Southampton County Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Davis, Charles Woodard, 1957 

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CHARLES WOODARD DAVIS

EX-TRIAL JUSTICE DIES TODAY AFTER PROTRACTED ILLNESS

CHARLES W. DAVIS

   News was received shortly before press time of the death in McGuire 
Hospital, Richmond, of Charles W. Davis of Courtland. 

   Mr. Davis, a veteran of World War 1, had been in ill health for several 
years. His death occurred this (Thursday) morning at 3 o'clock. 

   Born near what is now Sedley, Mr. Davis studied law at the University of 
Virginia. Prior to World War 1, he practiced for a while in Norfolk, being 
associated with the late John N. Sebrell, Jr.  After the war he located in 
Courtland, and was for several years judge of the trial justice's court. He 
was popular with his colleagues in the legal fraternity and with the public 
generally. 

   He is survived by his wife, Mrs. Mabel Wachsmuth Davis, and a son, Charles 
W. Davis, Jr.

   His body will be brought to the funeral home of W.J.M. Holland & Sons. 
Funeral arrangements have not been announced. 


RETIRED JURIST BURIED SATURDAY

   Funeral services for Charles Woodard Davis, 78, of Courtland, who died in 
McGuire Veterans Hospital, Richmond, early Thursday morning, May 2, were 
conducted Saturday afternoon at 2:30 o'clock in the Black Creek Friends 
Meetinghouse, Sedley, by his cousin, Rev. Harry A. Wellons of Victoria, 
assisted by Rev. R.L. Bailey, pastor of the Courtland Baptist Church, and 
Rev. C.A. McCormick, Jr., pastor of the Courtland Methodist Church. 

   Burial with Masonic rites was in Rosemont Cemetery, Sedley, the active 
pallbearers being Judge John K. Hutton, J. Vaughan Beale, John M. Britt, Dr. 
W. Frank Daughtrey, Jr., Mills E. Godwin, J. Edward Moyler, Samuel E. Pope 
and Richard E. Railey.  Honorary pallbearers were members of the Courtland 
Methodist Men's Bible class. 

   A native of the Sedley community, Mr. Davis was the son of William Thomas 
Davis and Eugenia Butler Davis of  Southampton County and the husband of Mrs. 
Mabel Wachsmuth Davis of Courtland. He had been in ill health for the past 
three years. 

   After graduating from Gilford College he attended Haverford College, 
Haverford, Pa., following which he taught for several years in the Oak Grove 
Academy in Maine and Pacific College in Forest Grove, Ore.  He then studied 
law at the University of Virginia, from which he received his degree in 1912. 
Thereafter he practiced law in Norfolk until the United States entered World 
War 1, during which he served in the Army, attaining the rank of Captain.  He 
began the practice of law in Courtland in 1919. 

   From 1928 to 1932 he was a member of the House of Delegates from 
Southampton County.  In 1934 he was appointed judge of the county's trial 
justice court, a position he held until 1954, when failing health forced his 
retirement. 

   He was a member of the Black Creek Friends Meeting; Franklin Lodge No. 51, 
Knights of Pythias; Courtland Masonic Lodge No. 85, of which he was a past 
master; the American Legion, the Southampton County Bar Association, and 
Virginia Bar Association. He was a charter member of the Courtland Ruritan 
Club, Boy Scout committeeman of the Old Dominion Area Council, and teacher of 
the Charles W. Davis Bible Class in the Courtland Methodist Sunday School for 
more than 30 years. 

   Besides his wife he is survived by a son, Charles William Davis, USAF, 
stationed in Germany; four sisters, Mrs. J.J. Baker and Mrs. R.B. Hancock of 
Newport News, Mrs. T.J. Jarratt of Jarratt, and Mrs. Patricia Raiford of 
Richmond; and nieces and nephews. 


Charles Woodard DAVIS, of Courtland, retired trial justice, 
Army veteran of WW-I, 
b. near Sedley, d. 2 May 1957, Richmond, age 78, 
interred in Rosemont Cemetery*, Sedley, 4 May 1957, 
"The Tidewater News" (Franklin, VA), May 2, 1957; 
"The Tidewater News" (Franklin, VA), May 9, 1957 

*Southampton County Historical Society {SCHS} Cemetery Project, 
   Rosemont list (S-19): 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/southampton/cemeteries/rosemont.txt 


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