WIDOW OF JOHN J. DAVIS PASSES AWAY
The Wheeling Intelligencer., April 27, 1917
Special Dispatch to the Intelligencer.
CLARKSBURG, W. Va., April 26.– Mrs. Anna Davis, of this city, widow of John J. Davis, a prominent West Virginia lawyer, and mother of John W. Davis, solicitor general of the Untied States, died last night in a hospital in Baltimore, Maryland, after a brief illness, aged 75 years. Her body is enroute home tonight, where the funeral and burial will take place.
Solicitor General’s Mother Dead
The West Virginian., April 27, 1917 page 4
CLARKSBURG, W. Va., April 27.– Mrs. Anna Davis, of this city, widow of John J. Davis, a prominent West Virginia lawyer, and mother of John W. Davis, solicitor general of the United States, died last night in a hospital in Baltimore, Maryland, after a brief illness, aged 75 years. Her body is en route home, where the funeral and burial will take place.