In gleaming of his life history, it is well recorded by the Historical Society of Missouri and a reprint of the paragraphs in the referred to volumes follows:
WYLIE L. DAVIS
Mr. Davis was born at Clifton, Tennessee in 1873 and his mother died at his birth. His father, Benjamin Franklin Davis, was also a native of Tennessee. Wyley L. Davis grew up among relatives and at the age of fourteen ran away from home and has solved the successive problems of life as they have arisen without aid from anyone but himself. In 1891 he came to Sanford, Missouri, and in 1906 he went to work in a store at Holland. Some of his early employment in Pemiscot County was on a farm near Steele, and he helped construct a number of levees in this vicinity. He became a timber dealer, and during the past quarter of a century has been active in both business and public affairs. In November, 1927, Mr. Davis established a plant at Lake City, Arkansas, for the manufacture of egg cases and also finished lumber material. The office of this business was at Steele.
Mr. Davis in 1897 married Miss Anna Sanford, who was born at Sanford, Missouri, the daughter of John A. Sanford. She died in 1908, leaving four children: Virgil, of Caruthersville, Delmer J., of Steele, Alva H., of Bragg City, and Mrs. Gladys Freddie Collins, of near Steele. In 1909 Mr. Davis married Nannie (Griffin) Campbell, who was born in Tennessee, daughter of Rev. T.B. Griffin. Mrs. Davis by her first husband, John Campbell, has three children, Ludie, Bailey and Cecil, all residing at Steele.
Mr. Davis has been a loyal friend of education, and has given a total service of twenty-five years as president of the school board, seventeen years of that time in Steele. He was postmaster of Sanford, Missouri for twelve years, for six years was a justice of the peace, and from 1924 until 1934 was public administrator of Pemiscot County. Mr. Davis was a Republican and a member of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows.
Wylie L. Davis, 63, well and favorably known in a long career as public official and school director, answered the final summons Tuesday night at his home in this city. Mr. Davis had been confined to his home for several months, with pernicious anemna, yet to his last hours remained active and interested in affairs and business that had made up his life and gained for him recognition as progressive and a factor in the advancement of his county and home community.
Funeral services were held Thursday afternoon in the High School auditorium, conducted by Rev. M.A. Massey, pastor of the M.E. Church, Rev. J.W. Cunningham, pastor of the Baptist Church, and Rev. W.M. Duncan, a retired minister. With the German Undertaking Co. in charge, burial was made in the Mt. Zion cemetery.
The servies were impressive of the high esteem in which he was held.
Active pall bears were Supt. C.E. Miller, T.A. Haggard, L.J. Woods, Ralph L. Capps, Carl E. Hughes, S.B. Myrant and William Owens.
Honorary pall bearers were W.O. Alexander, W.E. Wright, Ollie Story, W.E. Taylor, Fred Holloman, Major Fred Kelley and T.W. Whitfield.
The Steele high school basketball girls were the flower bearers.
Steele Enterprise - Steele, Missouri - Thursday, January 10, 1935
SON: Delmar Davis (1900-1965) Mount Zion Cemetery, Steele, Mo.
WYLIE L. DAVIS
Mr. Davis was born at Clifton, Tennessee in 1873 and his mother died at his birth. His father, Benjamin Franklin Davis, was also a native of Tennessee. Wyley L. Davis grew up among relatives and at the age of fourteen ran away from home and has solved the successive problems of life as they have arisen without aid from anyone but himself. In 1891 he came to Sanford, Missouri, and in 1906 he went to work in a store at Holland. Some of his early employment in Pemiscot County was on a farm near Steele, and he helped construct a number of levees in this vicinity. He became a timber dealer, and during the past quarter of a century has been active in both business and public affairs. In November, 1927, Mr. Davis established a plant at Lake City, Arkansas, for the manufacture of egg cases and also finished lumber material. The office of this business was at Steele.
Mr. Davis in 1897 married Miss Anna Sanford, who was born at Sanford, Missouri, the daughter of John A. Sanford. She died in 1908, leaving four children: Virgil, of Caruthersville, Delmer J., of Steele, Alva H., of Bragg City, and Mrs. Gladys Freddie Collins, of near Steele. In 1909 Mr. Davis married Nannie (Griffin) Campbell, who was born in Tennessee, daughter of Rev. T.B. Griffin. Mrs. Davis by her first husband, John Campbell, has three children, Ludie, Bailey and Cecil, all residing at Steele.
Mr. Davis has been a loyal friend of education, and has given a total service of twenty-five years as president of the school board, seventeen years of that time in Steele. He was postmaster of Sanford, Missouri for twelve years, for six years was a justice of the peace, and from 1924 until 1934 was public administrator of Pemiscot County. Mr. Davis was a Republican and a member of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows.
Wylie L. Davis, 63, well and favorably known in a long career as public official and school director, answered the final summons Tuesday night at his home in this city. Mr. Davis had been confined to his home for several months, with pernicious anemna, yet to his last hours remained active and interested in affairs and business that had made up his life and gained for him recognition as progressive and a factor in the advancement of his county and home community.
Funeral services were held Thursday afternoon in the High School auditorium, conducted by Rev. M.A. Massey, pastor of the M.E. Church, Rev. J.W. Cunningham, pastor of the Baptist Church, and Rev. W.M. Duncan, a retired minister. With the German Undertaking Co. in charge, burial was made in the Mt. Zion cemetery.
The servies were impressive of the high esteem in which he was held.
Active pall bears were Supt. C.E. Miller, T.A. Haggard, L.J. Woods, Ralph L. Capps, Carl E. Hughes, S.B. Myrant and William Owens.
Honorary pall bearers were W.O. Alexander, W.E. Wright, Ollie Story, W.E. Taylor, Fred Holloman, Major Fred Kelley and T.W. Whitfield.
The Steele high school basketball girls were the flower bearers.
Steele Enterprise - Steele, Missouri - Thursday, January 10, 1935
SON: Delmar Davis (1900-1965) Mount Zion Cemetery, Steele, Mo.
In gleaming of his life history, it is well recorded by the Historical Society of Missouri and a reprint of the paragraphs in the referred to volumes follows:
WYLIE L. DAVIS
Mr. Davis was born at Clifton, Tennessee in 1873 and his mother died at his birth. His father, Benjamin Franklin Davis, was also a native of Tennessee. Wyley L. Davis grew up among relatives and at the age of fourteen ran away from home and has solved the successive problems of life as they have arisen without aid from anyone but himself. In 1891 he came to Sanford, Missouri, and in 1906 he went to work in a store at Holland. Some of his early employment in Pemiscot County was on a farm near Steele, and he helped construct a number of levees in this vicinity. He became a timber dealer, and during the past quarter of a century has been active in both business and public affairs. In November, 1927, Mr. Davis established a plant at Lake City, Arkansas, for the manufacture of egg cases and also finished lumber material. The office of this business was at Steele.
Mr. Davis in 1897 married Miss Anna Sanford, who was born at Sanford, Missouri, the daughter of John A. Sanford. She died in 1908, leaving four children: Virgil, of Caruthersville, Delmer J., of Steele, Alva H., of Bragg City, and Mrs. Gladys Freddie Collins, of near Steele. In 1909 Mr. Davis married Nannie (Griffin) Campbell, who was born in Tennessee, daughter of Rev. T.B. Griffin. Mrs. Davis by her first husband, John Campbell, has three children, Ludie, Bailey and Cecil, all residing at Steele.
Mr. Davis has been a loyal friend of education, and has given a total service of twenty-five years as president of the school board, seventeen years of that time in Steele. He was postmaster of Sanford, Missouri for twelve years, for six years was a justice of the peace, and from 1924 until 1934 was public administrator of Pemiscot County. Mr. Davis was a Republican and a member of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows.
Wylie L. Davis, 63, well and favorably known in a long career as public official and school director, answered the final summons Tuesday night at his home in this city. Mr. Davis had been confined to his home for several months, with pernicious anemna, yet to his last hours remained active and interested in affairs and business that had made up his life and gained for him recognition as progressive and a factor in the advancement of his county and home community.
Funeral services were held Thursday afternoon in the High School auditorium, conducted by Rev. M.A. Massey, pastor of the M.E. Church, Rev. J.W. Cunningham, pastor of the Baptist Church, and Rev. W.M. Duncan, a retired minister. With the German Undertaking Co. in charge, burial was made in the Mt. Zion cemetery.
The servies were impressive of the high esteem in which he was held.
Active pall bears were Supt. C.E. Miller, T.A. Haggard, L.J. Woods, Ralph L. Capps, Carl E. Hughes, S.B. Myrant and William Owens.
Honorary pall bearers were W.O. Alexander, W.E. Wright, Ollie Story, W.E. Taylor, Fred Holloman, Major Fred Kelley and T.W. Whitfield.
The Steele high school basketball girls were the flower bearers.
Steele Enterprise - Steele, Missouri - Thursday, January 10, 1935
SON: Delmar Davis (1900-1965) Mount Zion Cemetery, Steele, Mo.
WYLIE L. DAVIS
Mr. Davis was born at Clifton, Tennessee in 1873 and his mother died at his birth. His father, Benjamin Franklin Davis, was also a native of Tennessee. Wyley L. Davis grew up among relatives and at the age of fourteen ran away from home and has solved the successive problems of life as they have arisen without aid from anyone but himself. In 1891 he came to Sanford, Missouri, and in 1906 he went to work in a store at Holland. Some of his early employment in Pemiscot County was on a farm near Steele, and he helped construct a number of levees in this vicinity. He became a timber dealer, and during the past quarter of a century has been active in both business and public affairs. In November, 1927, Mr. Davis established a plant at Lake City, Arkansas, for the manufacture of egg cases and also finished lumber material. The office of this business was at Steele.
Mr. Davis in 1897 married Miss Anna Sanford, who was born at Sanford, Missouri, the daughter of John A. Sanford. She died in 1908, leaving four children: Virgil, of Caruthersville, Delmer J., of Steele, Alva H., of Bragg City, and Mrs. Gladys Freddie Collins, of near Steele. In 1909 Mr. Davis married Nannie (Griffin) Campbell, who was born in Tennessee, daughter of Rev. T.B. Griffin. Mrs. Davis by her first husband, John Campbell, has three children, Ludie, Bailey and Cecil, all residing at Steele.
Mr. Davis has been a loyal friend of education, and has given a total service of twenty-five years as president of the school board, seventeen years of that time in Steele. He was postmaster of Sanford, Missouri for twelve years, for six years was a justice of the peace, and from 1924 until 1934 was public administrator of Pemiscot County. Mr. Davis was a Republican and a member of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows.
Wylie L. Davis, 63, well and favorably known in a long career as public official and school director, answered the final summons Tuesday night at his home in this city. Mr. Davis had been confined to his home for several months, with pernicious anemna, yet to his last hours remained active and interested in affairs and business that had made up his life and gained for him recognition as progressive and a factor in the advancement of his county and home community.
Funeral services were held Thursday afternoon in the High School auditorium, conducted by Rev. M.A. Massey, pastor of the M.E. Church, Rev. J.W. Cunningham, pastor of the Baptist Church, and Rev. W.M. Duncan, a retired minister. With the German Undertaking Co. in charge, burial was made in the Mt. Zion cemetery.
The servies were impressive of the high esteem in which he was held.
Active pall bears were Supt. C.E. Miller, T.A. Haggard, L.J. Woods, Ralph L. Capps, Carl E. Hughes, S.B. Myrant and William Owens.
Honorary pall bearers were W.O. Alexander, W.E. Wright, Ollie Story, W.E. Taylor, Fred Holloman, Major Fred Kelley and T.W. Whitfield.
The Steele high school basketball girls were the flower bearers.
Steele Enterprise - Steele, Missouri - Thursday, January 10, 1935
SON: Delmar Davis (1900-1965) Mount Zion Cemetery, Steele, Mo.
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