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Major A.P. Davis Born at Gardner Maine May 10,1835 - Died Pittsburg, PA May 21, 1899
"SECURELY LAID IN THIS LAST RETREAT,
UNHEEDED O'ER HIS SILENT DUST;
THE STORMS OF LIFE SHALL BEAT"
Also Buried with him is his wife Nancy E. Davis Born July 19, 1841 - Died Pittsburgh, PA Jan 13, 1912

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November 12, 1881 Davis Camp #1, Sons of Veterans of Pennsylvania was formed at Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania by Brevet Major August Plummer Davis. Eleven boys were present at the meeting. These are the charter members of Davis Camp #1 Sons of Veterans of Pennsylvania (also the charter members of The Sons of Union Veterans of the Civil War).
Harry T. Rowley John Sieferth Walter Morris Herbert A. Davis John D. MacFarland Henry Maxwell E. W. Wilker Ernest W. Lehman A. P. Hays George L. Moreland William L. Feer

From " Chronological History Sons Of The Union Veterans"
By: David B. Orr, [Past] National Historian Sons of Union Veterans of the Civil War

Davis Star Camp Flag

~ Photos July 8, 2001 JTMcA ~