Tombstone Tuesday - Wm. and Clarissa Davis

Dr. Wm. C. Davis
Lick Creek, Ill.
Aug. 13, 1871
Smithland, Ky
Mar. 30, 1941

Clarissa Mary Elliott
His Wife
Greenville, Ohio
Sept. 25, 1878
Smithland, Ky
Jan. 11, 1926

Buried Smithland Cemetery, Smithland, Kentucky. Tombstone photographed April 2009. Click on photo for enlarged view.

According to Kentucky death certificate #8136 (1941), Dr. William C. Davis was the son of William Marshall Davis and Addie Clemens. Death certificate #2262 (1926) shows that Clarissa Mary Elliott was the daughter of Jas. C. Elliott and Sue S. Scott, both born Preble County, Ohio. She died in Riverside Hospital, Paducah, Kentucky.

Dr. Davis' obituary in the Paducah Sun-Democrat, 31 March 1941,  states he practiced medicine in Smithland for 20 years and in the county for many years prior to that. He was a native of Lola, Livingston County, and graduated from the University of Louisville Medical School.