Macon-Randolph County MO Archives Biographies.....Davis, Samuel C. April 3, 1795 - ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/mo/mofiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: J. Robison normadeplume@windstream.net June 14, 2011, 1:41 pm Source: History of Randolph and Macon Counties, Missouri Author: Anonymous From 'History of Randolph and Macon Counties, Missouri' by Anonymous 1884 REV. SAMUEL C. DAVIS (Deceased) To no old citizen in the south-western part of Randolph county, and, indeed, throughout the surrounding country, is the name that heads this sketch an unfamiliar one, and the memory of him who bore it is as reverently cherished as he himself was widely and well known. Here he lived, and on the same farm, for over 40 years, and among the people of Randolph and Howard counties he resided for a period of nearly three-score years. For 55 years he was an earnest, faithful and more than ordinarily useful minister of the gospel in the Cumberland Presbyterian Church, and having reached the ripe and honored old age of 83 years and past, his spirit at last took its flight to heaven, of which he had so long and nobly preached, and his mortal remains now rest in honor and veneration among the people with whom, practically, his whole life was spent. The career of Samuel C. DAVIS was not one that.... chivalrous minded Virginia gentleman. He was a son of Robert DAVIS, one of the best men of Rockingham county, and was born in that county April 3, 1795, being the seventh in a family of eight children. Reared in his native county, he early decided to cast his fortunes with the great country beyond the Mississippi, and away back in 1819, became a pioneer settler in Howard county, Mo. Mr. DAVIS had served in the War of 1812, under ... Prior to this, December 29, 1815, he was married in Virginia, to Miss Mary HERRING, of Rockingham county. Mr. DAVIS settled near Roanoke in Howard county, where he lived some 17 years, after which he removed to the place in Randolph county, on which he spent the remainder of his life. .... Mr. DAVIS' first wife died December 16, 1855. For 40 years she had been all that a true and devoted wife could be .... Nine children were the fruits of their long and happy married life, namely: James H., who died in boyhood; Matlilda H., who died in 1876, the wife of Samuel BURTON; Mary, now Mrs. W. I. Ferguson; Nancy M., who died in 1873, the wife of J. D. BURTON; Virginia, now the widow of Thomas TAYLOR; Rebecca F., who died in maidenhood; Sarah A., who died in 1866, the wife of William H. JOHNSTON; Robert H., who died in boyhood, and Martha J., now the wife of A. Bradsher, Clifton. Mr. DAVIS was married May 5, 1857, to Mrs. Harriet, the widow of David LITTLE. She was born in Rockingham county, Va., and was a daughter of Paul SHRECKHISE. She has one child by her last marriage, Samuel C., and is still living on the old homestead.... File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/mo/macon/bios/davis165gbs.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/mofiles/ File size: 3.3 Kb