Illinois:  History of Cass County, Illinois, ed. William 
Henry Perrin. O. L. Baskin & Co. Historical Publishers, 
Chicago, 1882. Cass County.

RICHARD L. DAVIS, farmer, P.O. Beardstown; is a native of 
Kentucky; born April 14, 1826; son of James B. and Elizabeth 
(Hawkins) Davis, natives of Virginia, parents of twelve 
children, Richard L. being the seventh child of the family, of 
whom four are deceased. His education was received in the 
schools of Monroe Precinct, and he has since been engaged in 
farming. He was married in Arenzville Precinct, this county, in 
October 1854 to Elizabeth Buck, born in Tennessee, Nov. 14, 
1824, who bore him thirteen children: Joseph, Peter (deceased), 
Stephen, Mary E., Jasper J. (deceased), Richard (deceased), 
Jane, Sophia, Jacob, Annie, Andrew J., Richard and Emma. Mrs. 
Davis was a daughter of Jasper and Sophia Buck; her father was 
born in North Carolina in 1791, and died March 1, 1841; her 
mother, also born in North Carolina, in 1789, died in 1867. His 
second wife, Elizabeth, daughter of Edward and Ellen Morrison, 
has borne him three children, two of whom are deceased.  Mr. 
Davis has filled the office of School Director.  He is a 
supporter of the Democratic party.

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