davis, with his wife and two children moved to Osage on the 7th of
May and rented a house for the purpose of making this their home, but death
came like a blighting frost and left a broken family.  J. A. Davis was an
Englishman by birth and 58 years of age.

Since the age of 9 years he lived in this country.  He was first married in
Madison Wisconsin in 1866 to Elizabeth Bromen.  His second marriage occurred
at Maquoketa, Iowa, on the 1st of this month.

Mr Davis was quite sick the past week but he was a strong, vigorous man.
Saturday night he was taken with inflammation of the bowels and died Monday
night.

The remains were taken to Mazomania, Wisconsin, yesterday for burial.  Brief
services were held at the house by Rev. E. J. Lockwood of the Methodist
church, and members of the A.O.U.W. of which he was a member acted as
pall bearers.

Mr. Davis left a young son and Mrs. Davis has one daughter.  He had been a
traveling man for many years, but came here to open a marble shop as we are
informed.  The blow is a sad one to the wife and children.


                           
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