"The Sabbath Recorder", Vol 163, No 19, p 16, Nov. 18, 1957.
Hannah Frances Van Horn Davis, daughter of Sarah Furrow and Lewis Van Horn, was born in Shelby County near Jackson Center, Ohio, Dec. 25, 1873, and died May 28, 1957, at the home of her son Aubrey, west of North Loup, Neb., where she had made her home since 1943.
She moved with her family by covered wagon to a farm northwest of Humboldt, Neb., when she was five years old. She was baptized Aug. 15, 1888, by Rev. Uri Babcock, and joined the Long Branch Seventh Day Baptist Church.
On Dec. 25, 1891, she was married to Ruben Jay Davis, who died in 1941. They became charter members of the Farnam Seventh Day Baptist Church. In 1919 they moved to a farm near North Loup, and joined the North Loup Seventh Day Baptist Church, of which they were faithful members the remainder of their lives.
Surviving besides her son Aubrey are four daughters: Mrs. Earl Babcock of Gentry, Ark.; Mrs. Riley Brannon of North Loup; Mrs. Ernest Thorngate of Battle Creek, Mich.; Mrs. Herman Swanson of Ericson, Neb.; 20 grandchildren, and 24 great-grandchildren.
Farewell services were conducted from her church in North Loup by Rev. Ralph Sawyer. Burial was in the local cemetery beside her husband.
M. G. S.
Hannah Frances Van Horn Davis, daughter of Sarah Furrow and Lewis Van Horn, was born in Shelby County near Jackson Center, Ohio, Dec. 25, 1873, and died May 28, 1957, at the home of her son Aubrey, west of North Loup, Neb., where she had made her home since 1943.
She moved with her family by covered wagon to a farm northwest of Humboldt, Neb., when she was five years old. She was baptized Aug. 15, 1888, by Rev. Uri Babcock, and joined the Long Branch Seventh Day Baptist Church.
On Dec. 25, 1891, she was married to Ruben Jay Davis, who died in 1941. They became charter members of the Farnam Seventh Day Baptist Church. In 1919 they moved to a farm near North Loup, and joined the North Loup Seventh Day Baptist Church, of which they were faithful members the remainder of their lives.
Surviving besides her son Aubrey are four daughters: Mrs. Earl Babcock of Gentry, Ark.; Mrs. Riley Brannon of North Loup; Mrs. Ernest Thorngate of Battle Creek, Mich.; Mrs. Herman Swanson of Ericson, Neb.; 20 grandchildren, and 24 great-grandchildren.
Farewell services were conducted from her church in North Loup by Rev. Ralph Sawyer. Burial was in the local cemetery beside her husband.
M. G. S.
"The Sabbath Recorder", Vol 163, No 19, p 16, Nov. 18, 1957.
Hannah Frances Van Horn Davis, daughter of Sarah Furrow and Lewis Van Horn, was born in Shelby County near Jackson Center, Ohio, Dec. 25, 1873, and died May 28, 1957, at the home of her son Aubrey, west of North Loup, Neb., where she had made her home since 1943.
She moved with her family by covered wagon to a farm northwest of Humboldt, Neb., when she was five years old. She was baptized Aug. 15, 1888, by Rev. Uri Babcock, and joined the Long Branch Seventh Day Baptist Church.
On Dec. 25, 1891, she was married to Ruben Jay Davis, who died in 1941. They became charter members of the Farnam Seventh Day Baptist Church. In 1919 they moved to a farm near North Loup, and joined the North Loup Seventh Day Baptist Church, of which they were faithful members the remainder of their lives.
Surviving besides her son Aubrey are four daughters: Mrs. Earl Babcock of Gentry, Ark.; Mrs. Riley Brannon of North Loup; Mrs. Ernest Thorngate of Battle Creek, Mich.; Mrs. Herman Swanson of Ericson, Neb.; 20 grandchildren, and 24 great-grandchildren.
Farewell services were conducted from her church in North Loup by Rev. Ralph Sawyer. Burial was in the local cemetery beside her husband.
M. G. S.
Hannah Frances Van Horn Davis, daughter of Sarah Furrow and Lewis Van Horn, was born in Shelby County near Jackson Center, Ohio, Dec. 25, 1873, and died May 28, 1957, at the home of her son Aubrey, west of North Loup, Neb., where she had made her home since 1943.
She moved with her family by covered wagon to a farm northwest of Humboldt, Neb., when she was five years old. She was baptized Aug. 15, 1888, by Rev. Uri Babcock, and joined the Long Branch Seventh Day Baptist Church.
On Dec. 25, 1891, she was married to Ruben Jay Davis, who died in 1941. They became charter members of the Farnam Seventh Day Baptist Church. In 1919 they moved to a farm near North Loup, and joined the North Loup Seventh Day Baptist Church, of which they were faithful members the remainder of their lives.
Surviving besides her son Aubrey are four daughters: Mrs. Earl Babcock of Gentry, Ark.; Mrs. Riley Brannon of North Loup; Mrs. Ernest Thorngate of Battle Creek, Mich.; Mrs. Herman Swanson of Ericson, Neb.; 20 grandchildren, and 24 great-grandchildren.
Farewell services were conducted from her church in North Loup by Rev. Ralph Sawyer. Burial was in the local cemetery beside her husband.
M. G. S.
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