Uri Pearl Davis 1878-1947  
"The Sabbath Recorder", Vol 142, No 16, p 271, Apr. 21, 1947.
  Uri Pearl Davis, son of Thomas C. and Eliza L. Babcock Davis, was born at North Loup, Neb., February 21, 1878, and died in the local hospital at Gainesville, Fla., February 9, 1947.
  He was a graduate of Milton College, Milton, Wis., and received his master’s degree in the University of Florida.   He was well known throughout Florida educational circles, having recently retired as teacher of Mathematics in the University of Florida, on account of ill health.   He had held the university position for seventeen years.
  His first wife, Edna LaRue Davis, died in 1927.   His second wife, Lora Taylor Davis, survives him, together with a brother, Bert Davis of Elmira, N. Y., a sister, Mrs. Alfred I. Maxson of Stuart, Fla., also a sister, Mrs. Howard G. Davis of Oneida, N. Y., two foster daughters, and many other relatives and friends.
  Early in life he became a member of the Grand Junction, Iowa, Seventh Day Baptist Church and afterward the church of the same faith in Nortonville, Kan.   At Gainesville, through many years, he was an active and valued worker in the Baptist Church.   Funeral services were conducted by the Masonic Order.     H. C. V. H.


Census: 1880 North Loup, Valley Co., Nebraska: age 2