OBIT: Mary A. (GRIFFITH) DAVIS, 1904, Johnstown, Cambria County, PA

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Cambria Freeman, Ebensburg, Pa.
Friday, December 2, 1904
Volume XXXVIII, Number 47

Mrs. Mary A. Davis

  Mrs. Mary A. Davis, one of the oldest residents of Johnstown, passed 
away at 11:30 o'clock Sunday night at the home of her daughter, Mrs. 
Sarah Williams of 520 Coleman Avenue that city.  Her death was due to 
the general decline of old age, she being in her 89th year, having been 
born April 20, 1816.
  The deceased was a daughter of Evan and Sarah Davis Griffith and was 
born in Cardiganshire, Wales, coming to this country in 1840 with her 
parents, who located first near Philadelphia, thence removing to 
Indiana county and after a short residence there to Cambria county, in 
Carroll, afterward Barr township.  In 1846 she was married to John D. 
Davis, also a native of Cardiganshire, who emigrated from Wales with 
his parents in 1844 and later also became a resident of Carroll 
township.  To this union were born the following children:  Evan of 
Clarion county; Mary Jane, married to W. W. Duncan, who died in Utah in 
1891; Sarah, widow of the late Evan Williams of Indiana county; 
Jonathan, who died in 1897 in Colorado; David and Daniel, employees of 
the Cambria Steel Company, Johnstown; Thomas of Colorado and William, 
the Ebensburg attorney.
  Mrs. Davis was an estimable woman and was a lifelong adherent of the 
Baptist faith, her husband having been for a number of years a deacon 
in the Bethesda Welsh Baptist congregation.
  The funeral took place Wednesday forenoon in this place, interment 
being made in Lloyd's cemetery.  The exercises at the grave were 
conducted by the Rev. Mr. Teasdale, pastor of the Baptist church.