Bedford (IN) Daily Mail, November 8, 1901, p. 4. J. Wesley Davis, father-in-law of Henry Brown of this city and an old resident of New Albany, died Tuesday morning at his home, 213 Elkin Avenue, of dropsy after an illness of more than a year. He was born in Tennessee 68 years ago and came to that city when a very young man having lived there nearly 50 years. His wife and six children, a son and five daughters, survive him. He was a member of the Veteran Volunteer Firemen's Association of New Albany and his funeral took place Wednesday under the direction of that fraternity. For more than 20 years he was in the postal service as mail clerk on one of the steamers of the Louisville and Henderson Packet Company.