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Submitted: 6/15/23 • Approved: 6/16/23 • Last Updated: 6/19/23 • R1488329-G0-S3
Unknown - May 7, 1893
*Obituary
The Springdale News
Friday, May 12, 1893
DAVIS, Sam - (from The Bentonville Democrat) Last Sunday afternoon word was passed from mouth to mouth in awed whispers that Sam Davis was no more; that he had died at 2:30 o'clock from an overdose of morphine taken by mistake, as stated by the young man a short time before his death. This news was a shock such as a community rarely receives. He was on the streets Sunday morning talking in his usually bright and interesting way to his friends and it took a great effort for one to realize or believe that in so short a time he was laying dead, his spirit having returned to the God who gave it. The deceased was in his thirty-first year at the time of his death. He had been a resident of this city for about seven years, coming here from Kansas. During the time he lived here his brilliancy of intellect, his promptness to take good enterprise and his kind disposition made of everyone who knew him a friend. He was a member of the bar at this place and enjoyed a good law practice. He was considered one of the brightest legal lights of the Bentonville bar and his opinion was sought by even the older heads. As the news of the death of this bright young man was passed from street to street, from house to house and from mouth to mouth, no one observing the look of sorrow stamped upon each face and heard the sigh of deep regret that escaped from each lip, the tender expressions of sympathy for those he loved and left could doubt that Sam Davis had real friends. Sympathy and affection were two of the most beautiful points in the make up of the man, while benevolence and charity were his idolatry, and as a consequence he had the sympathy and affections of all who love these traits of character. He loved his relatives almost to worship and never let an opportunity to do a kind act for his old father, his brothers and sisters, go by, and his wife and his "Darling Francis." as he fondly called her, were the idols of his warm and affectionate heart. Sam Davis, at times, may have committed error, but who has not? He may have had faults, but who has none? But now in this hour of bereavement let us cast over them the cloak of charity which we may all claim for ourselves when the inevitable hour comes. Peace to his ashes and may the memory of the good he has done ever grow greener. To the bereaved relatives, especially W.R. Davis, his loving father, we extend our sincere sympathy and assure them that our whole community mourns with them. What is sweeter than true sympathy? The funeral services were held at the Christian church on Monday afternoon at three o'clock after which the remains were laid to their final resting place in the I.O.O.F. cemetery by the Knights of Pythias of which order he was a bright light.
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