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Below is a family biography included in Biographical and Historical Memoirs of Chicot County, Arkansas published by Goodspeed Publishing Company in 1890.  These biographies are valuable for genealogy research in discovering missing ancestors or filling in the details of a family tree. Family biographies often include far more information than can be found in a census record or obituary.  Details will vary with each biography but will often include the date and place of birth, parent names including mothers' maiden name, name of wife including maiden name, her parents' names, name of children (including spouses if married), former places of residence, occupation details, military service, church and social organization affiliations, and more.  There are often ancestry details included that cannot be found in any other type of genealogical record.

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Felix G. Davis, the subject of this sketch, was born in Illinois in 1819, and is the son of Nathaniel and Hulda Davis, natives of Virginia and Mississippi, respectively. The father received an excellent medical education in the State of Virginia, and was a physician of prominence. He emigrated to Arkansas in 1826, locating near Helena, and in 1830 settled in Chicot County, where he breathed his last in 1840. The subject of this sketch passed his youth in Arkansas. When sixteen years old he attended college at St. Charles, Mo., and after completing a four years’ course, returned home on account of the ill health of his father. Mr. Davis was married in 1848 to Miss Mary Lamb, daughter of Thomas and Mary Lamb, both of whom were natives of England. Of this union were born four children, only one of whom is now living—Gertrude. In 1886 Mrs. Davis was called away from the scenes of earth, leaving a husband who still mourns his loss. Mr. Davis became a minister of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, in the year 1887. He has also devoted much of his time to farming, owning a valuable plantation. The subject of this sketch was at one time elected to represent his district in the Legislature; was justice of the peace for twenty years. He is a man of great culture and intellectual force, and one who is highly esteemed throughout Chicot County.

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This family biography is one of 34 biographies included in Biographical and Historical Memoirs of Chicot County, Arkansas published in 1890.  For the complete description, click here: Chicot County, Arkansas History, Genealogy, and Maps

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