The Following Obituary is from the Hillsboro Press Gazette, September 24, 1897
Note: Davis A. McConnaughey and his wives are buried in the New Market Baptist Church Cemetery.
Davis A. McConnaughey was born February 12, 1828 near Uniontown, Fayette county, Penn. Died September 11, 1897, aged 69 years, 6 months, and 29 days. At the age of 7 years he emigrated with his parents, Andrew and Mary McConnaughey to Ohio in the year 1835. Of his father’s family he was the oldest of eight children who grew to man and womanhood, four of whom have preceded him in death. His early life was spent on the farm. The spirit of enthusiasm led hid him into greater fields of activity then merely a tiller of the soil, and at the age of eighteen he entered the mercantile business in partnership with his father in the purchase and exportation of a large proportion of the farm products of the Southern part of Highland county. This he continued to do almost six years when he went into the live stock business in which he continued for more that forty years, handling stock from breeders and raisers to feeders in Fayette, Madison and Clinton counties, and to consumers at Cincinnati. And it has been truly said that Davis McConnaughey has ridden many times more miles and endured more untold hardships and deprivations of natural rest than it seemed possible for man to endure. He served in many positions of sectarian and public trust, one of the most responsible that of County Commissioner, during which time many needed reforms concerning the care and improvement of the public highways were brought about through his personal efforts.
He was twice married, first to Sarah Ellen Conn in the year 1852. To this union was born a daughter, who soon followed her mother in death. In 1857 he was again married to Sarah C. Hibbs. To this union were born six sons and three daughters. One son and one daughter preceeded him in death, the wife and five sons and two daughters remain to mourn their loss. He requested before his death that Rev. D. Triehler, of Locust Grove, speak the last words over his lifeless clay, which he responded to from “Revelation 21-3,” after which the body was borne to the silent city of the dead, there to await the resurrection to arise in the newness of life.
T.R. Vance
The family wish to express their thanks to their neighbors and friends who have helped them take care of husband and father in the past two years.
S.C. McConnaughey and Family