"The Sabbath Recorder", Vol 86, No 13, p 414, Mar. 31, 1919.
Floretta Jane Davis was born in New Bremen, Lewis Co., N. Y., June 11, 1845, and died March 16, 1919, while visiting at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Louisa Barber, of North Loup, Neb., aged 73 years, 9 months, and 5 days.
Her parents were Benjamin and Candace Jane (Barber) Davis. When about eight years of age she went with her parents to Illinois near Peoria. Here in early young womanhood she was converted to Christ but because of difference in faith was denied baptism by the local minister.
In 1861 the family moved to Carlston, near Alden, Minn. She was baptized at Trenton, Minn., and became a constituent member of the Carlston Seventh Day Baptist Church organized shortly after. On her nineteenth birthday she was united in marriage to Elmer E. Davis, by Rev. D. P. Curtis, then pastor at Carlston. To this union four children were born. In 1873 her husband died and the following year the youngest child, Lucy Nell, followed her father to the spirit land.
In 1882 she with her aged mother, her fifteen year old son and two daughters drove in a covered wagon from Alden, Minn., to North Loup, Neb., to visit relatives. After arriving she decided to establish a home at this place. This home she, her son, and later his family, have always shared together. She transferred her church membership to the North Loup Seventh Day Baptist Church and has always lived a Christian life marked by remarkable unselfishness. A considerable part of her life has been spent in tenderly ministering to the sick. While in comparative vigor she fell a victim of Spanish influenza. She is survived by three children, Mrs. Ida Brown, Edmund L. Davis and Mrs. Louisa Barber, all living at North Loup, Neb. She has eleven grandchildren and four great-grandchildren, also two brothers, F. M. Davis, of Ord., Neb., and Orville E., of Stone Lake, Wis.
In the absence of her pastor, A. L. Davis, the funeral was conducted at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Barber, by Rev. E. A. Wells, of the Friends Church. The text was Psa. 116: 15. "Precious in the sight of the Lord is the death of his saints."
Her six grandsons acted as pall bearers and the body was laid to rest in the North Loup Cemetery. "Asleep in Jesus." I. R. and L. L. B.

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1. Title: Research of G. Maria Davis-Johnson

Elmer Eugene Davis 1840-1873
Categories: The Sabbath Recorder Obituary
"The Sabbath Recorder", Vol 29, 1873.
At the residence of W. L. Green, in Carlston, Minn., May 24th, 1873, Elmer E. Davis, aged 33 years. The subject of this notice was born in Watson, Lewis county, N. Y., and was the son of Elisha R. and Lucetta Davis. When about sixteen years of age, he removed, with his parents, to Walworth, Wis. Here he met with an accident which rendered him a cripple for life. In the fall of 1863, he came, with his father's family, to Minnesota, and in the following Summer, was married and settled on a homestead in Alden, which was his home while he lived. When about fourteen years of age, he became the subject of religious convictions, and yielded his heart to God, uniting with the Seventh-day Baptist Church of Watson, where he held his membership till he settled here, and united with the Carlston Seventh-day Baptist Church, of which he was a member at the time of his death, universally esteemed and beloved. He was naturally possessed of an amiable disposition, and a warm and generous heart. He bore his heavy affliction with commendable patience, and through a sickness of fourteen months, during which time he was not able to lie upon a bed to exceed an hour in all, he bore up with cheerful courage and manly fortitude, and exhibited a good degree of Christian integrity and quiet resignation.

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1. Title: Research of Steve Curtis
2. Title: Research of G. Maria Davis-Johnson