Margaret (Davis) Davis 1817-1895  
Categories: Salem, West Virginia, The Sabbath Recorder Obituary
"The Sabbath Recorder", Vol 51, No 11, p 175, Mar. 14, 1895.
In Salem, W. Va., Jan. 9, 1895, of general progressive paresis, Mrs. Margaret Davis, in the 79th year of her age.
She was the widow of the late Dea. Ludwig H. Davis, and had been a faithful and consistent member of the Salem Seventh-day Baptist Church for more than sixty-three years. When but a child she gave her heart to Jesus during a revival led by Eld. Alexander Campbell.
During the ten years since the loss of her husband, she and her daughter Jennie have lived for each other in their quiet home in Salem. Everybody loved this devoted sister, and she was "Aunt Margaret" to everybody. Kind, considerate, charitable, conscientious and devout, she may truly be said to have "fought a good fight and to have kept the faith." The vast concourse of people who gathered at her funeral attested the high esteem in which she was held in the community. T. L. G.

Lodowick Hughes Davis 1816-1885  
Categories: Deacon / Deaconess, Salem, West Virginia, The Sabbath Recorder Obituary
"The Sabbath Recorder", Vol 41, No 32, p 5, Aug. 6, 1885.
In Salem, W. Va., July 21, 1885, of consumption, Dea. Lodowick H. Davis, aged 69 years, 1 month, and 28 days. He was born near Salem, where his parents had recently settled, and his youth was spent amid the stirring scenes of what was then a new country.
At the age of sixteen he made a profession of religion under the preaching of Eld. Alexander Campbell, and was soon after baptized by Eld. Peter Davis and joined the New Salem church. In 1835 he was married by Eld. Peter Davis, to Margaret Davis, a devoted Christian woman, raising a large family of worthy children; and on the 1st day of July, of this year, they had both lived to see the completion of fifty years of happy married life. As a church member, his life was so pure and his walk so exemplary that in early manhood the brethren called him to the office of deacon, and he filled this position with fidelity and self-sacrifice till death.
About seven years ago, he sold his farm and bought a pleasant home in Salem, just across from the church, so that he might devote the remnant of his days more fully to the Lord. Quietly and faithfully he did his part in holding up the pastor's hands and afterwards in leading the meetings and teaching in the Sabbath-school, while his own family were afflicted and himself in failing health. Tenderly and lovingly he watched over a son and than a daughter, as they sank away with consumption, well knowing that his own life was fast drawing to a close; but he was happy in his precious family and happy in the duties of religion.
Just a month before his death his youngest son, Prof. T. M. Davis, of Alfred University, came to spend a few days with them, and the father's happiness seemed complete to see all his children again. His death was so peaceful, so full of heavenly joy, that it seemed a fitting close to such a Christ-like life. On the following day a vast concourse of people gathered at the church, where the services were held and a sermon was preached from the text, "Mark the perfect man and behold the upright; for the end of that man is peace." Psa. 37: 37. L. R. S.