Per his death certificate found on Ancestry.com: he was a son of Edmund Davis and Eliza J. Tradewell, both born in S.C. and the husband of Martha Williamson Davis. He was a retired shoe merchant. He died at 1526 Richland St. of arteriosclerosis and chronic interstitial nephritis. The informant was Mrs. E. P. Davis of Columbia, S.C.
Found in The State 11 February 1938: Funeral services for Edmund Percy Davis, one of Columbia's oldest and best citizens, will be held at 4 o'clock this afternoon at the First Presbyterian church, of which he was an elder, a former deacon and a devoted member, with interment to follow in Elmwood cemetery. Passing his 80th birthday only two weeks ago, Mr. Davis, a lifelong resident, died on the property on which he was born, January 25, 1858. His years took him through the Confederate was, through the trying Reconstruction times (when he served as on of Hampton's Red Shirts) and through the years that have wrought the Columbia of today out of the ashes of 1865. Mr. Davis, quiet, modest and retiring, but nevertheless keenly alert for his city had his part i the development that has come. He was devoted to his home and to his church. For years he was in the shoe business with his brother, the firm being E. P. and F. A. Davis, and he being president. With the advancing years of the two, they decided to retire and so closed a company that for years had operated on the 1700 block of Main street. His brother died in 1933. Mr. Davis was a son of Capt. Edmund Davis and Eliza Tradewell Davis, also lifelong Columbians. Only one sister, Mrs. P. H. Lachicojtte, survives of a family of three brothers and four sisters. Mr. Davis married Miss Martha Williamson of Virginia. She, with one son, Edwin Hayes (Jack) Davis, well known Columbia insurance man, survives. Two children, an infant son, who died in 1903, and a 9-year-old daughter, who died in 1904, predeceased him. He leaves several nieces and nephews. Mr. Davis was educated at the famous Thompson Male academy. Mr. Davis had been ill about four weeks. He died early yesterday morning at his home, 1526 Richland street. Because of the lateness of the hour only a brief notice was carried in The State yesterday morning. In Mr. Davis' death, Columbia loses a citizen whose long life was marked by integrity and high purpose of character, whose good deeds were usually done so quietly that none but he and those he aided knew of them.
Found in The State 11 February 1938: Funeral services for Edmund Percy Davis, one of Columbia's oldest and best citizens, will be held at 4 o'clock this afternoon at the First Presbyterian church, of which he was an elder, a former deacon and a devoted member, with interment to follow in Elmwood cemetery. Passing his 80th birthday only two weeks ago, Mr. Davis, a lifelong resident, died on the property on which he was born, January 25, 1858. His years took him through the Confederate was, through the trying Reconstruction times (when he served as on of Hampton's Red Shirts) and through the years that have wrought the Columbia of today out of the ashes of 1865. Mr. Davis, quiet, modest and retiring, but nevertheless keenly alert for his city had his part i the development that has come. He was devoted to his home and to his church. For years he was in the shoe business with his brother, the firm being E. P. and F. A. Davis, and he being president. With the advancing years of the two, they decided to retire and so closed a company that for years had operated on the 1700 block of Main street. His brother died in 1933. Mr. Davis was a son of Capt. Edmund Davis and Eliza Tradewell Davis, also lifelong Columbians. Only one sister, Mrs. P. H. Lachicojtte, survives of a family of three brothers and four sisters. Mr. Davis married Miss Martha Williamson of Virginia. She, with one son, Edwin Hayes (Jack) Davis, well known Columbia insurance man, survives. Two children, an infant son, who died in 1903, and a 9-year-old daughter, who died in 1904, predeceased him. He leaves several nieces and nephews. Mr. Davis was educated at the famous Thompson Male academy. Mr. Davis had been ill about four weeks. He died early yesterday morning at his home, 1526 Richland street. Because of the lateness of the hour only a brief notice was carried in The State yesterday morning. In Mr. Davis' death, Columbia loses a citizen whose long life was marked by integrity and high purpose of character, whose good deeds were usually done so quietly that none but he and those he aided knew of them.
Per his death certificate found on Ancestry.com: he was a son of Edmund Davis and Eliza J. Tradewell, both born in S.C. and the husband of Martha Williamson Davis. He was a retired shoe merchant. He died at 1526 Richland St. of arteriosclerosis and chronic interstitial nephritis. The informant was Mrs. E. P. Davis of Columbia, S.C.
Found in The State 11 February 1938: Funeral services for Edmund Percy Davis, one of Columbia's oldest and best citizens, will be held at 4 o'clock this afternoon at the First Presbyterian church, of which he was an elder, a former deacon and a devoted member, with interment to follow in Elmwood cemetery. Passing his 80th birthday only two weeks ago, Mr. Davis, a lifelong resident, died on the property on which he was born, January 25, 1858. His years took him through the Confederate was, through the trying Reconstruction times (when he served as on of Hampton's Red Shirts) and through the years that have wrought the Columbia of today out of the ashes of 1865. Mr. Davis, quiet, modest and retiring, but nevertheless keenly alert for his city had his part i the development that has come. He was devoted to his home and to his church. For years he was in the shoe business with his brother, the firm being E. P. and F. A. Davis, and he being president. With the advancing years of the two, they decided to retire and so closed a company that for years had operated on the 1700 block of Main street. His brother died in 1933. Mr. Davis was a son of Capt. Edmund Davis and Eliza Tradewell Davis, also lifelong Columbians. Only one sister, Mrs. P. H. Lachicojtte, survives of a family of three brothers and four sisters. Mr. Davis married Miss Martha Williamson of Virginia. She, with one son, Edwin Hayes (Jack) Davis, well known Columbia insurance man, survives. Two children, an infant son, who died in 1903, and a 9-year-old daughter, who died in 1904, predeceased him. He leaves several nieces and nephews. Mr. Davis was educated at the famous Thompson Male academy. Mr. Davis had been ill about four weeks. He died early yesterday morning at his home, 1526 Richland street. Because of the lateness of the hour only a brief notice was carried in The State yesterday morning. In Mr. Davis' death, Columbia loses a citizen whose long life was marked by integrity and high purpose of character, whose good deeds were usually done so quietly that none but he and those he aided knew of them.
Found in The State 11 February 1938: Funeral services for Edmund Percy Davis, one of Columbia's oldest and best citizens, will be held at 4 o'clock this afternoon at the First Presbyterian church, of which he was an elder, a former deacon and a devoted member, with interment to follow in Elmwood cemetery. Passing his 80th birthday only two weeks ago, Mr. Davis, a lifelong resident, died on the property on which he was born, January 25, 1858. His years took him through the Confederate was, through the trying Reconstruction times (when he served as on of Hampton's Red Shirts) and through the years that have wrought the Columbia of today out of the ashes of 1865. Mr. Davis, quiet, modest and retiring, but nevertheless keenly alert for his city had his part i the development that has come. He was devoted to his home and to his church. For years he was in the shoe business with his brother, the firm being E. P. and F. A. Davis, and he being president. With the advancing years of the two, they decided to retire and so closed a company that for years had operated on the 1700 block of Main street. His brother died in 1933. Mr. Davis was a son of Capt. Edmund Davis and Eliza Tradewell Davis, also lifelong Columbians. Only one sister, Mrs. P. H. Lachicojtte, survives of a family of three brothers and four sisters. Mr. Davis married Miss Martha Williamson of Virginia. She, with one son, Edwin Hayes (Jack) Davis, well known Columbia insurance man, survives. Two children, an infant son, who died in 1903, and a 9-year-old daughter, who died in 1904, predeceased him. He leaves several nieces and nephews. Mr. Davis was educated at the famous Thompson Male academy. Mr. Davis had been ill about four weeks. He died early yesterday morning at his home, 1526 Richland street. Because of the lateness of the hour only a brief notice was carried in The State yesterday morning. In Mr. Davis' death, Columbia loses a citizen whose long life was marked by integrity and high purpose of character, whose good deeds were usually done so quietly that none but he and those he aided knew of them.
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