Greenbrier County, West Virginia    Biography: Charles L. DAVIS

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Transcribed and submitted by Valerie Crook, <vfcrook @earthlink.net>, 1998.
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CHARLES L. DAVIS - is a son of General A. W. G. DAVIS, of Kentucky, who 
married Rachel STUART, of Greenbrier County. The home of their wedded 
life was in this county, and here the subject of this sketch was born 
April 4, 1840.  his father is no longer living.  Runnels DAVIS, brother
of Charles L., was a Confederate soldier, captain of Company B. 19th 
Virginia Infantry, and he received a wound at Cedar Creek from which
he died.  Charles L. DAVIS was also a Confederate soldier, serving in 
the 27th Virginia Infantry, in the "Stonewall Brigade." He was in active
service two years, and then losing his health was detailed post 
quartermaster, and stationed at South Carolina. He was engaged in the 
four days fight at Manassas, the seven days fight at Richmond, with 
Milroy on Shenandoah Mountain, and also in the battle of Cedar Mountain.  
At the old STUART residence in Greenbrier County, Charles L. DAVIS was 
united in marriage with Bettie C. CABELL, and in their home are two children:
Breckenridge C., born September 13, 1877; Rachel Stuart, January 12, 1880. 
Loch-Lynn, another child, died at the age of four months and eleven days. 
The wife of Mr. DAVIS was born in Campbell County, Virginia, January 4, 1845, 
and her parents were natives of Virginia, both now deceased, Breckenridge 
and Martha (BOULDIN) CABELL.  She died June 29, 1881. Charles L. DAVIS has 
a farm devoted to stock-raising, and has been a member of the county court 
for more than six years, and is its president at this date. His post office
address is Fort Spring, Greenbrier County, West Virginia.

Source:  Hardesty, Henry H.  Hardesty's Historical and Geographical
Encyclopedia.  New York: H.H. Hardesty and Company, 1884.
Rpt. in West Virginia Heritage Encyclopedia.  Ed. Jim Comstock.
Richwood: Comstock, 1974.