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Submitted: 8/10/17 • Approved: 12/7/17 • Last Updated: 12/10/17 • R1189890-G0-S3
November 11, 1876 - August 24, 1960
One of the alert and enterprising citizens of Magnolia is Bonnie Davis, who was born in Haynesville, Louisiana, on the 11th of November, 1876, a son of Alexander and Cassie T. (Green) Davis. On the paternal side of the family is of Scotch-English descent and members of the family emigrated to this country at an early day, first locating in North Carolina. Alexander Davis came to this state from Mississippi in 1856 and was one of the early settlers in southern Arkansas. He engaged in farming near Emerson. His death occurred on the home place in 1913, at the age of sixty-five years. In 1874 was celebrated the marriage of Mr. Davis to Miss Cassie T. Green, a native of Louisiana, the ceremony being performed in Haynesville, that state. To their union six children were born, three boys and three girls, Bonnie D. being the second in order of birth. All of the children are living with the exception of two sons. Mrs. Davis died on the home farm in 1911, at the age of fifty-nine years. THe three daughters are Lula May, who married Luther McDonald of Shongaloo, Louisiana; Lillie, the wife of E. W. Warner of Emerson; and Amelia, who is now Mrs. B. T. Gallaher and resides in Trout, Louisiana. In the acquirement of an education Bonnie Davis attended the country schools of Columbia county and later entered Ouachita Baptist College at Arkadelphia, where he took a literary course, withdrawing at the end of two and one-half years. In 1899 he began teaching and was thus engaged in the public schools of Louisiana and in Columbia county, this state, for a period of fifteen years. He is now secretary and treasurer of the Columbia County Farm Bureau and conducts an abstract business. He owns considerable valuable real estate in Columbia county. Mr. Davis has not only become prominently known in educational and business circles but has served his fellowmen in the state legislature, having been elected to that body for the first time in 1909 and again in 1911, 1913 and 1917. Fraternally Mr. Davis is identified with the Ancient Free & Accepted Masons, having membership in Emerson Lodge, and he is likewise affiliated with the Woodmen of the World, belonging to Lodge No. 336, of Bristol, this state. He is one of the foremost citizens of Magnolia, is a man who takes an enthusiastic interest in every progressive public movement, and champions every cause that he feels will advance the welfare of the municipality either morally, intellectually, socially or financially. (Centennial History of Arkansas - S. J. Clarke Publishing Company - 1922)
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