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Obituary of Benjamin Davis of Williamstown
Posted By Norman Gasbarro on October 8, 2018
Civil War veteran Benjamin Davis died on 13 April 1924. He is buried at the United Methodist Church Cemetery in Williamstown, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, in the Davis family plot. Previously on this blog, a brief biographical sketch of him appeared as part of a post describing burials in that cemetery in Williamstown:
Benjamin Byron Davis (1843-1924). Served in the 67th Pennsylvania Infantry, Company K, as a Private, starting on 5 February 1862 and later was promoted to a Corporal on 21 Jun 1865. He was mustered out on 15 June 1865. There appears to be an error on the grave marker as to the regiment and company in which Benjamin B. Davis served. During the course of his service, he had “one finger shot off and [another] one shattered.” Benjamin married Jemima Hatten. He lived in Minersville (Schuylkill County) in the early part of his life later moving to Reilly Township after the Civil War. He spent some time as a coal miner in Illinois before returning to the Lykens Valley area by the 1890 census. Throughout his life his only stated occupation was “coal miner.”
The obituary of Benjamin Davis appeared in the Lykens Standard of 18 April 1925. Note that he was referred to as “Davies” rather than “Davis.”
Benjamin Davies [sic], aged 71 years, 3 months and 21 days, died at his home Tuesday at 12:30, in Newtown Street, Williamstown, after an illness of nearly four months from yellow jaundice. He was a resident of Williamstown for the past 41 years; was a son of Benjamin Davis and Margaret Davies [sic], and was born in Minersville, 25 December 1841. In December, 1867, at Minersville, he married Jemima Davies [sic] who survives him with the following children: Benjamin Davis, George Davis, Robert Davis, of Williamstown; Herbert Davis of Baltimore; Joseph Davis of California; Maggie (Mrs. Charles Burns), May (Mrs. Joseph Jones), of Williamstown; Estella (Mrs. Harvey), Philadelphia; Bertha (Mrs. Block), Canton, Ohio; Emma (Mrs. Jamise), Philadelphia; Lily (Mrs. Wort), Pitcarn; 31 grandchildren and 16 great-grandchildren also survive.
Mr. Davies [sic] was a veteran of the Civil War, a member of the 67th Regiment, Company, and served an enlistment of three years and six months.
Funeral services, which will be private, will be held this afternoon at 2:00 o’clock from his home, the Rev. D. J. MacDonald of the Episcopal Church officiating. Burial will be made in the Methodist Episcopal Cemetery, Williamstown.
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News clipping from Newspapers.com.
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