Campbell County TN Archives Obituaries.....Calvin, John May 15, 1921
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The LaFollette Press May 25, 1921
OBITUARY



These few lines will announce the sad intelligence of the death of John Calvin 

Davis, which occurred at the Knoxville General hospital Sunday May 15. The 

deceased was born near the present city of Jellico, May 17th, 1879, which made 

him forty-two years and eight days old at the occurrence of his untimely death. 

His aged mother had proceeded him only a short time;" Thus he goeth to meet 

her." He leaves a wife, seven children, and a host of relatives and friends to 

mourn their loss. The immense crowd attending his funeral was a manifestation 

of the esteem he was held by his neighbors, and by surrounding communities. The 

services were conducted by Revs. Leonard White, R.P. Wilson of this place and 

John P. White of Jellico. The discourses were burdened with the good deeds of 

the deceased; but a clam of consolation for the irreparable loss the community 

has sustained. Tine, alone can heal the wound. He was a tireless worker for the 

up building of the church and community, and his memory will live in the minds 

of generations yet to be. He was a stalwart Baptist; but believed that religion 

was broader than all denominations. He gave the best years of his life to the 

Christian ministry - the noblest of all professions. No monument reared to the 

memory of man could testify of greater virtues than that the departed had 

served the Deity without stint of limit. No eulogy eloquent with the noblest 

deeds of our departed ones could carry greater consolation than that the dead 

were the chosen elect of the God who doeth all things well. Death is the 

unfathomed mystery of the ages. It visits the Emperor in his castle and the 

peasant in his hovel. It walks the high ways of the earth, both land and sea. 

It is the still voice of enraptured Deity calling from the realms of 

immortality. sequel of a rational existence. Life, too is the unchartered 

signal of a rational existence. Like the butterfly-winged emblem of glory, it 

walks the star-lit isles of the universe and passes to the great unknown. It is 

not all of life to live, and not all the death to die. Hope, the guiding star 

of destiny, twinkles yonder above the bow of promise, and consoles mankind in 

the last hour.

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The LaFollette Press

LaFollette, Campbell County, Tennessee

May 25, 1921

Vol. XII  No. 25

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