Person:John Davis (116)

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Database: kinnickind Individual: I77 Link: http://worldconnect.genealogy.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=kinnickind&id=I77 Name: Jeanine Email: [email protected] URL: URL title: Note: Mathew Leonard Davis b 21 Mar 1814 Clark Co., KY married 07 Jul 1835 Callaway Co., MO Mary Elizabeth Wilfely b Oct 1814 Hawkins Co., TN children William Franklin Davis b 1836 (see rest of children at end of obit)

Obit for John Samuel Davis from Sheridan Press, Sheridan, WY dated Tuesday, September 3, 1935

LAST RITES FOR J. SAM DAVIS TO BE WEDNESDAY

Funeral services for John Samuel Davis, 82, pioneer of this country who died Friday, August 30, at Rochester, Minn., will be held at 2 o'clock Wednesday afternoon at the First Congregational Church.

Mr. Davis was born in St. Joseph, Mo., in 1853, and when but a small boy moved with his parents to Iowa where he grew to manhood. In 1877 he was married to Cloe E. Kinnick. In the spring of 1882 with his wife and three-year-old son, Mr. Davis strarted across the plains to Wyoming. In August of that year they arrived in Big Horn and located on Beaver Creek.

Later disposing of that property Mr. Davis filed on a place on Little Goose which is now part of the Charles Skinner property near Big Horn. His desire for more sparsely populated places with open ranges led him to the West Pass Creek country in the summer of 1885. The place where he located is now known as the "Mountain Home" ranch. There he and his wife built their first log cabin where they made their home until the time of his death.

The pioneer was active in the early day building of county roads. For a time he was road supervisor and later county commissioner. He assisted in arranging the plans and floating the bonds for the present county court house. He was also vitally interested in the establishing of schools in Sheridan county. He was an early member of the B. P. O. E.

He is survived by his wife, Mrs. Cloe Kinnick Davis: two sons, Charles A. Davis of Hope, Alaska; and Sterling S. Davis of Buffalo; one daughter, Mrs. Tom Lamb of Sheridan. One child preceeded him in death. He is also survived by nine granchildren and two great grandchildren...

Elizabeth J. Davis b 1838 Mary Ellen Davis b 1840 Lucy A. Davis b 1842 James Henry Davis b 1848 Amanda Christena Davis b 12 Dec 1850 JOHN SAMUEL DAVIS b 12 Mar 1853 d 30 Aug 1935 buried Sheridan, Sheridan County, WY m CHLOE E. KINNICK b 17 Feb 1859 married Clarinda, Page County, Iowa

1900 U. S. Census, Wyoming, Sheridan County, Slack Precinct, p. 5A, dwelling 92, family 94: George Kinnick household, George, June 1863, 36, M 15, Iowa, North Carolina, North Carolina, Farmer, owns; wife, Emma A., October 1867, 32, M 15, 4, 4, Illinois, Illinois, Illinois; son, Lesley C., May 1886, 14, S, Iowa, Iowa, Illinois, at school; son, William R., February 1888, 12, S, Iowa, Iowa, Illinois, at school; daughter, May Letha, March 1890, 10, S, Iowa, Iowa, Illinois, at school; daughter, Elma M., January 1899, 1, S, Iowa, Iowa, Illinois. Sister, Cloa, next door:

Dwelling 93, family 95, John Davis household, John, May 1853, 4- M 22, Missouri, Kentucky, Tennessee, Farmer, owns; wife, Cloa, E., February 1858, 42, M 22, 4, 3, Iowa, South Carolina, South Carolina; son, Charles A., November 1879, 20, S, Iowa, Missouri, Iowa, stock drover; daughter, Alice M., June 1883, 16, S, Wyoming, Missouri, Iowa, at school; son, Samuel H., September 1894, 5, S, Wyoming, Missouri, Iowa; mother, Mary, September 1814, 85, Wd, 10, 6, Tennessee, Tennessee, Tennessee; cousin, Basil A. Spence, male, July 1880, 19, S, Missouri, North Carolina, Missouri, stock drover.

1. ↑ Sheridan Press, Sheriday, WY, Sept 3, 1935, obituary.