DR. A.C. DAVIS DEAD
This Venerable Citizen Passed Away This Morning: Aged 71 Years.
It is with inexpressible personal sorrow that we chronicle
this afternoon the death of Dr. Adam C. Davis, which occurred at an early hour this morning at the home of his son Col A. C. Davis in this city, after many months of slow decline, in the 77th year of his age.
One of our earliest recollections of men is the benignant
countenance and kindly smile of Dr. Davis, when as a boy with books and dinner basket we trudged past his home to school in the "old academy" at the south end of town.
Often he would ask after our lessons and if we were a good boy: and that kindly interest and Christian concern was gently woven as a golden thread into the mystic to woof of our life, and, all through the passing years, as we have looked back, we have seen it shining there ever an influence for good, the effects of which only eternity can determine And so it was with others: he walked through life exemplifying in his daily intercourse with men that beautiful precept of St. Paul: "For to me to live is Christ'; surely hath he, therefore, found today, at the end of his long but, at length, " Finished course," that "to die is gain".
His venerable wife, a daughter. Mrs. Capt. T. W. Slocumb, and two sons, Col. A. C. and Mr. Jeff Davis, survive him, and to these the tenderest sympathy of our entire community goes out in all sincerity.
He was an exemplary member of the Methodist Episcopal church, and his zeal for God's house often impelled his footsteps thither for service when his physical strength was barely equal to the going. And so to those
whose hearts feel deepest the calling of this devoted
husband and beloved father to " his long home," there is all of solace and comfort in the thought that to his heart the blessed Savior's promises were a precious and abiding faith, and his greatest joy through all the varying vicissitudes of his long and useful life were found in them.
He was ready to go, and the end came sweetly and peacefully.
The funeral, conducted by Rev. Dr. F. D. Swindell, assisted by Rev. F. W. Farries, will be held from the residence of his son, Col. A. C. Davis, this evening at 6 o'clock.
Goldsboro Daily Argus • 08 Jun 1898, Wed • Page Page 4 • (Goldsboro, North Carolina)
Contributor : A. Stanley, Willow Dale Cemetery Preservation Society
DR. A.C. DAVIS DEAD
This Venerable Citizen Passed Away This Morning: Aged 71 Years.
It is with inexpressible personal sorrow that we chronicle
this afternoon the death of Dr. Adam C. Davis, which occurred at an early hour this morning at the home of his son Col A. C. Davis in this city, after many months of slow decline, in the 77th year of his age.
One of our earliest recollections of men is the benignant
countenance and kindly smile of Dr. Davis, when as a boy with books and dinner basket we trudged past his home to school in the "old academy" at the south end of town.
Often he would ask after our lessons and if we were a good boy: and that kindly interest and Christian concern was gently woven as a golden thread into the mystic to woof of our life, and, all through the passing years, as we have looked back, we have seen it shining there ever an influence for good, the effects of which only eternity can determine And so it was with others: he walked through life exemplifying in his daily intercourse with men that beautiful precept of St. Paul: "For to me to live is Christ'; surely hath he, therefore, found today, at the end of his long but, at length, " Finished course," that "to die is gain".
His venerable wife, a daughter. Mrs. Capt. T. W. Slocumb, and two sons, Col. A. C. and Mr. Jeff Davis, survive him, and to these the tenderest sympathy of our entire community goes out in all sincerity.
He was an exemplary member of the Methodist Episcopal church, and his zeal for God's house often impelled his footsteps thither for service when his physical strength was barely equal to the going. And so to those
whose hearts feel deepest the calling of this devoted
husband and beloved father to " his long home," there is all of solace and comfort in the thought that to his heart the blessed Savior's promises were a precious and abiding faith, and his greatest joy through all the varying vicissitudes of his long and useful life were found in them.
He was ready to go, and the end came sweetly and peacefully.
The funeral, conducted by Rev. Dr. F. D. Swindell, assisted by Rev. F. W. Farries, will be held from the residence of his son, Col. A. C. Davis, this evening at 6 o'clock.
Goldsboro Daily Argus • 08 Jun 1898, Wed • Page Page 4 • (Goldsboro, North Carolina)
Contributor : A. Stanley, Willow Dale Cemetery Preservation Society
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