The Forrest City times., 1911-11-10
APPENDICITIS
 PROVES FATAL
Thomas Brandenburs Davis Dies Friday at 4::55 pm. at St. Vim
 cents Hospital, Little Rock.
WAS STRICKEN ILL MONDAY
Remains Brought Home Saturday and Inferred Sunday Afternoon in Presence of Large Gathering
 of Relatives and Friends.

To the newspaper man, in the daily grind of his duties, there comes many tasks-some that are easy and some that are hard, some that are pleasant, and some that are sad, sad indeed-and in the latter classified. tion can surely be placed the duty that compels us to write the chron- icle of the passing away of those Of our friends who have grown a-weary and tired-worn out with the struggle here below, or been oyertaken in a brilliant career and the heyday of young manhood by q fatal malady. and passed on 10 fairer realms above the skies and it was with heartfelt anguish and deep sorrow that We learned last Friday evening that our friend, Thomas Brandenburg Davis, had passed away that afternoon at 4:55 o'clock at St. Nincent's Hospital in Little Rock. where he had under gone an operation for appendicitis on Tuesday.
 Mr Davis was taken suddenly i'll Monday afternoon, October 30, at his office in the State Bank building. in Little Rock, and was taken at once to the hospital, where every thing possi- ble was done for his comfort, and where an operation was decided upon. The operation was performed. as stated above, and successfully it was thought, though the surgeons in charge stated at the time that it was one of the most complicated cases that had ever come under their observation, and on Wednesday a message to loved ones here stated that he was cheerful, and they believed he was on fair road to recovery But. alas for human hopes and prayers the grim angel of death had already set its hand upon him, and all the manly spirit and courage with which he fought the destroyer, and all the tender ministrations, loving care and skilled attention, ayailed him naught. and on Friday. at the hour stated. the kindly, gentle spirit winged its flight t5 6aat taraWa. home of the ble~t
 The jast 65#- of his life were peaceful ones ug nursed his am bitions, and wanted to live. as all good, true mon do. but with this desire To live there was no craven fear of death. His was the spirit that could truly and sincerely say. 70, death where is thy victory, O. grave. where is thy sting.
 Tuomas Brandenburg Davis was the youngest son of Mr and Mrs. T. J. Istyis, of Happy Home, three miles So- of this city, where he was born on a ptemberl 1, lsso, and his boy hood fife was spent here, and here he received the foundations of an educa- ti0n from the public schools.
 After graduating here he went three and one-half years to the State | niVerSity at Fayetteville, worked two years in Denver, Colorado. as draftsman on steel mill buildings, contracting plants and smelters. then took one years course in Cornell diversity, after which time he went 2s designing engineer with the Amer ican Smelling X Refining Company. of New York. thence to Mexico, as designer, ana supefintended the erection of the concentration mill at Santa Barbara, Chihuahua. pon returning to the States he accepted the chair of applied mathematics and machine design at the 'niversitv of Nebraska. Lincoln. After teaching for year he accepted a position as mechanical engineer with the Jeffrey Manufacturing Company, of Colum- bus Ohio. While with this company he made estimates on the cranes for handling the rock, sand, cement and concrete for building tie locks at the lsthmus of Panama, and in December l9os, was asked by the government to accompany the United States Engi- neering Corps To the Isthmus to look over the field and become familiar with the surroundings prior to the beginning of the designing of the steelwork, which was one of the most gigantic undertakings in this line ever considered i'll this country Ep to that time Mr Davis had designed. and his company had built every travelling crane placed on the Isthmus and his work there proved in every Way success. giving him a wide and enYiable reputation for competency in his chosen field. He held his po- sition with that company until he was rendered the presidency of the