James M. Davis
James M. Davis, son of G. W. Davis, born March 11, 1840, in Union Township, reared in this, and married February 3, 1866, to Margaret E., daughter of David and Dicy Dowell, of Highland County, who bore him six children: Lincoln, Grant, George, Jane, Nellie Bly, and Alice May; the latter deceased. He and family are exemplary members of the Methodist Episcopal Church. During the war he started as a private in Company " C," 114th O. V. I, and was promoted to lieutenant; was out two years and four months; engaged in all the battles around Vicksburg, and many of the heaviest actions during the war. In the spring of 1864, his regiment participated in the "Red River Campaign." He was honorably discharged, December 27, 1864. He has always been a staunch Republican. He came to his present location in 1870; owns eleven and a half acres of land, on which he has been making tile ever since its purchase. He runs his factory by steam, and has introduced all the late improvements for the manufacture of this indispensible article. He makes about seven thousand rods a year, and never has any quantity on hand, a sufficient guarantee of good workmanship.
From R. S. Dills' History of Fayette County