Wapello County IA Archives Biographies.....Davis, Andrew J. March 22, 1855 - 
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Source: Past and present Saline County, Missouri
Author: William Barclay Napton

From 'Past and present of Saline County, Missouri' by William Barclay Napton 
1910
                               ANDREW J. DAVIS

     A. J. DAVIS, a progressive farmer and stock raiser and the oldest son of 
William and Elizabeth (MAJOR) DAVIS, was born in Wapello county, Iowa, on the 
22d day of March, 1855.  He spent his early life amid the bracing air and 
wholesome discipline of the country, received a practical education in the 
public schools and grew to manhood on the farm, remaining with his parents 
until twenty-seven years of age.  He then moved to a farm of two hundred acres 
in section 20, township 50, Arrow Rock township, where he has since resided 
and which under his effective labors and judicious management has been highly 
improved, being at this time one of the productive and valuable farms of the 
county.
     On December 20, 1882, Mr. DAVIS was united in marriage with Mary E. 
JAMISON, whose birth occurred in Saline county, June 17, 1858, being a 
daughter of James N. and Edmonia (HUSTON) JAMISON, the father born June 14, 
1814, in Virginia, the mother in Cooper county, Missouri, September 28, 1823.  
Mrs. JAMISON's parents were Benjamin and Polly (TEMPLETON) HUSTON, both 
natives of Virginia, and among the early pioneers of Missouri, moving to 
Cooper county when that part of the state was a wildnerness and the foot of 
the savage still pressed the soil.  James N. JAMISON came to Saline county 
about 1839 and located three hundred twenty acres of land, which he improved 
and on which he spent the remainder of his life.  Soon after locating in 
Saline county, he married Lucy TOWNSEND, daughter of Sanders A. TOWNSEND, of 
Virginia, a union terminated by the death of Mrs. JAMISON one year later.  
Subsequently, 1849, he went to California, but after remaining a short time in 
that far-off country he returned to Missouri, and about the year 1851 entered 
the marriage relation with Edmonia HUSTON, who bore him five children, two 
sons and three daughters, namely:  Newton R., of Oklahoma; Belle, of Marshall, 
Missouri; Mrs. Andrew J. DAVIS; Edmonia, who is unmarried and lives in 
Marshall; the youngest, Benjamin H., died in 1887, at the age of twenty-three 
years.  Mr. JAMISON was a consistent member of the Methodist Episcopal church 
South and active in all lines of benevolent work.  He was a true type of the 
upright Christian gentleman and .....
The marriage of Mr. and Mrs. DAVIS has been blessed with seven children, the 
oldest of whom is Emmet E., who was born December 20, 1883, and is still with 
his parents; C. Jamison, the second child, was born November 4, 1885, and 
married the 12th of December, 1907, in Kansas City, Elizabeth PIPER, whose 
birth occurred in Clinton, Missouri, July 4, 1885, being a daughter of John W. 
and Lutie (LINDSAY) PIPER.  One daughter is the result of this union, a sweet 
little daughter by the name of Lunora E., who first saw the light of day 
October 24, 1908.
     Guilford Gay Davis, the third of the subject's family, was born August 
21, 1888, and is still a member of the home circle; Minnie May, who is also at 
home, was born December 1, 1890, after whom are William Major, born March 7, 
1893; Martha Linton, November 2, 1895, and Henry Huston, whose birth occurred 
on November 22, 1898, all these at home and pursuing their studies in the 
public schools.....



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