BIO: Joseph DAVIS, Clearfield County, PA
 
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From Twentieth Century History of Clearfield County, Pennsylvania,
and Representative Citizens, by Roland D. Swoope, Jr.,
Chicago: Richmond-Arnold Publishing Company, 1911, page 721.
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  JOSEPH DAVIS, one of the well known, highly respected and responsible citizens 
of Penn township, who carries on general farming, owns 147 acres of valuable 
land which lies in Penn township, one mile northwest of Grampian, Pa.  He was 
born June 9, 1836, on what is now known as the Pentz farm, near Grampian, and is 
a son of Joseph and Rebecca (Moore) Davis.
  Joseph Davis, Sr., was born near Tyrone, Pa., a son of Elisha Davis who came 
to Pennsylvania from Wales.  Joseph Davis spent the early part of his life in 
Sinking Valley and then came to Penn township and purchased 150 acres, clearing 
about half of this property by his own industry and residing on it until his 
death.  He married Rebecca Moore, who, like himself, had been reared in the 
Society of Friends and they belonged to this religious body all their lives.  
They were among the early members at Grampian, Pa., and their ashes rest in the 
cemetery connected with the church at that place.
  Joseph Davis was the eighth born in a family of ten children.  His schooling 
was in Penn township, where he made the most of his opportunities and even 
attended one term after he had reached his twenty-first year.  Farming and 
working in the woods at lumbering occupied his time until he purchased his 
present farm.  He is one of the progressive and well informed farmers of Penn 
township and is a charter member of Penn Grange.
  Mr. Davis was married in 1862, to Elizabeth Wall, who died May 4, 1909, her 
burial being in the Friends' cemetery at Grampian.  She was a daughter of 
William and Sarah Wall, of Penn township.  Five children were born to Mr. and 
Mrs. Davis, namely:  Truman, who married Jennie Kester, a daughter of Lewis and 
Alice Kester, and they have six children - Alice, Joseph L., Beulah, Dorsey, 
Harold and Wilfred; Sarah Ann, who married W. I. Wall, of Grampian, and they 
have four children - Earl, Lena, Eva and Carl; Mary, who is deceased, was the 
wife of Fred Smith and she is survived by three children - Elizabeth, Lulu and 
Clair; and Eva and Cora, twins, the former of whom is the wife of Clyde Kendall, 
and the latter the wife of Bruce Kendall.
  Joseph Davis is a prominent member of the Society of Friends and in 1904 was 
sent as a delegate to a convention of this church held at Toronto, Canada.  In 
politics he is a Republican and has served as auditor, treasurer and school 
director in Penn township.  He is a stockholder in the Curwensville National 
Bank at Curwensville, Pa.