"The Sabbath Recorder", Vol 115, No 1, p 8, July 3, 1933.
(From an obituary, read by Edwin Shaw, at the time of the funeral service.)
Grant Winfield Davis, son of Samuel A. and Emma Dickerson Davis, was born in Adams Center, N. Y., September 3, 1868, and died in the town of Milton, Wis., April 28, 1933, in the sixty-fifth year of his life.
He was educated in the public schools of his home, and at Adams Collegiate Institute, from which institution he was graduated in the class of 1888, when he was twenty years old. For several terms he taught school, and then entered upon a course of study in law and was admitted to the bar in New York in 1894. He came west in 1915 and located In Milton. That same year he was admitted to the bar of Wisconsin and became a member of the Janesville Bar Association.
During these eighteen years of residence in Milton he has practiced his profession here and in neighboring towns and communities with honor and credit to himself, his friends, and his profession, winning the confidence and esteem of his associates in law, his clients, and the public in general. His conscientious adherence to his personal convictions is well illustrated by the fact that when recently an opening to a most attractive position in his profession was presented to him, a work in which he would have taken great satisfaction, he reluctantly declined, because of his views and practice concerning the seventh day of the week as the Sa!bbath.
When thirteen years old Mr. Davis made a public profession of Christianity, was baptized, and became a member of the Adams Center Seventh Day Baptist Church, establishing a fellowship which he held so dear and which meant so much to him that it was only after several years of residence in Milton, and on the occasion of the baptism of his daughter, that he brought himself to the point of transferring his membership to the Milton Seventh Day Baptist Church. He was a trustee, and chairman of the building committee, of the church at the time of his death. This was a task to which he gladly gave a large amount of time and thought, a task, the burden of which, no doubt, was one, of the causes which contributed to the mental break-down which resulted in his death.
Mr. Davis was married April 25, 1908, to Miss Charlotte Crumb of Milton, Wis., by Rev. L. A. Platts, the twenty-fifth anniversary of which occasion was celebrated here one week ago. Their home for seven years was in his native town, and one of my most happy and pleasant memories is that of my first visit to Adams Center, in attendance at a religious gathering, when I was entertained at the home of Mr. and, Mrs. Davis and enjoyed their cordial and delightful hospitality. There is one child, a daughter, Gertrude Viola, who, with the wife, survive to hold in happy, grateful memory the life of loving, loyal service of father and. husband. The only other near relative surviving is a sister, Viola, Mrs. Jay Williams of Milton Junction, Wis.
As it was in Adams Center, so it has been here these eighteen years in Milton. Mr. Davis has taken an active, helpful part in the religious and civic interests of the community. For several years he has been a member of the
Board of Trustees of Milton College, serving as vice president of the board and as an efficient member of various committees. Recently, because of other work, he resigned these positions, but his resignation had not been accepted by the board, and so at the time of his death he still held these offices of trust, although he had not been active for a year or so.
He was an interested and influential member of the Church Brotherhood, and of the Milton Civic Club. He looked upon life earnestly and seriously, perhaps too seriously for his own physical and mental well-being. He could not be induced to enter into sports, or games; golf; tennis, checkers, ball, croquet, none of these things held much of an appeal to him. Life was too important, too serious a matter to be spent in such ways. I do not know that he censured others who indulged in the relaxations of such things. I never heard that he did; but for him other matters were of more importance. His sense of responsibility was acute. If counsel and advice which he gave did not eventuate happily, his concern caused him deep distress. This temperament combined with heavy work and advancing years and. attendant worry wrought a strain and stress upon his nervous system with the sad result that we all so deeply lament. But a worthy, highly respected, noble man of our church has gone, gone from his profession, from the community, from his friends, from his home. Let us draw the cover of loving chanty over the sad ending, and remember only the bright and happy and helpful elements of all the years of his sojourn among us, years of steadfast, upright, courteous, true integrity of Christian character. Let us be grateful for these memories of the past, memories of a happy, helpful life, not gone or lost with the passing of the earthly body, but a life continuing on and on in other lives made richer far and better yet because of what he accomplished, because of what he was. And may these thoughts bring comfort, courage, strength, and consolation to every stricken heart, to lives and homes that are bereaved, and fill the passing hours of loneliness with meditations that are sweet and glad and satisfying to the soul. Amen.
(From an obituary, read by Edwin Shaw, at the time of the funeral service.)
Grant Winfield Davis, son of Samuel A. and Emma Dickerson Davis, was born in Adams Center, N. Y., September 3, 1868, and died in the town of Milton, Wis., April 28, 1933, in the sixty-fifth year of his life.
He was educated in the public schools of his home, and at Adams Collegiate Institute, from which institution he was graduated in the class of 1888, when he was twenty years old. For several terms he taught school, and then entered upon a course of study in law and was admitted to the bar in New York in 1894. He came west in 1915 and located In Milton. That same year he was admitted to the bar of Wisconsin and became a member of the Janesville Bar Association.
During these eighteen years of residence in Milton he has practiced his profession here and in neighboring towns and communities with honor and credit to himself, his friends, and his profession, winning the confidence and esteem of his associates in law, his clients, and the public in general. His conscientious adherence to his personal convictions is well illustrated by the fact that when recently an opening to a most attractive position in his profession was presented to him, a work in which he would have taken great satisfaction, he reluctantly declined, because of his views and practice concerning the seventh day of the week as the Sa!bbath.
When thirteen years old Mr. Davis made a public profession of Christianity, was baptized, and became a member of the Adams Center Seventh Day Baptist Church, establishing a fellowship which he held so dear and which meant so much to him that it was only after several years of residence in Milton, and on the occasion of the baptism of his daughter, that he brought himself to the point of transferring his membership to the Milton Seventh Day Baptist Church. He was a trustee, and chairman of the building committee, of the church at the time of his death. This was a task to which he gladly gave a large amount of time and thought, a task, the burden of which, no doubt, was one, of the causes which contributed to the mental break-down which resulted in his death.
Mr. Davis was married April 25, 1908, to Miss Charlotte Crumb of Milton, Wis., by Rev. L. A. Platts, the twenty-fifth anniversary of which occasion was celebrated here one week ago. Their home for seven years was in his native town, and one of my most happy and pleasant memories is that of my first visit to Adams Center, in attendance at a religious gathering, when I was entertained at the home of Mr. and, Mrs. Davis and enjoyed their cordial and delightful hospitality. There is one child, a daughter, Gertrude Viola, who, with the wife, survive to hold in happy, grateful memory the life of loving, loyal service of father and. husband. The only other near relative surviving is a sister, Viola, Mrs. Jay Williams of Milton Junction, Wis.
As it was in Adams Center, so it has been here these eighteen years in Milton. Mr. Davis has taken an active, helpful part in the religious and civic interests of the community. For several years he has been a member of the
Board of Trustees of Milton College, serving as vice president of the board and as an efficient member of various committees. Recently, because of other work, he resigned these positions, but his resignation had not been accepted by the board, and so at the time of his death he still held these offices of trust, although he had not been active for a year or so.
He was an interested and influential member of the Church Brotherhood, and of the Milton Civic Club. He looked upon life earnestly and seriously, perhaps too seriously for his own physical and mental well-being. He could not be induced to enter into sports, or games; golf; tennis, checkers, ball, croquet, none of these things held much of an appeal to him. Life was too important, too serious a matter to be spent in such ways. I do not know that he censured others who indulged in the relaxations of such things. I never heard that he did; but for him other matters were of more importance. His sense of responsibility was acute. If counsel and advice which he gave did not eventuate happily, his concern caused him deep distress. This temperament combined with heavy work and advancing years and. attendant worry wrought a strain and stress upon his nervous system with the sad result that we all so deeply lament. But a worthy, highly respected, noble man of our church has gone, gone from his profession, from the community, from his friends, from his home. Let us draw the cover of loving chanty over the sad ending, and remember only the bright and happy and helpful elements of all the years of his sojourn among us, years of steadfast, upright, courteous, true integrity of Christian character. Let us be grateful for these memories of the past, memories of a happy, helpful life, not gone or lost with the passing of the earthly body, but a life continuing on and on in other lives made richer far and better yet because of what he accomplished, because of what he was. And may these thoughts bring comfort, courage, strength, and consolation to every stricken heart, to lives and homes that are bereaved, and fill the passing hours of loneliness with meditations that are sweet and glad and satisfying to the soul. Amen.
"The Sabbath Recorder", Vol 115, No 1, p 8, July 3, 1933.
(From an obituary, read by Edwin Shaw, at the time of the funeral service.)
Grant Winfield Davis, son of Samuel A. and Emma Dickerson Davis, was born in Adams Center, N. Y., September 3, 1868, and died in the town of Milton, Wis., April 28, 1933, in the sixty-fifth year of his life.
He was educated in the public schools of his home, and at Adams Collegiate Institute, from which institution he was graduated in the class of 1888, when he was twenty years old. For several terms he taught school, and then entered upon a course of study in law and was admitted to the bar in New York in 1894. He came west in 1915 and located In Milton. That same year he was admitted to the bar of Wisconsin and became a member of the Janesville Bar Association.
During these eighteen years of residence in Milton he has practiced his profession here and in neighboring towns and communities with honor and credit to himself, his friends, and his profession, winning the confidence and esteem of his associates in law, his clients, and the public in general. His conscientious adherence to his personal convictions is well illustrated by the fact that when recently an opening to a most attractive position in his profession was presented to him, a work in which he would have taken great satisfaction, he reluctantly declined, because of his views and practice concerning the seventh day of the week as the Sa!bbath.
When thirteen years old Mr. Davis made a public profession of Christianity, was baptized, and became a member of the Adams Center Seventh Day Baptist Church, establishing a fellowship which he held so dear and which meant so much to him that it was only after several years of residence in Milton, and on the occasion of the baptism of his daughter, that he brought himself to the point of transferring his membership to the Milton Seventh Day Baptist Church. He was a trustee, and chairman of the building committee, of the church at the time of his death. This was a task to which he gladly gave a large amount of time and thought, a task, the burden of which, no doubt, was one, of the causes which contributed to the mental break-down which resulted in his death.
Mr. Davis was married April 25, 1908, to Miss Charlotte Crumb of Milton, Wis., by Rev. L. A. Platts, the twenty-fifth anniversary of which occasion was celebrated here one week ago. Their home for seven years was in his native town, and one of my most happy and pleasant memories is that of my first visit to Adams Center, in attendance at a religious gathering, when I was entertained at the home of Mr. and, Mrs. Davis and enjoyed their cordial and delightful hospitality. There is one child, a daughter, Gertrude Viola, who, with the wife, survive to hold in happy, grateful memory the life of loving, loyal service of father and. husband. The only other near relative surviving is a sister, Viola, Mrs. Jay Williams of Milton Junction, Wis.
As it was in Adams Center, so it has been here these eighteen years in Milton. Mr. Davis has taken an active, helpful part in the religious and civic interests of the community. For several years he has been a member of the
Board of Trustees of Milton College, serving as vice president of the board and as an efficient member of various committees. Recently, because of other work, he resigned these positions, but his resignation had not been accepted by the board, and so at the time of his death he still held these offices of trust, although he had not been active for a year or so.
He was an interested and influential member of the Church Brotherhood, and of the Milton Civic Club. He looked upon life earnestly and seriously, perhaps too seriously for his own physical and mental well-being. He could not be induced to enter into sports, or games; golf; tennis, checkers, ball, croquet, none of these things held much of an appeal to him. Life was too important, too serious a matter to be spent in such ways. I do not know that he censured others who indulged in the relaxations of such things. I never heard that he did; but for him other matters were of more importance. His sense of responsibility was acute. If counsel and advice which he gave did not eventuate happily, his concern caused him deep distress. This temperament combined with heavy work and advancing years and. attendant worry wrought a strain and stress upon his nervous system with the sad result that we all so deeply lament. But a worthy, highly respected, noble man of our church has gone, gone from his profession, from the community, from his friends, from his home. Let us draw the cover of loving chanty over the sad ending, and remember only the bright and happy and helpful elements of all the years of his sojourn among us, years of steadfast, upright, courteous, true integrity of Christian character. Let us be grateful for these memories of the past, memories of a happy, helpful life, not gone or lost with the passing of the earthly body, but a life continuing on and on in other lives made richer far and better yet because of what he accomplished, because of what he was. And may these thoughts bring comfort, courage, strength, and consolation to every stricken heart, to lives and homes that are bereaved, and fill the passing hours of loneliness with meditations that are sweet and glad and satisfying to the soul. Amen.
(From an obituary, read by Edwin Shaw, at the time of the funeral service.)
Grant Winfield Davis, son of Samuel A. and Emma Dickerson Davis, was born in Adams Center, N. Y., September 3, 1868, and died in the town of Milton, Wis., April 28, 1933, in the sixty-fifth year of his life.
He was educated in the public schools of his home, and at Adams Collegiate Institute, from which institution he was graduated in the class of 1888, when he was twenty years old. For several terms he taught school, and then entered upon a course of study in law and was admitted to the bar in New York in 1894. He came west in 1915 and located In Milton. That same year he was admitted to the bar of Wisconsin and became a member of the Janesville Bar Association.
During these eighteen years of residence in Milton he has practiced his profession here and in neighboring towns and communities with honor and credit to himself, his friends, and his profession, winning the confidence and esteem of his associates in law, his clients, and the public in general. His conscientious adherence to his personal convictions is well illustrated by the fact that when recently an opening to a most attractive position in his profession was presented to him, a work in which he would have taken great satisfaction, he reluctantly declined, because of his views and practice concerning the seventh day of the week as the Sa!bbath.
When thirteen years old Mr. Davis made a public profession of Christianity, was baptized, and became a member of the Adams Center Seventh Day Baptist Church, establishing a fellowship which he held so dear and which meant so much to him that it was only after several years of residence in Milton, and on the occasion of the baptism of his daughter, that he brought himself to the point of transferring his membership to the Milton Seventh Day Baptist Church. He was a trustee, and chairman of the building committee, of the church at the time of his death. This was a task to which he gladly gave a large amount of time and thought, a task, the burden of which, no doubt, was one, of the causes which contributed to the mental break-down which resulted in his death.
Mr. Davis was married April 25, 1908, to Miss Charlotte Crumb of Milton, Wis., by Rev. L. A. Platts, the twenty-fifth anniversary of which occasion was celebrated here one week ago. Their home for seven years was in his native town, and one of my most happy and pleasant memories is that of my first visit to Adams Center, in attendance at a religious gathering, when I was entertained at the home of Mr. and, Mrs. Davis and enjoyed their cordial and delightful hospitality. There is one child, a daughter, Gertrude Viola, who, with the wife, survive to hold in happy, grateful memory the life of loving, loyal service of father and. husband. The only other near relative surviving is a sister, Viola, Mrs. Jay Williams of Milton Junction, Wis.
As it was in Adams Center, so it has been here these eighteen years in Milton. Mr. Davis has taken an active, helpful part in the religious and civic interests of the community. For several years he has been a member of the
Board of Trustees of Milton College, serving as vice president of the board and as an efficient member of various committees. Recently, because of other work, he resigned these positions, but his resignation had not been accepted by the board, and so at the time of his death he still held these offices of trust, although he had not been active for a year or so.
He was an interested and influential member of the Church Brotherhood, and of the Milton Civic Club. He looked upon life earnestly and seriously, perhaps too seriously for his own physical and mental well-being. He could not be induced to enter into sports, or games; golf; tennis, checkers, ball, croquet, none of these things held much of an appeal to him. Life was too important, too serious a matter to be spent in such ways. I do not know that he censured others who indulged in the relaxations of such things. I never heard that he did; but for him other matters were of more importance. His sense of responsibility was acute. If counsel and advice which he gave did not eventuate happily, his concern caused him deep distress. This temperament combined with heavy work and advancing years and. attendant worry wrought a strain and stress upon his nervous system with the sad result that we all so deeply lament. But a worthy, highly respected, noble man of our church has gone, gone from his profession, from the community, from his friends, from his home. Let us draw the cover of loving chanty over the sad ending, and remember only the bright and happy and helpful elements of all the years of his sojourn among us, years of steadfast, upright, courteous, true integrity of Christian character. Let us be grateful for these memories of the past, memories of a happy, helpful life, not gone or lost with the passing of the earthly body, but a life continuing on and on in other lives made richer far and better yet because of what he accomplished, because of what he was. And may these thoughts bring comfort, courage, strength, and consolation to every stricken heart, to lives and homes that are bereaved, and fill the passing hours of loneliness with meditations that are sweet and glad and satisfying to the soul. Amen.
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