This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/HNR.2ACEB/1082.1 Message Board Post: David J. Davies was a sports writer for a Pittsburgh paper in the early 1900's. He married Clara Pearl BROWN about 1905, probably in Pittsburgh. David and Clara had these children: Clara Emma, born 3 July 1906; married George GUTHRIE in 1939. Clara died 27 May 1987 in Pontiac, Michigan. Marion Marie, born 21 February 1908; married Earl D. MILLER; died in 1956. Clara died 1 December 1918 in the Southside hospital, Allegheny Co., PA Obituary, Pittsburgh Press, 2 Dec. 1918: MRS. DAVID J. DAVIES. Mrs. Clara Pearl Davies, aged 33, 805 Bayonne ave., Beechview, wife of David J. Davies, formerly sporting editor of the Dispatch, died yesterday in the Southside hospital. She was daughter of James B. And Emma Brown of 1318 Alton ave., Beechview. She was born in Allegheny, now the Northside, and had resided all of her life in Pittsburgh. She was educated in the public school in the old First ward of Allegheny. She was married to Mr. Davies 13 years ago, and had lived for the last six years in Beechview. She was an active worker in the Beechview Red Cross auxiliary and was a member of the Beechview Presbyterian church and the Ladies’ Aid society. Her husband is doing special duty for the U. S. Marine corps in San Domingo. Besides her husband and parents, two daughters, Clara and Marion Davies, both at home; two brothers, Harry Brown of the Northside, and Edgar Brown, with Fifteenth U. S. Engineers in France, and one sister, Mrs. William Charles,! Jr., Rockland ave., Northside, survive.” Obituary, Pittsburgh Gazette, 3 December 1918: “DAVIES– On Sunday, December 1, 1918 at 12 o’clock noon, at the South Side Hospital, Mrs CLARA PEARL DAVIES (nee Brown), wife of David J. Davies, formerly sporting editor of Pittsurgh Dispatch, in her 33rd hear. Funeral services at 8 p.m., Tuesday, at the residence of her parents, Mr. And Mrs. J. B. Brown, 1318 Alton avenue, Beechview. Intemaent private Wednesday 1:30 p.m.” Have been unable to find David in the 1910-1930 censuses. Suggestions would be appreciated.