JAMES A. DAVIDSON

JAMES A. DAVIDSON WAS BORN IN NEW YORK CITY, JULY 4, 1842 AND DIED FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 2, IN THE CHRISTIAN CHURCH AT KELLERTON, WHILE ACTING AS PALL BEARER AT THE FUNERAL OF SAMUEL BRUCE. HE WAS AGED FIFTY-SEVEN YEARS, 6 MOTNHS AND 28 DAYS. AT THE AGE OF FIFTEEN YEARS HE MOVED WITH HIS PARENTS TO INDIANA, WHERE HE REMAINED UNTIL 1861, WHEN HE RESPONDED TO HIS NATION’S CALL AND BECAME A MEMBER OF CO F. 91ST INFANTRY, HE WAS MARRIED TO MARY J HARRIS IN 1875. THEY CAME TO RINGGOLD COUNT IN 1877, WHERE THEY REMAINED UNTIL THE TIME OF HIS DEATH. MR. DAVIDSON WAS PAST COMMANER OF WIM. MCDONALD POST NO. 435. BUT CHIEF OF ALL, HE WAS A SERVANT OF THE LORD JESUS CHRIST. HE WAS ONE OF THE CHARTER MEMBERS OF THE KELLERTON CHRISTIAN CHURCH, AND HAS BEEN FAITHFUL AND LOYAL TO THE CAUSE HE EPOUSED. HE LEAVES A WIFE AND AS MANY FRIENDS AS PERSONS HATH KNOW TO MOURN HIS DEATH