Soloman Ralph Davis and Nellie Jane Green Davis

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Name: Nellie Jenkin GREEN 
Given Name: Nellie Jenkin 
Surname: GREEN 
Sex: F 
Birth: 19 Apr 1880 in Greenock, Bosque County, Texas 
Death: 29 Apr 1978 in Dickens, Dickens County, Texas 
Burial: Spur Memorial Cemetery, Spur, Texas
Education: 
Note: Member Of Eastern Star 
Note: Member Of The Christian Church 
Event: Fact 1 
Note: Member Of Daughters Of The Confereracy 
Father: John A. GREEN b: 23 Apr 1841 in Greenville, Culpeper County, Virginia 
Mother: Sue Virginia LEWIS b: 1840 in Culpeper, Culpeper County, Virginia

Marriage 1 Sol R. DAVIS b: 1877 in Taylor County, Texas Formed 1858 From Bexar And Travis Counties
Married: 22 Nov 1899 in Dickens Cemetery, Dickens County, Texas 
Event: Marriage Fact 
Note: Minister- S.A. Cobb 

Name: Solomon R. DAVIS 
Given Name: Solomon R. 
Surname: Davis 
Sex: M 
Birth: 1877 in Taylor Co,Texas 
Death: 1918 in Spur, Dickens County, Texas 
Occupation: 2 Feb 1900 Dickens County Postmaster 
Occupation: Died of an influenza epidemic 
Occupation: Moved to Spur after 1910 
Burial: Spur Memorial Cemetery 
Event: Fact2 Unknown Owned a dry goods & grocery store in Dickens 
Event: Fact3 Unknown 22 Nov 1899 Married Nellie J. Green (sister of Virginia Irene Green who was married to Luke W. Davis)
Father: James Carrol DAVIS b: 5 Apr 1851 in Butler Co. MO 
Mother: Mary Ann STEPHENS b: 6 Jan 1845 in Cartersville,Georgia


Children of Nellie and Sol Davis
     Lee Walker DAVIS
     Rob A. DAVIS b: 3 Aug 1900 in Dickens co,Texas (Spur)
     Sterling R. DAVIS b: 18 Jan 1904 in Dickens co,Texas (Spur)
     John A. DAVIS b: 1910
     Lewis Green DAVIS b: 2 Sep 1911 in Dickens co,Texas (Spur)

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Burial Site

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Block 22
Lot 4

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Additional Information & Documentation

MRS. SOL DAVIS WILL OPEN BEAUTY PARLOR SATURDAY
Mrs. Sol Davis will open her Beauty Parlor business Saturday in the upstairs department of C.R. Edwards & Co. in the Sol Davis building. For lack of complete stocks and equipments at this time for the business, Mrs. Davis will not have a formal opening, but will be prepared to serve and show patrons and customers in her lines. Mrs. Davis recently returned from California where she took a course of study and practical instruction in Beauty Parlor work, and is prepared to serve the public in an up-to-date manner, and extends a cordial invitation for all to call on her.

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Obituary

Nellie Davis

Funeral services for a Dickens County pioneer, Mrs. Nellie J. Davis, 98, were held Monday at 3 p.m. in the First Christian Church, Spur. Rev. Frank Pickett, pastor of the First Christian Church, Post, officiated.
Mrs. Davis was born in Bosque County in 1880. She came to Dickens County in 1888 and had made her home here since that time. She died April 29 in Highland Hospital, Lubbock.

She married Sol Davis in Dickens in 1899. She was a member of the Eastern Star and Daughters of the Confederacy. She was also a member of the Christian Church.

She is survived by two sons, Lee Davis, Post, and John A. Davis, Chattanooga, TN; seven grandchildren, 15 great grands, 16 great-great grands. Several nieces and nephews also survive. Her husband died in 1918.

Grandsons served as pallbearers. They included Sol Davis, Robert Hall Davis, Lee W. Davis, Jr., Keith Davis, Biff Davis and Dick Davis.

Interment was in the Spur Cemetery.

©The Texas Spur, May 4, 1978
from the records of Lillian Grace Nay

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