Mrs. Rebecca C. Davis Obit - 1912 - Rockingham Co., VA ************************************************************************ USGENWEB ARCHIVES NOTICE: These electronic pages may NOT be reproduced in any format for profit or presentation by any other organization or persons. Persons or organizations desiring to use this material, must obtain the written consent of the contributor, or the legal representative of the submitter, and contact the listed USGenWeb archivist with proof of this consent. ************************************************************************ SOURCE: Harrisonburg Daily News, Harrisonburg, Virginia (Tuesday, January 23, 1912) HEADLINE: Mrs. Rebecca Davis Dead. Mother of Misses Martha and Jennie Davis Passes Away. ARTICLE: Mrs. Rebecca C. Davis, widow of Charles K. Davis, died at her home on South High street at 1:30 o’clock this morning. Mrs. Davis has been in frail health for the past four years. As a result of a fall she received about ten days ago, she was confined to her room and about a week ago she contracted bronchial trouble which was the immediate cause of her death. Though her condition has been critical for several days, Mrs. Davis was conscious until about three hours before her death. Mrs. Davis was born in Mifflin county, Pa. in 1832, and had she lived until April she would have been 80 years old. She was Miss Rebecca Cummins before her marriage. Mr. and Mrs. Davis moved to Harrisonburg several years after the Civil War, and about a year later her husband, Charles K. Davis, died in 1869 while on a visit to their former home in Pennsylvania. Mrs. Davis is survived by one son: William C. Davis (one word unreadable) of New York; and two daughters, Martha Davis, a teacher in the High School, and Miss Jennie Davis, both at home. Another daughter, Miss Georgie Davis, died some years earlier. Mrs. Davis had been a faithful member of the Presbyterian church since her childhood. She was a woman of lovely Christian character, a sweet disposition, devoted to her home and family and leaves a host of friends to mourn her loss. Awaiting the arrival of Mrs. Davis’ son from New York, no funeral arrangements have yet been made.