Perry F DAVIDSON (VETERAN CSA)

MUSICIAN CSA
Company E 1 Battalion Arkansas Cavalry
Civil War Confederate
October 31, 1839 - January 6, 1929

*Obituary (Article)
Fayetteville Daily
Saturday, June 10, 1905

DAVIDSON, Perry F. - Mr. P.F. Davidson has in his possession a copy of a paper which tells more eloquently the story of the desperate times in which it was published. than any words could possibly do. It is a paper that was published at Vicksburg during the Civil War. While the siege of Vicksburg was in progress the editor had on his hand a problem as serious to the life of his paper as the bread and meat question was to the inhabitants of the town. He had exhausted his supply of blank paper and there was no way to get a supply from neighboring towns. At last in sheer desperation he bought up a stock of wallpaper and published the news on the white side thereof. He had a red issue and a green issue and all kinds of issues, but he pulled through all right and in his last wallpaper issue the little sheet still sang the glory of old Dixie. The last issue has gone out to the world as a curiosity and Mr. Davidson has acquired a copy of it. The originals would be worth a vast amount of money.

*Obituary
The Arkansas Countryman
Thursday, January 10, 1929

Perry F. Davidson Answers Last Call - Fayetteville mourns the loss of another of its old and highly respected citizens, one who has done much for the town and country and whose life and character always stood for the best in life, Perry F. Davidson, who passed away last Sunday. Mr. Davidson had passed his 86th birthday. He came to Fayetteville in 1859 and served in the Confederate army in Brooks regiment and was twice captured and held in Federal prison at St. Louis, later being transferred to the one at Alton, Illinois, where he remained until the end of the war.

Mr. Davidson vividly remembered Fayetteville's early history and often related incidents at the Countryman office as to the stirring days when Fayetteville was a village and when honor and integrity were paramount among citizens and neighbors.

Surviving are his wife, Mrs. Ora Haley Davidson, now critically ill; a daughter, Mrs. Leena Agee, also ill; and a brother, Major B.R. Davidson, president of the Arkansas National Bank.

*Source: Sons of Confederate Veterans, Benton County, Arkansas 2009
Compiled by William W Degge

Zora
March 31, 1848 - January 11, 1929

*Obituary
Fayetteville Democrat
Tuesday, January 8, 1929

DAVIDSON, Zora "Ora" FRANCES - Mrs. Davidson Unconscious But Breathing Improved - Mrs. Perry Davidson, who is critically ill, was still unconscious today, but her respiration was reported to be slightly improved. Her husband died late Sunday morning. The two are said to have expressed a desire to be buried together.

*Obituary
Fayetteville Democrat
Saturday, January 12, 1929

Mr. and Mrs. Davidson To Be Buried Sunday From Funeral Home - Mr. and Mrs. Perry Davidson will be buried together Sunday afternoon at 2:00 o'clock with double funeral service conducted from the Fayetteville Funeral Home with the Rev. J.M. Asbell officiating.

Mrs. Davidson passed on last night following a long illness which about 10 days ago developed into pneumonia, from which her husband had died only a few days before. The passing of Mr. and Mrs. Davidson removes from Fayetteville two more of her prominent pioneer citizens.

Pallbearers for Mr. Davidson will be: Active - James (Pat) Carlisle, H.L. Pearson, John Smith, Laytton Reagan (Rogers), T.C. Connor, C.R. Gilbreath; honorary - Confederate soldiers of Fayetteville and vicinity.

Pallbearers for Mrs. Davidson have been named as follows: W.B. Stelzner, E.A. Cowan, J.W. Fitzjarrell, Rev. W.S. Gregson, W.B. McConnell and G.C. Hurst, all members of the board of First Christian Church, to which both Mr. and Mrs. Davidson belonged.

Zora Frances Davidson was born at Mount Vernon, Missouri, March 31, 1848, a daughter of Harrison Frances and Mrs. Maria Frances. She lived at Mount Vernon until the beginning of the Civil War, when she went with her parents to Sedalia where on May 4, 1868, she and Mr. Davidson were married. The couple had two children, a son who died in infancy and a daughter, Mrs. Lenna Davidson Agee, who survives.

The family came here to reside February 1880, where Mr. Davidson built their present home in which they had lived ever since.

Mr. Davidson, who passed his 89th birthday last November, was born in Monmouth, Illinois in 1839, from which place he came to Fayetteville in 1859. He served in the Confederate army in Brooks regiment and was twice captured and held in a prison in St. Louis, later being transferred to one at Alton, Illinois, where he remained till the close of the war.

He has for years been in the farm loan and insurance business having retired but a few years ago. For many years he was a representative in Arkansas for the Sharte Mortgage Company as associate of Charles W. McAnulty of Neosho, Missouri, who was in Fayetteville yesterday and who took occasion to arrange for a floral offering for his firm.

"No finer man or one more honest ever lived than Perry Davidson," Mr. McAnulty said in tribute to his late friend and associate. "Mr. Davidson was the soul of honor. He was a good business man and a good friend. He liked and could tell a good story. I did not know of his death until today, but I am arranging to express my sympathy to the family and my affection for Mr. Davidson in a floral offering. I am sorry indeed to hear of my friends passing, and also the the critical illness of his wife."

Mr. and Mrs. J.T. Stinson of St. Louis, Joe Haley of Oklahoma City and Asleigh Boles are among out of town relatives and associates here for the funeral.

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