This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Ewing, Davis, Rupp Classification: Obituary Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/Tk.2ADE/2368 Message Board Post: Postville Herald newspaper December 31, 1941 Former Local Resident Passes Away at Waukon Mrs. John Davis, 83, passed away at the home of her son Charles at Waukon on Christmas Day and funeral services were held there Saturday. As Lodema Ewing she was born in Franklin Township and married John Davis in 1876. The couple for many years lived in Post Township, before moving to Waukon. She is survived by two daughters, Mrs. Leona Rupp of Waukon and Miss Evora Davis of Chicago, eight sons, Charles and Ben of Waukon; Carl of McGregor; Lester of Bruce, Wisconsin; Leo and Jacob of Joliet, Illinois; Arthur of Beloit, Wisconsin; and Bryl; 26 grandchildren; 15 great grandchildren and 1 great great grandchild. Submitter's note: Lodema Laduska (Ewing) Davis was born June 16, 1858 to James Vickery Ewing and Elizabeth French. She married John Nathaniel Davis on December 24, 1876 at Forest Mills, Iowa. Marriage record can be found in the Waukon, Iowa Courthouse in Register 4, Page 285. John and Lodema were buried in the Oakland Cemetery at Waukon, Iowa. John was born May 13, 1854, in Ripley County, Indiana and died January 13, 1935. His parents were Berg Davis and Sarah Webster. The daughter, Miss Evora Davis married Albert August Fiet.