Labette County KS Archives Obituaries.....Davis, Charles Yeager September 3, 1918
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Chetopa Clipper, September 11, 1918
"Charles Yeager Davis was born in Beaver county, Pennsylvania on October 26th, 
1846. In his youth he moved with his parents to the State of Ohio, and a few 
years later to the State of Illinois.  At the age of about twenty years be came 
to Chetopa, Kansas and engaged in the stage and livery business.  About two 
years later he took a claim of one hundred and sixty acres about five miles 
southwest of Chetopa, where he lived until 1899, at which time he moved to the 
home place in the northern part of this city.

When Mr. Davis first arrived in Chetopa he was without money but had an ample 
supply of health and energy.  In a few years, and in spite of grasshopper and 
poor crops, he was able to pay the indebtedness against his farm and improve it 
so that it was a most comfortable home.  It has never had a mortgage or lien of 
any kind against it from that day to this.

On the 25th day of March, 1872, Mr. Davis married Miss Louella Keeler, eighteen 
year old girl from Pine Bluff, Arkansas, who shared with him all the trials, 
privations and hardships and there were many of pioneer days and who alone 
nursed him through several spells of sickness and up to the very moment he 
passed into the unknown on September 3rd, 1918.

Besides the widow, he leaves four children: viz:  Mrs. Beatrice Hare of 
Oroville, Washington, Harry G. Davis, of Muskogee, Okla., Mrs. Mamie Bush of 
Yakima, Washington and Mrs. Leta Berg of Spokane, Washington.  All of said 
children were born on the old farm and received their early education in the 
country at what is now known as the Cook school.  He also leaves seven 
grandchildren and five great-grandchildren.

Mr. Davis endeavored to follow, as his life time friends and neighbors will 
verify, three mottos:
     First: "Honesty is the best policy."
     Second: "Owe no man and you will always have friends."
     Third. "Do unto others as you would have them do unto you."

 



Additional Comments:
DEATH NOTICE. "Chetopa Clipper", Chetopa, Labette County, Kansas.
September 4, 1918.  Page 1, Column 3: "Mr. C.Y. Davis, Dead. Obituary next 
week."   OBITUARY. September 11, 1918. Page 4, Column 3.
[Photocopy from research at Kansas State Historical Society 13 Jul 1988 in 
files of Steve Harrison. Copy also in Orton family bible.]




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