The Clarksburg telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1874-1926, 1901-01-04
DUDLEY i. DAVIS GONE ABOVE.
Soldier, Poet. Merchant and Farmer
His Lie was Full Of Good Deeds

His Lie Was Full Of GOOD Deeas
Col. Dudley n. Davis, OF ouiet Dell.
died Monday morning. December q
1900, from heart trouble, aftera fsv
hours illness. Interment was made
in the Seventh Day Baptist cemetery
at Salem, at O'Clock Saturday afteT~
noon, December 29.,Rev, u. G. still
man, Of Lost Greek, and Rev. T. I,
Gardiner, OF Salem oftlclated,
Dudley Hughes Davis was born
March 23rd, 1884, in Harrison county,
Virginia, what Is now Doddridge COUP
ty, West Virginia. His early life was
spent on a farm, and he had 5ut little
advantage Of educational privilege.
F; His grandfather, William Davis,
came from New Jersey and was nneof
the first settlers OF Harrison county.
His father William +. Davis was u
soldier in the war Of 1912. At the
close of the war he, William F. Davis,
was married to Miss Rachel Hughes,
whose parents came from the South,
She was cousin Of Hickory Jackson
William F. Davis, after his marriage
with SiiSS Hughes, settled in Whist is
now Doddrldge county, then wilder
ness where white mans foot scarcely
ever trod before. There they raised
large family OF children. Dudley II.
was one Of the youngest. He left home
Mt the age Of twenty-five and attend
ed school at Clarksburg at the West
Virginia Academy.
There he was clasSmate wlthmen
who are now prominent business men
Among them is Judge Nathan Cot
and Lloyd Lowndes, Ex-Governor OF
the State Of Maryland.
In the year 1856 he left school and
engaged in the mercantile business,
near his fathers home In 1858 he
was married to Miss Emily Rickardr
of West Moorland county, Pa. OF this,
union there were giyen them eight
children, four Of whom are living BE
and his wife settled In Quiet DeIl
where he again engaged successfullF
in the mercantile business for thirty
two years, when he closed out his stock
of goods and purchased valuable
farm on Elk creek between GIarkshurg
and Quiet.I and IKE everything !,
else he undertook, he knew no fdila
He soOu showed to his nelghbofs thai
II he was not an expeii ed farnef5
1e was at least practical one.
Mr.. Davis was president or 1.-the first
board OF education Of his district ana
helped to put the free school syste
into operation,
In the year 1876 he went into The
conventi0nswith 3 delegation 0f one
hundred, aud Oh the arst ballot VA
nominated as candidate Tor the
Legislature, receiving elglity;fou
votes. But owing 20 a1SiudependeI
candidate lie vas deteaied BY fort
votes.
In the late clyIi war be- was COM
mlSsioned lleutenant-cosbnel OF hia
regiment.
During allthe toll and care OF bis
business-life his mind SS,is at work 10.
the literary field, and iiesg6uld think
and write poetry; and why, says, he
can not tell except that atopIc would
present itself 10 his mind and ne could
not get rld-utl IL uatil he WouldssIif
some thing on it. He never though
az publishing d book. and ID Has only
through the solicitation Of frie1ds
that be ever consented To hage the
! hrstvolume OF his poems pub shed
The literary works BY SIfs Davis
have received eonsl Fable praise b
capable critics In { Gus tlfus of
the country Among sfe
Davis Poems and The Kilg6pn
Gained.p The latter- Is ne srQF d
| life lin pottery and cioses aslsl, the
following stanzas appropriate Indeed
\ in this obituary =;
on chariot clouds Of g0ld We'lEtise
To that world above,
To meet the angeis-oi the skies
And sing redeeming love.
| And as The myrlads rise to sing
In clouds 81 golden spray,
The kingdom bells Slllll sweetly fling
Through Times tlladlp dag
The son Or God shan ihe light
/ or that brisht World 9abigh,
To fade the stiFs and 9banssll 1igi;s
And Hood the golden spray
There angels sleep through goidan
| spray x
And giitterIng clouds oEfleayen. "
Where chariots roll tlp6ugh endless
and Kingdom floats are driven.