Osage County KS Archives Obituaries.....DAVIES, Mrs. J.M.  August 11, 1927
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The Scranton Gazette
Osage County
Thursday
August 11, 1927

Mrs. J.M. Davies Dead.

Mrs. J.M. DAVIES, 72, resident of Kansas since 1830, living in Pittsburg for the
past twenty two years, died at Mt. Carmel hospital at 8 o'clock last night. She
had been sick since Monday afternoon taking ill at the home of her son, Ted
Davies at Parsons. She was brought from Parsons by another son, Milton Davies,
of Pittsburg, and removed to Mt. Carmel where she died. She had been in failing
health for several months.
Mrs. Sarah M. Davies was born in South Wales, in the British Isles August 10,
1854. She came to this country with her husband, J.M. Davies, shortly after
their marriage, and setteled in Galveston, Texas, where both she and Mr. Davies
were in business. She came to Kansas with Mr. Davies in 1880 and settled at
Emporia, where she was in the millinery business. She then moved to Scranton,
Kansas and was in the same business with her husband.
>From Scranton they moved to Iola where they stayed for a short time and then
came to Pittsburg 22 years ago. Here Mr. and Mrs. Davies entered the art
business, and operated a store at 812 North Broadway for a number of years. Mrs.
Davies was a pioneer woman in the millinery business in Kansas.
She was a widow, J.M. Davies having died here in 1918. She was actively engaged
in the millinery business up to the time she was taken to the hospital shortly
before her death.
She is survived by two sons, Ted Davies, of Parsons, at whose home she was taken
ill, and Milton Davies, of Pittsburg, 410 North Walnut, who teaches music here;
and one foster daughter, Mrs. Nellie BETHEL of Kansas City.
Mrs. Davies was a member of the Methodist Church here and had been a member of
the church most of her life joining when she was a small girl. --Pittsburg
Headlight. 


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