The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1920-01-25
Diving of RemOrse, Buck Davis
Wrote Epitaph Before End
rducated for Brilliant
Future, Youth Took
Up Life of Error.
DEATH CAME QUICKLY
pooms Revealed the Great
Sorrow That He Felt
over own Conduct.

,.,,., The fields Of yesterday
.or1etiucs come 90 me.
iiit,e Iad iust back from play
me .ad ( used TO De-
..d ,et he smiles 50 witttnIy
One he has crepi wlihIn
.ogder i be hopes 10 see
The man nigh. have Oooh'
MI uoptal anguish that Andrew
Da,4s 2G. "a cultured quarter
JeH "'str,tae suffered because OF
o!oou ,.tsIecds was cleverly kept
ne ris Immediate friends ana as
a,ey IIu,. nut when he dropped dead
T,icr TrXas. on January 3, ~they
al ,o l.ght and shed patheiic
and interesting chapter TO very
O'T To ibe clothes Of young Davis were
tonnd "A number OF original verses
ana ~ which was the above, lndlcat,
inr mat he regretted keenly the klhu
ofa life he had been living. put on
account Of onvironmcnt ana the per
sis,ence Of officers of the law IN
"spo,t.ng him. making II lmpoSsln'e
for him to amend his ways and turn
over 4 new lear 1T 81. .,,.
rffpptg were IFi tlN''A AAAAs'
bis sister. Miss Mary Lynch DAVIS
"T-f5 North Cheyenne avenue, VINO
in the past had received others OF
lhis verses all containing the same
note OF remorsc and regret AT ms
misspent life.
Young Davis was known to the
nolice Of scores OF SOUTHWESTERN
towns and cities as a wild one,
Being Of happy -go-lucky disposi-
t,on, confinement in prison and Jalls
worried him, and the bchet tndt
some physical ailment caused him to
be "black sheep" undermined his
health His sister believes that 1t was
this worrying so much about his life
that weakened his heart and brought
on death.
he was born in Bayou Manard,
near Tahleuuah. in Cherokee county,
on November /, 1894, being the
ninth and youngest child of Mr.. and
Mrs ". II Kinney Davis. As lit
tie boy he was more mischievous
than the others, and this habit de-
veloped as he grew older. He was
sent to the Presbyterian mission
school at Tahlequah. and given every
opportunity to become "A credit to his
family, the Cherokee nation and so
ciety, but he did not care for what
others thought and soon began to
associate with "A bad crowd of youths.
Buck as We called him, led a
wild life said his sister, land while
his conduct has grieved us terribly
We are all glad that he has gone
and that he went q free man. Father
\ and neither have worried much over
q him. Although he was the black
sheep, he was always good to me-
Miss Davis said that in his con-
versations with her he was always
n talking Of What ! might have been,
then explaining that some uncon'
trolable feeling seemed to swecT
Z over him compelling him to do thaU
which he knew was wrong, but thai
his resistance was futile and against
\ hls better nature, did things thH
should have been done, and having
zone them. had TO do the next bes
and seek escape from the nemcsi.
3 OF the law.
The father is now at the Confed.
crate home atEArdmOre, broken il
4 spirit over the untimely end OF hi,
son Like his daughter, however. h,
's glad that he went west a FIRE,
man. The mother is at sanitariuu
IN canton, 5. d. a brother is Lernel
ra'iS OF Su.well, Okla. and Perry
DAVIS OF Bear Creek, Mont,
=, four OF the verses found on younl
Davis are as follows:
u, why7
wy did God make us the way wo,arel
NJ Shst ] would like to know.
M; uId he create the seed OF sin
" ne aldn expect us to SOW
h "II SId he make some men weaki
" 1'u why ana he mHke some StrOngi
Co,I.n ",en 'n' weak can no longer resist
Fl 000aeu'n them for doing wrongl
Il 0gl.d ne house that is weak an,
81 p. ana smother of steel and stone
'.ose my eyes in a fierce wind gal
b and awake and find one gone.
Eo1idn't expect when I opeped nv ewes
81 p, 40 soc that house Of rotten wood \
a M, hsYl,uh be- at al surprised
81 mat the big stone house had stood.
80 rehy did God make us the wat We are
u '"'' ThaI l would like to know.
II Weary.
n tp w see of this life | an living
u ,r Inns butterfly lie 20 gay.
81 women all powdered and paiutcd
& WIN music and the cabaret.
q n n ;i'vi oi this hustle and hustle.
tnaI never ceases all day
II an tired Of this wininr Ana diripr
i ana a" Of this gambling play.
nay be showing the white feather.
hal ] care not what folks NAV saw
enough OF this rushing and pushing
u''1y with the swing and sway.
n "y nerves are al shattered and tattered
m I'm pi4h has begun to decay,
III y"tsome Tor the cows aud chickens
III AM the scent Of new mown hay.
y aone with this city wav Of living
Il wt ns'e seen enough Of the great
n rs born and raised in. the country
1 want to 90 back there and
III Ts.,, Nobody Knows,
great river We ali mnst erns..
D Bu, Nefy body seems 10 thin
a, ,"aeiher We and without a loss
""elNer we wreck aud sink
Nobody knows.
Tb.t ever started on that awful race
Asd ever iame back Ia tell
bi,e' heaven was their landln
'neslSr N.h ihey wrecked in hell,
N'O"dy knows.
Igr AZ When I Am Dead.
Rst ne down, my friend.
hisk No, your yoke of sorrow.
4' forget ne on the morrow.
50 ,d,,da. thing we yaunot hinder.
hgt sel my life with all itg sip
OF Nomllmes when moods are tend,