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From: "Jim and Terri Tait" <>
Subject: [DALELIST] DAVIS, Preston Brooks
Date: Fri, 11 Aug 2000 19:40:51 -0500

Source: "Alabama Official and Statistical Register, 1907" State of AL Dept
of Archives and History, compiled by Thomas M. Owen, L.L, D. Director, Brown
Publishing Co, Montgomery, AL, 1907

p. 74

Legislative Department, Twenty-Third District, Dale and Geneva Counties

PRESTON BROOKS DAVIS, of Chancellor, Geneva county was born February 15,
1857 at Bostick S.C., and is the son of Henry and Mary E. (Bostick) Davis
and the grandson of Bunyan and Sarah Bostick, all of South Carolina. The
Davis family lived in what is known as Welsh Neck, S.C. His father, Henry
Davis, was an ardent Secessionist; was too old to bear arms, but contributed
liberally to the cause; died at the age of sixty-two in the second year of
the War. Senator Davis received his early education in the little log
school houses near the place of his nativity; owing to the strenuous times
of reconstruction, he was unable to take a college education, but at an
immature age, shouldered the responsibility of a man. He has followed
farming ad the turpentine business successfully. In 1885, he removed to
Geneva county, where has had since resided; has been postmaster at
Chancellor for the last five years. He is a Democrat, and has been a member
of the executive committee of his county; is a Methodist; and a Mason. On
Dec 22, 1881, he married Florence A., daughter of Hilliard D. and Susan A.
Hamiter, who resided near Booksman's S.C., the former a capt. of Co "G",
24th S.C. Infantry Regiment.

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