Oliver Davis was born at Hopkinton, Rhode Island, September 1, 1832, and died at Hammond, Louisiana, of heart failure, March 1, 1908.
He with Mrs. Davis, was spending the winter at Hammond. The remains were brought home to Nortonville for funeral and interment.
Brother Davis became a Christian at ten years of age, under the labors of Rev. Alexander Campbell. He united with the Hopkinton Seventh-day Baptist Church. He was married to Miss Sophrona B. Babcock at Adams Centre, March 12, 1860. They lived in Rhode Island for a time, then at Adams Centre, but settled at Albion, Wisconsin, in 1862. At the latter place he was a merchant in company with his brother-in-law, O. W. Babcock. In 1873 they sold out and came to Nortonville, Kansas, since which time their lives have been closely identified with this community and its development.
Mrs. Davis died at Albion, November 10, 1866. On January 23, 1868, he was united in marriage with Miss Elizabeth R. Williams at Albion, who remains, with a wide circle of relatives and friends, in bereavement. He was a worthy member and faithful supporter of the Seventh-day Baptist Church of Nortonville at the time of his death.
Mr. Davis was a man of remarkably strong personality. He was vigorous and clear in his thinking and convictions, and conscientious and loyal to his understandings of right. Wrong and evil he could not excuse or tolerate. He was a practical, quiet man of unassuming ways and but few words. The Lord blessed him with a good amount of this world's goods, with which he was generous, though his charities and benevolences were not done for display; usually but very few knew of them. Frequently the recipients of his charities knew not the source from whence they came. He was a man of large-hearted sympathies, easily touched by the sorrows, sufferings and needs of others. The cause of purity and right appealed strongly to him. As a friend, he was one of the most constant and loyal. G. W. H
