Nodaway County MO Archives Obituaries.....Davis, Hiram May 29, 1880 ************************************************ 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: Scotty W. Welland swelland@prodigy.net February 8, 2006, 7:52 pm The Nodaway Democrat 3 Jun 1880 Another Old Settler Gone Hiram Davis was born in Giles county, Va., August 5, 1798, and died at the residence of his son-in-law Rev. Geo. W. Litts in Nodaway county, Mo., May 29, 1880, aged nearly eighty-two years. The subject of this notice was married to Nancy R. Bateman in the year 1817. There was born unto them ten children--eight sons and two daughters--one daughter and two sons preceded him to the better land. He immigrated with his family to Missouri in 1845 and settled in Daviess county, where he lived till the fall of 1851, when he moved to Nodaway county and settled the place known as the 16-mile-house. Here his wife died April 11, 1861. In 1862 he was married again to Mrs. Sarah Martin of Platte county. In 1863, owing to the misfortunes of war, and the actions and influence of bad men he had to leave the county to save his life, and consequently was reduced to poverty in his declining years. He returned to Nodaway county in 1866 and has since lived near his old home. He had been a faithful and consistent member of the M. E. church, south, for forty-eight years and the religion that supported him these long years sustained him to death. He died trusting in his Savior and in hope of a blessed immortality beyond the grave. His remains were followed on last Sunday by a large concourse of relatives and sympathizing friends to the Littsville cemetery where they were deposited in the tomb to await the general judgment. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/mo/nodaway/obits/d/davis40gob.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/mofiles/ File size: 2.1 Kb