Martinsburg statesman-democrat. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1906-1921, 1911-12-01

ciilcreu.
The funeral TOOK place Thursday
Kew. Z, :. Trump Of the Lutheran
church officiating and the intet,nent
was IN Green Hill cemetery.
sPERow.
Mrs. Brown Sperow died at her
hsme near Spring Mills In this county
lust Monday night after short illness
aged about s0ly ears. Mn Sperow was
Miss Small, native of the neiyhbor.
hoed In which she died and she lived
all her life in that section. Her sister.
Mise Mary Ann Small died at her
nome last week. mention of which WIS
made in our last issue She is survived
10y one brother, Mr.. John Small. the
last survivor of the family. He lives at
sydney, Ohio. The following children
survive Mr.. George Henry Sperow
who is married and lives on his own
farm, MIR. Luther Sperow and Misses
NJ ollie, Ida and Sallie the last named
four still living at the old family home
where the neither died.
From her early life Mrs. Sperow
was consistent mem Der of the Juth-
eran church in this city and was high
ly esteemed by all with whom she
ca me in contact. She was consistent
with her christian professions and
loved her church ard its service.
The Funeral took place from the
home on Thursday morning at 10
O'Clock, her pastor, Rev. Charles s.
Trump, OF st. Johns Lutheran church
In this city, officiating and the inter-
ment was III Green Hill cemetery.
DAVIS.
The city newspapers of last Monday
bought us the sad intelligence of the
death of our West VItgnians most
highly esteemed citizen in the person
of Col Thomas b. Davis. This news
is deeply regretted by not only the
people of West Virginia but of several
of the. states as well
Washington, Nov. 26.-Col. Thomas
Beall Davis, brother of former Sena-
ter Henry Gassaway Davis, of West
Virginia, and one of the best-known
citizens of that State, died today at hi.
home in Keyser, w. Va, in his eighty
fourth year.
Former Senator Davis, who had
recently come to Washington for the
| winter, left for Keyser as soon as he
received the telegram notifying him of
his brothers. death. The funeral will
be held in Elkins on Tuesday.
Col. Thomas q. Davis was the
youngest and only surviving brother
of the former Senator, and was bern III
Baltimore April 25, 1928. Until re-
Gently he had been actively identified
with the business affairs of his brother.
Early in his youth Colonel Davis
moved to Howard county, Maryland,
where he grew to manhood and re-
ceived such education as the common
schools at that time afforded. In the
early fifties he and his brother, Henry
G. Davis, moved to Piedmont, w. Va.
and entered the employ of the Balti-
more and Ohio Railroad Company. A
few years later he became merchant
lumberman, banker, miner and finally
a builder of railroads.
In later years he had devoted much
time to farming and raising fine stock.
He was elected to the Legislature OF
West Virginia from Mineral county as
a Democrat III 1898, overcoming large
Republican majority. He has been
member of the STATE Democratic execu-
tive committee for more than 30 years
and was elected to the tifty-ninth
Congress from the Second Compression
al district of West Virginia at special
election held Jnne 6, 1905, to fill the
vacancy caused by the resignation Of
former Congressman A u. Dayton.
He served until the end OF the Fifty
ninth Congress.
Colonel DAVIS made Keyser one OF
the most thriving and important OF the
minor cities of West Virginia. His
gifts to the West Virginia University
Preparatory School, at Keyser, have
more than once insured its permanency
and resulted in an efficient school being
established. Colonel Davis was never
married, but he kept up an old-fashlon-
ed home in the outskirts OF the town,
where he welcomed his friends With
with open. handed hospitality.
Until the last year OF his life he had
manifested a great interest in the
breeding of fine horses and the DAVIS
stables at Keyser have been famed
throughout the East. IL the late
summer and fall it was his custom 10
visit all the county fairs with his
string, and they were generally WIN
pers. Although he occasionally raced