Fannin County TXGenWeb
Rev. Andrew & Maria S.Lynn Davis

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from Jean Caddel
from clippings , paper unknown

        MRS. MARIA S LYNN DAVIS

     Mrs. Maria S. Davis who departed this life Jan. 19, 1906 was the daughter of
Judge Benjamin F. Lynn and Juliette F. Lynn.  She was born Sept. 12, 1828 in
Carroll, Tenn.  Her father moved from Tenn. in the fall of 1834 crossing the Red River
on Dec. 12.  He settled on Pecan Bayou about twelve miles from the river in the fall of 1845, he moved on a place of J. W. P. McKenzie near McKenzie College.  It was here
that she was married to Rev. Andrew Davis a member of East Texas Conference, Jan.
14, 1847.  At the time of her marriage,Rev. Davis was serving Bonham Mission.  In a few days after her marriage she left the comfortable home of her father and rode on horseback more than 100 miles to the frontier mission that paid $26.50 a year salary.
    Her home life and training were complete for this pioneer life for altho her father was in comfortable circumstances, the girls were taught to work, she and her mother spun and wove the grey jeans and made the suits of clothing for the preachers on Clarksville circuit.
     For forty years Sister Davis had been a constant sufferer.  Her health gave way in 1864 and she had been an invalid most of the time since.  Because of this she has been seldom seen in church or in any social function.  For fifty nine years and five days she was faithful to him whose life had been blended with hers.  She was the mother of eleven children but only three B. L. Davis,Mrs. T. G. Brooks of Corsicana and Mrs. A. Laswell of Waxahachie, survive her.

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REV. ANDREW DAVIS    (No death date given for him)

     When such a man as Andrew Davis dies his life and labor merit more than passing notice.  He was born March 19, 1827 in a little village near Red River called Jonesborough.  He was the only son of Daniel and Nancy (McKelvey)Davis. His father was of Welsh stock, his mother was Scotch-Irish.  His mother passed away when he was so small he could not recall her features. His father married again and when his father was killed (Andrew was only 9 yrs.old) his stepmother was good to him and he cherished her memory, she remarried and moved a hundred miles away, he went with her, she gave him much liberty and he loved his freedom.  He had been in several skirmishes with Indians (his father had taught him to use firearms before he was six years old) so some of his father's friends decided the school that Rev. McKenzie had a Clarksville was the place for him and persuaded him to go there.
     He was a preacher of great ability and often great power.  His church honored him in almost all relationships, on missions, circuits, station district,superannuate and of the most  important boards and committees.Those who knew him only in his last years little dreamed the genial old gentleman was one of the heros who had brested storms of persecution,
endured poverty and privation.  From the time of receiving his first appointment
Brother Davis was an able and efficient defender of doctrines and policy of
our church.
     In 1848, he married Maria S. Lynn daughter of judge B. F. Lynn, his salary
the first year $26.25. Only three of their eleven children survive them.
Signed Horace Bishop