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- Anna Salina [Selina] DAVIS, wife of William J. DAVIS,
was the daughter of Ezra
- and Elizabeth ENSIGN GOODRICH. She was born at Milton
June 18th, 1861, and died at her home in Milton May 25th, 1912,
in the fifty-first year of her age.
- Mrs. DAVIS's family is well and widely known as a
pioneer family of Milton, her
- grandfather, Joseph GOODRICH, having been the founder
of the Village of Milton and of the school which finally became
Milton College. Mrs. DAVIS in her life exemplified the
sterling virtues and the kindly traits that were the characteristic
marks of her ancestors. She was the youngest of four children,
the others being Joseph C. GOODRICH of Milton, William
Henry GOODRICH of Chicago, and Mrs. Mary Elizabeth POST,
wife of Dr. Geo. W. POST, Sr. of Chicago. She received
her education in school and college at Milton. In early life
she manifested a marked interest in music and she was always
devoted throughout her life to the music of the Sabbath-school
and church. At about the age of ten years she gave her heart
to Christ and was baptized by the Rev. Darwin E. MAXSON,
uniting with the Milton Seventh-day Baptist church. In 1875 with
her parents she became one of the constituent members of the
church at Milton Junction. On December 22nd, 1886, she married
William J. DAVIS at Milton. Mr. and Mrs. DAVIS
lived in Janesville for about fifteen years. From 1899 to 1904
they made their home in Colorado Springs. After that time they
lived in California until they removed to Milton in 1905.The
had four children: Lucile Goodrich, who died in 1901; William
Starr, who lives in Colorado Springs; and two younger daughters,
Beth Marie and Goldie Estelle. Mrs. DAVIS was in good
health until about May 10th, when the severe illness became manifest
which resulted in her death. Mrs. DAVIS was a woman of
determined character, great steadiness of purpose, and noble
ideals. She was a devoted wife and mother and was always known
as a helpful member of the church and community. Her kindliness
of heart was recognized by everyone. In 1906 she removed her
church membership from Milton Junction to the church at Milton
of which she remained a faithful member until her death.
- Funeral services were held at the Seventh-day Baptist church
in Milton at 2 o'clock
- May 28th, 1912, conducted by President Daland of Milton college.
Interment was made in the village cemetery at Milton.
- Among those from a distance who attended the funeral were:
W. Starr DAVIS and
- wife, Colorado Springs, Dr. and Mrs. Geo. W. POST
and daughter Jessie, and Dr. and Mrs. Geo. W. POST, Jr.
of Chicago; Miss Margaret POST, Barron, Wis.; Dr. and
Mrs. Henry DAVIS, Monroe, Ill.; Mr. and Mrs. Charles E.
DAVIS and Bert DAVIS of Davis Junction, Ill.; Mrs.
Theodore VAN DeMARK of Rockford; Miss Mattie BRAND
of Madison; Mesdames L. P. and J. D. KNOWLTON of Waterloo,
Wis.; Mesdames BAINE, CUNNINGHAM, SOVERHILL,
NOLAN and ROGAN of Janesville. [Sourced as "The
Telephone" from Milton Junction, Thursday edition, p. 1]
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- Courtesy of Jon Saunders
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