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

JEREMIAH W. DAVIS, deceased. Reference to the prominent and 
highly industrious class of the citizens of Cass County 
would be incomplete without a brief mention of the active 
career of Jeremiah W. Davis, deceased. He was born in 
Greene County, Ky., Sept. 5, 1816. He was brought to 
Illinois by his parents, who settled in Cass County about 
the year 1829. His early life was spent in receiving a 
limited common school education, and assisting in tilling 
the home farm. At the age of twenty years, he left his home 
and embarked on life's rugged pathway, as a farmer, 
continuing the occupation to the time of his death, which 
occurred in 1863. He was married March 10, 1836, to Miss 
Cassandra E. Gunn, who bore him nine children, of whom four 
are now living, viz.: Jesse A., born Jan. 28, 1842; John 
B., Feb. 10, 1852; Jemima M., April 26, 1846; and Jeremiah 
W., Sept. 15, 1854. Mr. Davis commenced in gaining a good 
property. At the time of his death he was the owner of 
1,000 acres of good land. Such, very briefly, is the career 
of one who through life was highly energetic and 
progressive, and whose many excellent qualities of head and 
heart enabled him to gather about him an unusually large 
number of friends.

Davis Gunn 
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Greene-KY