Caldwell County KyArchives Obituaries.....Carter, Mary Ann Davis September 16, 1884
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newspaper clipping September 16, 1884
Mary Ann (Lewis) Davis was born on March 24, 1819 in Caldwell County, 
Kentucky.  She was the daughter of Buford Lewis who came to Caldwell County 
from Lexington, Kentucky as a pioneer and settled on a farm about 3 miles East 
of Princeton, Kentucky. At this place Mary Ann was born and raised.  On the 
16th of June, 1840 she was married to Caswell Davis, and they settled near her 
father's home.  In 1850 they moved to Christian County, Illinois. In 1854 she 
had a spell of sickness known as "milk sickness" from which it is believed she 
never recovered.  In 1858 they returned to their native state and located on a 
farm where Col. William Carter now lives. In later years they purchased a farm 
lying on Smith's Mill Road, 4 miles north of Princeton, and settled for life.
There on the 8th of September she was siezed by a violent congestion of the 
lungs, and after a few days of suffering, she closed her eyes in death, and 
now sleeps sweetly in Jesus this 16th day of September, 1884. Mrs Davis was 
the Mother of two sons and one daughter, (Mary F. Davis) who died nearly 20 
years or more ago.  With the two son, she leaves seventeen grandchildren, one 
great gradchild, and an aged husband to mourn her loss.  Nothing it sees will 
soothe their grief, except the hope of reunion in a brighter world.

Mrs. Davis united with the Christian Church at Franklin, Monroe County, 
Illinois in 1857 under the preaching of Elder John S. Sweeney, now a resident 
of Paris, Kentucky, and has lived a consistent member ever since.  In the 
closing scene of her earthly pilgrimage she expressed a plentitude of faith, 
and willingness to die, which assures us that she has the crown of the 
righteous, and her travels on earth were pleasing to the Lord.  She was very 
patient in her sufferings and conscious until the last day of her life; she 
bore the pains of death with great fortitude and doubtless is regenerated in a 
brighter sphere.  Mrs. Davis was a woman of unusual intelligence.  Her 
influence over her children, relatives and friends was remearkable.  Her 
pleasant countenance carried sunshine where ever she went; her manners, 
hospitality and good nature are pictured on the memory of her neighbors, never 
to fade.  It is a great loss to give up so dear a friend but when we think of 
the joys and pleasures of a celestrial kingdom, we shoud be consoled with the 
assurance that she is in possession of its' eternal blessings!

Mrs. Davis was very extensively known, and her firends will all regret to hear 
of her death.  She will be missed by them all beyond measure, and expecially 
in the family circle.  We sypathize with the husband and children in their 
loss, offer a petition that they may be re-united in Heaven.  On the evening 
after her death her remains were laid away in the family cemetery in the 
presence of a large audience, to await the resurection morn.  Peach to her 
ashes!
Farewell friends! Yet not farewell, For where I am you soon shall dwell.  I am 
gone before your face, A moment's time a little space.  When ye come where I 
have stepped, Ye will wonder why ye wept;  Ye will know by wise love taught, 
That here is all and there is naught.

The bereaved husban and sons are deeply grafeful to the ladies of the 
neighborhood for their kindness and attention to the deceased during her last 
illness.

Additional Comments:
Clipping among the papers of her great great grandaughter Mary (Baker) 
Hollowell.

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