MARSHALL COUNTY, TN - BIOGRAPHIES - George W. Davis
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GEORGE W. DAVIS, one of the leading liverymen of Lewisburg, was born on a farm
in Marshall County, in 1855, and received a common school education.  He is a
son of Martin and Lizzie (Talley) Davis.  The father was a farmer and a
staunch Democrat.  He died in 1866.  The mother was a member of the Baptist
Church, and died while she was yet comparatively young.  At the age of
nineteen the subject of this sketch, after tending bar some time, opened a
saloon in Lewisburg, in 1877, and about five years later engaged in the livery
business.  He has been quite successful and is engaged in that business at the
present time.  In 1880 he was united in marriage to Mollie E. Richie, and to
this union was born one child, Mabel C.  In 1885 our subject's first stable
was burned and the same year he built the large brick that he now has.  In
politics Mr. Davis is, like his father, an ardent Democrat.  For nine years he
has been in business in Lewisburg and has succeeded well.  He has a good
stable well stocked.


Surnames: Davis, Richie, Talley
Source:  " The Goodspeeds History of Tennessee, 1886."