Obituary: Green County, Wisconsin: Lois DAVIS ************************************************************************ Submitted by Ruth Ann Montgomery, May 2005 © All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm ************************************************************************ OBITUARY The quiet and joy of one of Ansley's best homes was turned into crushing sorrow on last Thursday, Jan. 24, 1901, when Lois Davis, wife of James Davis was summoned by the Angel of Death, to try the glory felecities and realities of a better world. Mrs. Davis, whose maiden name was Purington, was born in Brooklyn, Green County, Wis., June 9, 1864. She was married to James Davis, Feb. 22, 1881, almost 20 years ago, and removed to Evansville, Wis., shortly after marriage. They resided there until March 1895, when they moved and entered on a piece of land seven miles west of Ansley. When the railroad was built through this county and Ansley, they moved to town and have made this their home, with the exception of one year, ever since. Seven children have been born to this union, four girls and three boys, all being quite young except the two eldest girls who are now young ladies, to gladden their father's heart by assuming the duties of their mother, as mother of the little ones and housekeepers for father. This family is left to mourn the loss of a loving, devoted mother and a faithful wife. She joined the Methodist church in Ansley, August 30, 1891. These eight years she has shown by her example of daily walk and conversation that she was worthy to bear all that the title Christian means. In the home she tried to be in her daily duties what the terms wife and mother mean. In her associations with others she was always kind and obliging, and the large gathering at the church at her funeral was an evidence of her large circle of friends. In the church she was always found faithful to her trust and an earnest worker for the advance of the Master's Kingdom. She will be greatly missed in the home, the society and church, and in the order of R. N. A. of which she was a member and beneficary. The funeral services were held by the pastor in the Methodist church, last Saturday, after which she was laid quietly and peacefully to rest in the Ansley cemetery amidst a large concord of sorrowing friends. The funeral services were arranged and by the R. N. A., the ladies acting as pall bearers. May the father and children emulate the christian character of wife and mother and walk to her footprints, which in obedience to her Savior leads to heavenly joy and home. Brother Davis and family have the entire sympathy and love of all who knew her. The Ansley, Neb., Chronicle. Feb. 1, 1901. Reprinted in the Tribune, February 12, 1901, p. 3, col. 7, Evansville, Wisconsin