Ascension County Louisiana Archives Obituaries.....Davis, Sr., Stark L. - March 17, 1905
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source: The Donaldsonville Chief. (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current,
March 18, 1905, page 5


Death of Stark L. Davis, Sr. - Stark L. Davis, Sr., a native of Liberty, Miss., 
and a resident of this parish for the past 26 years, died suddenly at his home 
on Souvenir plantation at 2:50 o'clock yesterday afternoon, aged 60 years, 4 
months and 25 days. Mr. Davis had been in poor health for several months, but it 
was not thought that his condition was dangerous and the news of his sudden 
death proved a terrible shock to his family and legion of friends. After 
superintending work in the Souvenir fields all the morning, Mr. Davis returned 
to his home about 12 o'clock yesterday and did not complain of feeling 
particularly unwell, having taken dinner with his family and afterwards followed 
his usual custom of looking through the morning paper. About 2:30 o'clock he 
went to his room for a dose of medicine and was siezed [sic] with a sudden and 
acute attack of apoplexy, breathing his last within a very few minutes. All that 
is mortal of the lamented gentleman will be laid to rest 'neath the trees and 
the flowers in the Episcopal church conducted by Rev. Bowden.

Mr. Davis was widely known throughout the sugar region of Louisiana as an expert 
cultivator and handler of labor, and was regarded as one of the most efficient 
plantation managers in this section. Prior to his engagement as manager of the 
Souvenir plantation, of the Lemann Co., Ltd., which position he has filled with 
marked ability and success for the past 13 years, he was employed at different 
times on Southwood plantation, in Iberville parish, and Bowden and Mt. Houmas, 
in Ascension. He was a veteran of the civil war, having served with gallantry 
and distinction in the company of infantry commanded by Capt. Robertson, and was 
a member of the Knights of Honor order. Thirty-six years ago Mr. Davis led to 
the altar Miss Emily Louisa Brusle, a member of one of the leading families in 
the parish of Iberville. The union was blessed with six children, one of whom, 
Brusle Davis, died at the age of two years. The others are Dr. C. Morgan Davis, 
of Laurel, Miss.; Mrs. Al. Whiteman, of Donaldsonville; Mrs. J. Walton Gaines, 
of Amite City, and Stark L. Davis, Jr., and Miss Lillian Davis, of Souvenir. Mr. 
Davis is also survived by a brother, T.H. Davis, of Southwood plantation, and a 
sister, Mrs. W.R. Boote, of Smithfield plantation, West Baton Rouge parish. In 
death of Stark Davis, the bereaved widow and children are deprived of the tender 
care and loving protection of a devoted husband and father, and the parish of 
Ascension suffers the loss of a valuable citizen and a man of whom any community 
might well be proud. To the siricken [sic] family The Chief can but tender 
assurances of the most profound and heartfelt sympathy and express the hope that 
the void in their hearts will be assuaged by the healing hand of time.



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