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~~ADDITIONAL INFORMATION~~ James Albert Davis was born Nov. 28, 1879,
in Leadwood, St. Francois County, Missouri, son of John Davis and Artemissia (Cunningham)
Davis. He died Sept. 10, 1948, in Lincoln County, Missouri, at 69 years of
age. His first wife was Alice Sarah Shaner who died of tuberculosis on September 14,
1909, at 31 years of age. She is buried with her family in the Shaner Cemetery near
Bismarck, St. Francois County, Missouri. On January 7, 1911, James
married Stella Delores Hillerby (nee Hadley), born February 12, 1882 at Hadley's Landing,
Calhoun County, Illinois. Stella died in St. Louis, Missouri on February
21, 1973, at 91 years of age. Sometime during late 1910, after the death of
his first wife, Alice (Shaner) Davis, James advertised for a housemaid/nanny in a
St. Louis newspaper. He had built a new home for his children who had been staying
in an orphanage after Alice's death as he did not have anywhere for them to stay, nor did
he have anyone who could look after them while he worked at one of the local lead mines.
Stella D. Hillerby (Hadley),. a widow, responded to his advertisement and traveled
from her home in Calhoun County, Illinois to Bonne Terre, Missouri, with her son, to work
for him. James fell in love with her almost immediately and they subsequently
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