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- Lucy Amanda CLARKE [nee DAVIS] was born in
Brookfield, N.Y., August 9,
- 1831, and died at the home of her daughter-in-law, Mrs. G.
D. CLARKE, in Milton Junction, Wis., November 2, 1919.
- She joined the Seventh Day Baptist church at the age of seventeen
years and later was
- married to William D. CLARKE at Brookfield, N.Y.,
and came to Berlin, Wis. From here they moved to Albion where
they lived on a farm till his death sixteen years ago.
- Six children were born to them, two of whom died in childhood,
one, Giles, died after
- reaching manhood. Those surviving are Joshua L. of Harmony,
Phineas of Janesville and Mrs. Nancy L. CRESSON of Whitewater;
also, sixteen grandchildren and nine great- grandchildren.
- For several years she resided in Milton Junction.
- The past two and a half years she has made her home with
Mrs. G. D. CLARKE.
- She was unable to walk since she fell and hurt her hip two
years ago. She was the last of her family of which she was
the oldest.
- Mrs. CLARKE was always a very conscientious Christian.
She heard and accepted
- the Seventh Day Adventist faith and joined the church at
Oakland, Wis.
- Funeral services were held Tuesday morning, November 4th
in the Milton Junction
- church, of which she was a member at the time of her death.
Interment was in the Albion cemetery. [Thursday edition,
p. 1]
-
- [Lucy's parents were Elliot Lee DAVIS and Mary
Ann (DYE) DAVIS, both born in NY.]
-
- Courtesy of Jon Saunders
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- Darius King DAVIS, son of Elonia and Sophia DAVIS,
was born July 21, 1832,
- near Salem, West Virginia and died November 21, 1919, aged
87 years and 5 months. He was the second in a family of ten children.
When he was a youth the family moved to Jackson Center, Ohio.
Later on they emigrated to Kansas.
- When Mr. DAVIS was twenty-one years of age he left
Ohio and went to Alfred,
- N.Y., to secure an education in Alfred University. Before
this time his school privileges had been limited to two winter
terms of three months each. With only a few dollars in his pocket
as his financial backing but with remarkable determination, he
finished his college course, paying his way by working at his
trade as carpenter and by teaching school. Together with A. C.
ROGERS, he hewed all the timbers for the Brick Hall on
the campus.
- On August 25, 1862, he was married to Lucinda FENNER
of Alfred. For a few
- years following their marriage Mr. DAVIS taught in
the public schools in Kansas. While thus engaged he received
a call to the pastorate of the church at Hartsville, N.Y., the
acceptance of which made it possible for him to continue his
studies in the Theological Seminary at Alfred. In 1874 he was
graduated in the first large class in the Seminary along with
John L. HUFFMAN, Benjamin F. ROGERS, Horace STILLMAN,
David H. DAVIS, George J. CRANDALL, Oliver D. SHERMAN
and Theodore L. GARDINER. Of this group only Dr. GARDINER
remains.
- Elder DAVIS has served several churches of the Seventh
Day Baptist denomination
- in the east and west, his last pastorate being at Smythe,
So. Dak. 1891-95.
- Four children were born to Mr. and Mrs. DAVIS: C.
Allen of Milton, Wis.; William
- K., now of Chicago; and two daughters who died in youth.
In 1895 the family moved to Milton Junction where Mrs. DAVIS
died in 1906. Twelve years ago Mr. DAVIS was married to
Mrs. Phoebe B. BABCOCK of Jackson Center, Ohio, where
he has spent the remainder of his declining years, happy in his
home and among his friends.
- The last four weeks of his life were spent with his sons
and their families. On
- November 14, he left Milton to return to his home, intending
to visit his son William in Chicago on the way. While stopping
at the home of Mr. Murray MAXSON he was seized with a
violent attack of indigestion. His wife was summoned from Jackson
Center, and was with him when the final summons came on Friday
night at six o'clock.
- Funeral services were held at Milton, Wis., in the Seventh
Day Baptist church
- November 23, 1919. Pastor Jordan was assisted in the services
by Rev. George W. Burdick. Interment was in the cemetery at Milton.
[Thursday edition, p. 1]
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- Courtesy of Jon Saunders
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