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Born: July 5, 1845, Fairfield, TN
Died: August 15, 1881, Bedford County, TN
Married: Margaret A. Jennings
February 3, 1876 — Wartrace, TNChildren:
Eudora Davis Allen
Benjamin F. Davis, II
Gertrude Davis (died at birth)
Sara Blanche Davis Howard LynnSiblings:
Henry, Thomas, Nancy, John
Samuel, Emma and Robert DavisParents:
Frances Burt and John Davis
Very little information is available about Ben Davis. I do know he was educated at Normal College, Winchester, Tennessee, and was a merchant by profession. Both US census and Wartrace, TN, records of the era indicate that he owned a business and was listed as a merchant in that town.
Ben's father, John Sims Davis, was one of the founders of a vanished town, Fairfield, TN. Fairfield was developed on speculation that the railroad line would run through there, but a different route was selected instead. Without the railroad, the town gradually disappeared, but is well documented by Tennessee historians.
My great-grandmother was his second wife, but details about his first mariage are unknown. He does not seem to have had children from the earlier marriage. There is an earlier marriage record on file in Wartrace for a B.F. Davis and Kitty Scruggs, who was his first wife. The signature on the marriage certificate appears to be his signature; more telling is that he is buried next to her in Fairfield.
Ben died at his mother's home in Bedford County, Tennessee, of an undisclosed illness, at age thirty-six.
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