Davis, Clifton Felix; Brenham, TX; now Caddo Parish, Louisiana Submittted by Mike Miller ********************************************** Copyright. All rights reserved. http://usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://usgwarchives.net/la/lafiles.htm ********************************************** Davis, Clifton Felix, attorney-at-law, Shreveport, La., was born near Brenham, Tex., Feb. 13, 1868, son of James Lewis and Sarah Roxana (Eppes) Davis, the former of whom was born in Virginia and the latter in Mississippi. The Davis family is one of the oldest Virginia families of English descent. James Lewis Davis, the father, came to Louisiana while yet quite a young man, and prior to the Civil war. The Eppes family is also of Virginia. Sarah Roxana Eppes was a daughter of John Wayles Eppes. The father of Clifton Felix Davis served as a surgeon in the Confederate army until the time of the surrender. He followed the profession of a practicing physician throughout life. After the war he lived a short time in Texas, but returned to Lake Providence, La., in 1870, and continued a resident of that place for many years. His death occurred at San Antonio, Tex., to which place he had gone a few years before. The son, Clifton Felix, passed his boyhood and youth at the town of Lake Providence, where he attended the public schools. Later he took a classical course at an academy in Florida, and returning to Lake Providence became connected with a law office and began the study of law. He was admitted to the bar at the latter place in the year 1892, and continued to reside and practice there until 1907, when he removed to Shreveport. In 1900 he was appointed to fill the unexpired term of his father-in-law, Judge Field Farrar Montgomery, as district judge. In 1897 Judge Davis was married to Miss Mary Walton Montgomery, a daughter of Judge Field Farrar Montgomery, prominent lawyer and jurist of north Louisiana. Three children have been born to their union. Judge Davis is a Master Mason, and a member of the Woodmen of the World. Though not at this time directly interested in agriculture, he was for a number of years prominently identified with that pursuit in connection with the law, and is fully alive to the interests of the agricultural classes and loyal to them. He is a man of broad learning and liberal views, deeply appreciative of the obligations of the citizen in public affairs and at all times ready to ally himself with any really commendable movement looking toward the betterment of living conditions or the conservation of the people's interests. Judge Davis has comec into prominence in Louisiana entirely through his own activities and few men are more highly esteemed by the people among whom they live and exert their talents. Source: Louisiana: Comprising Sketches of Parishes, Towns, Events, Institutions, and Persons, Arranged in Cyclopedic Form (volume 3), pp. 119-120. Edited by Alcée Fortier, Lit.D. Published in 1914, by Century Historical Association.