Obituaries: V. M. Davis, 1935, Winn Parish, LA
Submitter: Greggory E. Davies, 120 Ted Price Lane, Winnfield, LA 71483
Source: Winnfield News-American
Date: July 26, 1935
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Heart Attack Is Cause of Death of V. M. Davis, Ruston

V. M. Davis, 78, senior partner in the Davis Brothers Lumber Company at
Ansley, dropped dead at his home in Ruston at 7 p.m. Saturday, a victim of
heart failure.

Mr. Davis, known as one of the most successful business and lumbermen in North
Louisiana, was born in Vitta County, Mississippi, and moved with his family to
Columbia County, Arkansas, while he was still a boy.  A few years later the
family moved to Prescott, Ark., and then in 1902 to Ruston.  The Davis
Brothers Lumber Company was established that same year.

In addtion to his connection with the lumber company at Ansley, Mr. Davis was
a director of numerous banks and lumber companies throughout Louisiana and
Arkansas.  His death leaves only one survivor among the original founders of
the Davis company, his older brother, John M. Davis, also of Ruston.  Other
survivors in his immediate family are the widow and four daughters, Mrs. G. E.
Lasky, Mrs. Alex T. Hunt, Mrs. Allen Barksdale, and Mrs. J. C. Ritchie, all
of Ruston.

Funeral services were held Sunday in Ruston.