Here is an Obit that I sent to a Davis researcher. I thought someone out there might want it. It appeared in the Minutes of the Sixty-Fifth Annual Session of the Elkhorn Association of Primitive Baptists. Held with the Davy Church McDowell Co., WV September 25, 26, 27, 1925. >The subject of this notice was the son of Adam and Clara Davis, was born >June 25th 1858. He was married to Carolina Whitt, January 1, 1880. To >this union was born seven children-3 boys and 4 girls. Five predeceased >him unto a peaceful sleep; two survived him-Miles C. Davis and Clara >Luster, his daughter, his only two surviving children. Caroline Davis >deceased April 5, 1911; she was the mother of the above mentioned children. > >Elder Davis was married the second time to Amenda Muncy, May 2, 1912. >Elder Davis was raised a fatherless child, his father being killed in the >Civil War, being raised up by a poor widow mother. His opportunity for an >education was very limited but he managed to obtain a common education such >as could be obtained in a country school. He taught several schools and >while teaching, it pleeased God to reveal to him his state and standing by >reasons of sin, as he stood condemned by reason of sin. I have heard him >tell how, while in the school house, that the Holy Spirit shined into his >heart and that he at once felt and saw himself greatly in need of a >Saviour's love and mercy to deliver him from a woeful state of sin and >condemnation which hung over his gloomy mind. While the children were >playing at recess he slipped away out of sight and fell upon his knees and >implored God's Great Mercy to remove his guilt and condemnation; and God, >for Christ's sake, imparted to him a witness of his love that he had >forgiven his sins and from that time and place he claimed a little Hope in >Christ which he claimed unto death. This Hope was an anchor to his sould >even in death. He joined the Primitive Baptist Church at Hale Creek, Feb. >9, 1884, awas baptixed by Elder Miles L. Compton, March 10, 1884 and began >to be burdened and exercised in mind concerning preaching, believing it to >be Gods will and work. He began preaching the gospel April 25, 1884, and >was ordained to the full functions of the gospel July 10, 1886, and >continued to preach according to the ability that God gave him untio his >death. He baptised the writerand I have often thought that his prayer at >the water was the most heart-searching and God-sent prayer that I ever >heard or felt fall from the lips of mortal man. He and I traveled together >and preached the glory and power of God's saving grace in Chirst, to >different churches. His preaching was always sound. Salvation by grace in >Christ. He earnestly contended that salvation of poor sinners was alone of >the Lord and that Jesus was the salvation of all of God's people to the >ends of the earth, and that they were all loved in Christ and will finally >all be brought safe to glory through him. Elder Davis deceased January 8, >1925, age 66 years 6 months and 14 days. He suffered from heart leakage >for several months, bore his sickness with Christian patience, he deceased >at this son-in laws house at Dan (known now as Bradshaw) WV. who is an >Elder of the Primitive Baptist Church. He exhorted his son in law to >contend for the faith and salvation of all of God's people in Christ and to >live faithful to Christ. Elder Davis was laid to rest by the side of his >mother in the Rowe Grave-yard. His spirit returned to the God who gave it >and he laid down in a peaceful sleep to a wait the resurrection when Christ >will come and change his vile body and fashion it like his own glorious >body. He leaves a wife and two children, three sisters and one brother and >many friends to mourn his loss. Let me say to them that their small loss >is his eternal gain and that he fought a good fight and kept the faith, and >henceforth there is a crown laid up for him that the Righteous Judge will >give him in that day. He leaned upon the Saviour in death and by God's >grace you can meet him in that shining world where you will never part, and >where the weary will be at rest, there the prisoners rest together, and >they hear not the voice of the oppressors, the small and the great are >there and the servant is free from his master, therfore, is light given to >him that was in misery and life given to the bitter in soul. Now to Him >that is able to keep you from falling and to present you faultless before >the presence of his glory with ewceeding joy to the only wise God, our >saviour, to be gloried and majesty dominion and power, both now and >forever, AMEN. > >Elder E.M. Evans, Honaker, VA., Sept 17, 1925