JAMES A. DAVIS

MCCOLLOCH, DAVIS, PHILLIPS

Posted By: Jennifer Busard Hale Fitzsimmons (email)
Date: 10/10/2005 at 21:34:27

From Weekly Gate City, Keokuk October 7, 1897

"James A. Davis died at his home, three and one-half miles east of Farmington, Sept. 30. The deceased was born in Virginia, Aug. 11, 1822. He has been living in Lee county for twenty-six years. He was married March 22, 1855. To their union was born twelve children, six of whom with his wife survive him. He was a member of the 151st Illinois infantry, in which he served one year..."