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Our Best Words, April 1912, p 3 c 1 Balis Morton Davis was the youngest son of Mr. and Mrs. James Davis.
He was born on a farm a short distance east of Shelbyville on December
14, 1883. Died of Apoplexy at his home in Shelbyville, Ill., March
1912. Married to Mrs. Elmira Herod in 1864. To them five children were
born, one of whom preceded the father many years ago to the Great
Beyond. Jefferson M. Davis, Charles S. Davis, Mrs. Frances M. Davis of
this city, and Miss Ione Davis, a teacher of music at Lexington, Mo.,
and the wife and mother are left in sorrow. Funeral services were held
at the home, directed by Rev. John W. Tracy, assisted by Rev. J. L.
Douthit. This Douthit and the deceased were born within a quarter of a
mile of each other, were playmates in childhood, lifetime friends and
near neighbors.
The parents of this son were of excellent families from Kentucky
and came to this section at an early day. This youngest son (over 74
years of age), is the last to go of five children, namely: One
daughter, Mrs. Frances Ann Barrett (mother of Mrs. Walter C. Headen, of
this city), and three sons: Thomas Davis, James Davis and Balis M.
Davis, all tenderly remembered by this editor as lifelong faithful
friends with noble qualities of mind and heart.
