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Below is a family biography included in Biographical and Historical Memoirs of Bradley County, Arkansas published by Goodspeed Publishing Company in 1890.  These biographies are valuable for genealogy research in discovering missing ancestors or filling in the details of a family tree. Family biographies often include far more information than can be found in a census record or obituary.  Details will vary with each biography but will often include the date and place of birth, parent names including mothers' maiden name, name of wife including maiden name, her parents' names, name of children (including spouses if married), former places of residence, occupation details, military service, church and social organization affiliations, and more.  There are often ancestry details included that cannot be found in any other type of genealogical record.

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Dr. S. M. Davis, of the firm of Gannaway & Davis, physicians and druggists, of Warren, Ark., is a native of Lowndes County, Ala., where his birth occurred February 14, 1839, and the son of John and Mary (Pevey) Davis, natives of Georgia. The parents emigrated to Alabama, thence to Bradley County, Ark., in 1842, and located ten miles north of Warren, where the father carried on agricultural pursuits. He died in Jefferson County, Ark., in 1861, at White Sulphur Springs, and the mother died when Dr. Davis was an infant. He was reared on the farm until sixteen years of age, and then taught school, but in the meantime studying medicine. He attended the Louisville, (Ky.), Medical College in 1868 and 1869, and afterward began practicing in Bradley County, Ark. This he has since continued, and is one of the successful and popular physicians of the county. He was married in 1866, to Miss Florence A. Turner, daughter of Judge A. A. Turner, and the result of this union has been three living children: Ina, Aubert and Zena. The Doctor enlisted in the army in 1861, Owen’s Battalion, and served until the close. He is a member of the Masonic fraternity, and he and wife are members of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South.

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This family biography is one of 64 biographies included in Biographical and Historical Memoirs of Bradley County, Arkansas published in 1890.  For the complete description, click here: Bradley County, Arkansas History, Genealogy, and Maps

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