Tombstone Tuesday - Joe M. Davis

Elizabeth M.

Wife of

J.M. Davis

May 12, 1863

Mar. 6, 1890

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Weller O. Son of

J.M. & E.M. Davis

Nov. 6, 1882 - Mar. 25, 1883

Joe M. Davis

Aug. 14, 1861

Mar. 3, 1944

Buried Green's Chapel Cemetery, Crittenden County, Kentucky. Tombstones photographed 2017.

Joe M. Davis married Elizabeth M., his first wife, ca 1881. Thus far, I have not found a marriage record for them. Three known children, Weller O., Edith C. and Verna, were born to this couple. Following Elizabeth's death, Joe M. Davis married Miss Mattie Lamb 7 October 1890.[1] He married, as his third wife,  Miss Ollie B. Martin 2 August 1892[2] and lastly[3], he married Mrs. Bettie Lamb 12 April 1899.

According to the death certificate of Joseph Marion Davis, [4] he was born in Wilson County, Tennessee and was the son of Anderson Davis and Narcissus Campbell, who were also born in Tennessee.

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[1] Brenda Joyce Jerome. Crittenden County, Kentucky Marriages 1887-1899, Vol. III, (Evansville, IN: Evansville Bindery, 1993), 37.

[2] Ibid, p. 59.

[3] Ibid, p. 153.

[4] Kentucky Death Certificate #8263 (1944), Ancestry.com, accessed 23 August 2017.

Published 19 September 2017, Western Kentucky Genealogy Blog, http://wkygenealogy.blogspot.com/