This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Davis, Dunbar, McIntyre, Long, Freeman, Preslar Classification: Obituary Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/mcB.2ACE/171 Message Board Post: April 29, 1937 Messenger-Intelligence (Wadesboro, Anson Co., NC) Mr. L.B. Davis – Mr. Lewis B. Davis passed away on Friday, April 23, at his home in the Zoar community about two miles over the line in South Carolina. He was 81 years of age, and was a native of Chesterfield County. The funeral and interment were at Zoar church, with Rev. E.S. Dunbar in charge, assisted by Rev. J.A. McIntyre and Rev. Samuel Long. The pall bearers were grandsons of Mr. Davis, and flower bearers were his granddaughters. Mr. Davis is survived by his wife, before marriage Miss Priscilla Freeman. His other near relatives include several children, whose names are not available as the M. & I. Goes to press. Mrs. Bruce Preslar of Wadesboro, is a granddaughter, one of a number of relatives living in Anson County where Mr. Davis had a host of devoted friends. He was one of the largest property owners in this section, and was an industrious citizen of exceptional character expressed in his admirable and upright life. [note: L.B. Davis was listed as “Louis B. Davis” on the 1900 census of Chesterfield Co, SC, in Court House township. The census states that he was born June 1857 in SC. His wife was named Barzilla, and she was born July 1864 in SC. They had been married 22 years and had a houseful of children.]