U.S. Data Repository http://www.us-data.org/ -- USGenNet Inc. -- Please read the U.S. Data Repository Copyright Statement on the following page: ------------------------------------------------------------------- Davis, Daniel H. (1838-1923) ------------------------------------------------------------------- History of Braxton County and Central West Virginia by John Davison Sutton Sutton, West Virginia, January, 1919 Page 371 Daniel H. Davis was born March 19, 1838, in Randolph county. His parents, Jesse Davis, and Permelia Lloyd Prine Davis, were both natives of Pendleton county. His grandparents, Thomas Davis and Aurelia (Pennington) Davis, were natives of Virginia. Mr. Davis has been married three times. The first marriage was to Susanna Kendall of Mannington, W. Va., in Nov., 1862, and the following children were born: Mary Isabelle, William F., Benjamin Franklin. Second marriage was to Maria Louisa Kendall of Harrisville, this state, on Nov. 11, 1875, and two children were born: Herbert K. and Linnell H. The third marriage took place June 15, 1893, to Anna Laura Bookman of St. Marys, W. Va. To this union were born four children: Lorena May, Daniel Holland, John Waitman and Mildred Eveline. Mr. Davis has been a minister of the Methodist Protestant church, and for some years editor of the Christian Echo. For the last eleven years, he has been editor, proprietor and publisher of the Mikrophone, and resides at Pullman. His great grandfather, Thomas Davis, emigrated from England when a young man, and served the American colonies through the Revolutionary war. He married Nancy Baker of Baltimore who was of Irish descent. They had three sons: James, a preacher, Thomas (grandfather of subject of this sketch), and Benjamin who went south in an early day before adequate mail service was established, and has never been heard of by the family since. There were also several daughters in this family, but there seems to be no available knowledge concerning them. Rev. D. H. Davis has been in the active ministry for over half a century, and is calmly waiting the going down of a brilliant sunset. ------------------------------------------------------------------- From Death Certificate, Ritchie County, WV #6348 FULL-NAME: Daniel Hoffman Davis BIRTH-DATE: March 19, 1838 BIRTH-PLACE: Randolph Co., Va. DEATH-DATE: April 29, 1923 DEATH-PLACE: Pullman, Union District, Ritchie County, WV MARITAL-STATUS: Married OCCUPATION: Minister FATHER: Jesse Davis (born in Pendleton Co.) MOTHER: Permelia Prine (born in Pendleton Co.) CAUSE-OF-DEATH: Embolism of rt. posterior tibial artery INFORMANT: Lorena Davis (of Pullman, W.Va.) BURIAL: Pullman ------------------------------------------------------------------- If you've reached this file through a SEARCH, you can access other biographies for Ritchie County, WV by going to the following URL: http://www.us-data.org/wv/ritchie/bios.html -------------------------------------------------------------------