THE MOMENCE PROGRESS
MOMENCE, ILLINOIS
THURSDAY, Aug. 30, 1929
AGED FATHER CALLED TO REST
Thomas J. Davis Passes Away at His Home in This City Last Tuesday Evening
The citizens of this city were shocked when they received news that Mr. T.J. Davis had died at 9:10 o'clock p.m. Tuesday evening, August 27, 1929, at his home on South Ash Street. He had been in feeble health for some months, but was able to be about most of the time and had only been confined to his bed about three weeks. On Tuesday morning he was unusually cheerful and bright and remarked that he was feeling much better, but in the afternoon he spoke to his family, saying he was suffering great pain. His physician was called and all that human skill could do, was done, but God had called and the spirit of the aged father answered the summons to enter into rest eternal.
Everything that medical skill and tender care by his children and loving friends could do was done, but to no avail. His sufferings were great but he bore them patiently and when he realized that death was near, he was resigned, and with a smile on his lips and his countenance beaming with a knowledge of saving grace, that he would soon go home and spoke to his children gathered about him of the joys so soon to be his and asked God's blessing upon them. He spoke of those so near and dear to him that he was so soon to meet and a few minutes after nine o'clock his spirit took it's flight to be forever with the redeemed.
Thomas J. David, son of Hiram and Kathryn Davis was born at Elizabethtown, Ind., Feb. 29, 1854 and passed away at the age of seventy-five years five months and twenty-nine days.
When a small boy he moved with his parents to Marshalltown, Iowa and there he grew to young manhood. He took locomotive engineering as his vocation, which he followed for more than forty-six years. His work later called him to Richmond, Ind., and in the year 1875 he was united in marriage to Miss Lavina Brown. To this union six children were born, four of whom are left to mourn the loss of a loving father. Two daughters preceded him in death, one dying in infancy, the other the wife of William Boudreau. In 1922 his life companion was taken, since which time he has been tenderly cared for by his children.
Besides his children, Mrs. Minnie Wisman of this city, Mrs. Margaret Dickerson of Cambridge City, Ind.; H.E. Davis of New Butler, Wis.; Ben H. Davis of Momence, he leaves an aged brother, George Davis of Marshalltown, Iowa, fifteen grandchildren and nine great grandchildren.
Deceased was a member of the Masonic order at Waukegan, Ill., and of Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers.
"Fleeting as the days of old,
Remember as a tale that's told,
We pass away.
The cradle is the starting place,
Life is the running of a race,
We reach the goal.
When in the mansions of the blest,
Death gives to itself eternal rest,
The weary soul."
Funeral services will be held this Friday afternoon at two o'clock from the First Baptist Church in charge of Rev. E.F. Muir. Interment will be made on the family lot in Momence cemetery.
THE MOMENCE PROGRESS
MOMENCE, ILLINOIS
THURSDAY, Aug. 30, 1929
AGED FATHER CALLED TO REST
Thomas J. Davis Passes Away at His Home in This City Last Tuesday Evening
The citizens of this city were shocked when they received news that Mr. T.J. Davis had died at 9:10 o'clock p.m. Tuesday evening, August 27, 1929, at his home on South Ash Street. He had been in feeble health for some months, but was able to be about most of the time and had only been confined to his bed about three weeks. On Tuesday morning he was unusually cheerful and bright and remarked that he was feeling much better, but in the afternoon he spoke to his family, saying he was suffering great pain. His physician was called and all that human skill could do, was done, but God had called and the spirit of the aged father answered the summons to enter into rest eternal.
Everything that medical skill and tender care by his children and loving friends could do was done, but to no avail. His sufferings were great but he bore them patiently and when he realized that death was near, he was resigned, and with a smile on his lips and his countenance beaming with a knowledge of saving grace, that he would soon go home and spoke to his children gathered about him of the joys so soon to be his and asked God's blessing upon them. He spoke of those so near and dear to him that he was so soon to meet and a few minutes after nine o'clock his spirit took it's flight to be forever with the redeemed.
Thomas J. David, son of Hiram and Kathryn Davis was born at Elizabethtown, Ind., Feb. 29, 1854 and passed away at the age of seventy-five years five months and twenty-nine days.
When a small boy he moved with his parents to Marshalltown, Iowa and there he grew to young manhood. He took locomotive engineering as his vocation, which he followed for more than forty-six years. His work later called him to Richmond, Ind., and in the year 1875 he was united in marriage to Miss Lavina Brown. To this union six children were born, four of whom are left to mourn the loss of a loving father. Two daughters preceded him in death, one dying in infancy, the other the wife of William Boudreau. In 1922 his life companion was taken, since which time he has been tenderly cared for by his children.
Besides his children, Mrs. Minnie Wisman of this city, Mrs. Margaret Dickerson of Cambridge City, Ind.; H.E. Davis of New Butler, Wis.; Ben H. Davis of Momence, he leaves an aged brother, George Davis of Marshalltown, Iowa, fifteen grandchildren and nine great grandchildren.
Deceased was a member of the Masonic order at Waukegan, Ill., and of Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers.
"Fleeting as the days of old,
Remember as a tale that's told,
We pass away.
The cradle is the starting place,
Life is the running of a race,
We reach the goal.
When in the mansions of the blest,
Death gives to itself eternal rest,
The weary soul."
Funeral services will be held this Friday afternoon at two o'clock from the First Baptist Church in charge of Rev. E.F. Muir. Interment will be made on the family lot in Momence cemetery.
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