Southern Recorder, Milledgeville, Georgia, Tuesday Morning, November 18, 1834. Died, on the 8th inst, after forty days illness of typhus fever, at his residence in Morgan county, Mr. GRANT DAVIS, in the 50th year of his age. He was born in Wilkes county [sic], in this State [sic], in the year 1785. He was for the last thirty years, a zealous and exemplary member of the Baptist Church ; and died as he had lived, in the exercise of a firm, and unshaken faith in Christ ; often expressing in his last illness, a comfortable hope and joyful anticipation of a blessed immortality. He has left a wife and six children, together with numerous relatives and friends, and the Church of which he was a member, to mourn their irreparable loss.
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Marriage and children
Married on 14 July 1808, Wilkinson County, Georgia,
to Nancy Tate Anthony, with
-- Amanda F. 1809-1811
-- Milton Grant 1811-1863*
-- Emily A. 1812-1884
-- Wilson Lumkin 1818-1899
-- Mary Anne 1820-1909
-- Sarah Anthony 1822-/1865
-- Lucy Laura 1823-1909
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*Milton went to Texas ca. 1859 . . . burial location is unknown . . . he was once described as . . . a prosperous planter of antebellum days and cousin of ex-Governor HUBBARD of this State [i.e., Texas].
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Is this Milton Davis [said to be buried in Milam County, Texas] possibly his son or his grandson???
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Marriage and children
Married on 14 July 1808, Wilkinson County, Georgia,
to Nancy Tate Anthony, with
-- Amanda F. 1809-1811
-- Milton Grant 1811-1863*
-- Emily A. 1812-1884
-- Wilson Lumkin 1818-1899
-- Mary Anne 1820-1909
-- Sarah Anthony 1822-/1865
-- Lucy Laura 1823-1909
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*Milton went to Texas ca. 1859 . . . burial location is unknown . . . he was once described as . . . a prosperous planter of antebellum days and cousin of ex-Governor HUBBARD of this State [i.e., Texas].
. . . . . . . . . .
Is this Milton Davis [said to be buried in Milam County, Texas] possibly his son or his grandson???
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Southern Recorder, Milledgeville, Georgia, Tuesday Morning, November 18, 1834. Died, on the 8th inst, after forty days illness of typhus fever, at his residence in Morgan county, Mr. GRANT DAVIS, in the 50th year of his age. He was born in Wilkes county [sic], in this State [sic], in the year 1785. He was for the last thirty years, a zealous and exemplary member of the Baptist Church ; and died as he had lived, in the exercise of a firm, and unshaken faith in Christ ; often expressing in his last illness, a comfortable hope and joyful anticipation of a blessed immortality. He has left a wife and six children, together with numerous relatives and friends, and the Church of which he was a member, to mourn their irreparable loss.
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Marriage and children
Married on 14 July 1808, Wilkinson County, Georgia,
to Nancy Tate Anthony, with
-- Amanda F. 1809-1811
-- Milton Grant 1811-1863*
-- Emily A. 1812-1884
-- Wilson Lumkin 1818-1899
-- Mary Anne 1820-1909
-- Sarah Anthony 1822-/1865
-- Lucy Laura 1823-1909
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*Milton went to Texas ca. 1859 . . . burial location is unknown . . . he was once described as . . . a prosperous planter of antebellum days and cousin of ex-Governor HUBBARD of this State [i.e., Texas].
. . . . . . . . . .
Is this Milton Davis [said to be buried in Milam County, Texas] possibly his son or his grandson???
. . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . .
Marriage and children
Married on 14 July 1808, Wilkinson County, Georgia,
to Nancy Tate Anthony, with
-- Amanda F. 1809-1811
-- Milton Grant 1811-1863*
-- Emily A. 1812-1884
-- Wilson Lumkin 1818-1899
-- Mary Anne 1820-1909
-- Sarah Anthony 1822-/1865
-- Lucy Laura 1823-1909
. . . . . . . . . .
*Milton went to Texas ca. 1859 . . . burial location is unknown . . . he was once described as . . . a prosperous planter of antebellum days and cousin of ex-Governor HUBBARD of this State [i.e., Texas].
. . . . . . . . . .
Is this Milton Davis [said to be buried in Milam County, Texas] possibly his son or his grandson???
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Inscription
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In memory of
GRANT DAVIS.
Born July 18th, 1785.
Died Nov. 8th, 1834.
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A righteous man is here inter'd.
Whose faith in all his works appear'd.
A husband and a father dear.
Belov'd by all who knew him here.
Redeem'd by Christ, among the just.
His spirit waits its rising dust.
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Howl fir tree for the cedar is fallen.
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