The following story comes from the February 27, 1915 edition of "The True Citizen" newspaper.
RICH GEORGIA WOMAN FARM OWNER IS DEAD
Augusta: Feb. 25 -- Mrs. Virginia Inman Davis, 76, one of thw wealthiest women in this section, founder of a chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution and member of one of the South's old and aristocratic families is dead at her home in Hephzibah.
Mrs. Davis owned thousands of acres of land in Burke and adjoining counties and her son, Allen W. Jones operated her farms for her. She has over 400 one-horse farms on her plantations and was worth probably a half million dollars.
The following story comes from the February 27, 1915 edition of "The True Citizen" newspaper.
RICH GEORGIA WOMAN FARM OWNER IS DEAD
Augusta: Feb. 25 -- Mrs. Virginia Inman Davis, 76, one of thw wealthiest women in this section, founder of a chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution and member of one of the South's old and aristocratic families is dead at her home in Hephzibah.
Mrs. Davis owned thousands of acres of land in Burke and adjoining counties and her son, Allen W. Jones operated her farms for her. She has over 400 one-horse farms on her plantations and was worth probably a half million dollars.
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