History of Daviess County, Kentucky, Inter-State Publishing Co.,
Chicago, 1883.  Reprinted by McDowell Publications, Utica, KY, 1980.  p.
731.
AMOS DAVIS, M. D., born near Bloomfield, Nelson Co., Ky., June 4, 1848,
is a son of Hamlet W. and Helen R. (Southerland) Davis, also natives of
the same county.  His father was a prominent farmer, and also dealt
rather extensively in stock.  He died Nov. 9, 1881, at the residence of
Dr. Davis.  In the spring of 1860 he moved his family to Daviess County,
locating in the Beech Woods in Yelvington Precinct.  His wife died in
the latter part of 1869.  They reared a family of five children, two
sons and three daughters, losing two in infancy.  Dr. Davis is next to
the youngest child living.  The early portion of his education was
received in Nelson County and the remainder at Owensboro.  In the early
part of 1872 he began to study medicine with Dr. R. B. Gilbert, then of
Owensboro, who was his preceptor till he completed his studies.  In the
winter of 1872-'3 he attended medical lectures at the University of
Louisville, and again during the seassions of 1873-'4, graduating from
this institution in March, 1874.  The same spring he located at Buford,
Ohio County, and commenced his practice, remaining there till April,
1876, when he moved to Midway, Spencer Co., Ind., but remained there
only a short time.  On the first of June, 1876, he located permanently
at Pleasant Ridge, Daviess County, where he has been successful in the
practice of his profession.  He is a member of the McDowell Medical
Society.  In 1868 he became a member of the Presbyterian church at
Owensboro.  He was married Oct. 31, 1878, to Lizzie Hardwick, who was
born at Hartford, Ohio County, Dec. 13, 1852, a daughter of William
Hardwick.  They have on son--Robert Wendell, who was born Sept. 5,
1879.  Dr. Davis was left to his own resources when he was eight years
old.  He completed his academic education, and also through his own
exertions acquired the necessary means to carry him through his medical
course.  This he has successfully done, and has now a fine home and
family around him, together with a good paying practice from the
community in which he lives.
Davis Southerland Gilbert Hardwick 
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Bloomfield-Nelson-KY Ohio-KY Midway-Spencer-IN

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