John S. Davis (died 1881)

DAVIS, PEARSON, BATES, GRAY, GREEN

Posted By: Ken Wright (email)
Date: 12/14/2008 at 01:02:25

Miles Reporter, January 22, 1881, reprinted in the
Jackson Sentinel, January 27, 1881.

A telegram received by George F. Green on Saturday announced the sad news of the death of John S. Davis, at 8 o'clock on the morning of the 15th at his home in Bennington, Kansas. A telegram on Wednesday previous informed his friends that he was very low, and Mr. Ashel Davis started for Kansas on the following day. Sickness in some of their families prevented his sisters-Mrs. A. Pearson, Mrs. Walter Bates, and Mrs. James Gray- from going to him at the same time, and they were not able to leave until the first train on Monday. About two years since Mr. Davis disposed of his beautiful farm at Mt. Algor, and left Iowa in search of a climate where he might hope to regain his health. After traveling several weeks he went to Kansas, and finding the climate suited to his physical condition, he purchased four farms, containing 720 acres, in different directions from Bennington and a town property upon which he erected a handsome residence and made for himself and little family a new home in which, for some time, he appeared to be regaining his health; but that great destroyer, consumption, had laid a strong hand upon him and there was no escape.