George Preston Davis

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George Preston Davis

Birth
Knoxville, Knox County, Tennessee, USA
Death
10 Dec 1909 (aged 81)
Salem, Utah County, Utah, USA
Burial
Salem, Utah County, Utah, USA
Plot
Block 26, Lot 4
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Deseret News, December 15, 1909

GEORGE PRESTON DAVIS - At Salem, Utah, December 10, 1909, George Preston Davis, son of Henry and Rachel Hunter Davis, departed this life, cause of death being old age and general debility. He was born in Knoxville, Overton County, Tenn., April 6, 1828 and was baptized into the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, in Nauvoo, Ill., May 20, 1842. He worked a long while on the erection of the temple of that place, and shared with the saints in their mobbings and persecutions of those early days. He came to Utah with his father's family in 1849, and on Dec 3, 1850 he was married to Sarah Elizabeth Lewis, who died in 1866. They had six children born to them, of whom four survive. On July 28, 1873, he married Mary Hazel, who died April 30, this year [1909]. She bore him 13 children, of whom five survive. He was a zealous Church member. He was a resident of Springville, Utah county, some eight years before he came to Salem in 1866, where he till recently has followed the occupation of a farmer. In the Indian troubles of the earlier settling of this state he took an active part as a protector of life and home and was a member of the Black Hawk War veterans.
Deseret News, December 15, 1909

GEORGE PRESTON DAVIS - At Salem, Utah, December 10, 1909, George Preston Davis, son of Henry and Rachel Hunter Davis, departed this life, cause of death being old age and general debility. He was born in Knoxville, Overton County, Tenn., April 6, 1828 and was baptized into the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, in Nauvoo, Ill., May 20, 1842. He worked a long while on the erection of the temple of that place, and shared with the saints in their mobbings and persecutions of those early days. He came to Utah with his father's family in 1849, and on Dec 3, 1850 he was married to Sarah Elizabeth Lewis, who died in 1866. They had six children born to them, of whom four survive. On July 28, 1873, he married Mary Hazel, who died April 30, this year [1909]. She bore him 13 children, of whom five survive. He was a zealous Church member. He was a resident of Springville, Utah county, some eight years before he came to Salem in 1866, where he till recently has followed the occupation of a farmer. In the Indian troubles of the earlier settling of this state he took an active part as a protector of life and home and was a member of the Black Hawk War veterans.

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