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- Dr. Clayton H. Davis - March 28, 1851 - September 23, 1938. Son of James Freeman and Amelia Abigail Stowell Davis. Husband of Clara L. Hadley Davis (married October 1, 1885 at Sandy Creek, New York) & Abbie Maria Brown Davis (married February 15, 1893 at Olean, Cattaraugus County, New York.] [Notes: Clara Hadley was born March 29, 1863 in Sandy Creek Township, Oswego County, New York, a daughter of Jacob and Adaline Hadley. Clara died October 21, 1889 in Pulaski, New York. Clara is buried with her parents in Woodlawn Cemetery at Sandy Creek, New York.]
Newspaper Obituary - Wednesday, September 28, 1938 Pulaski Democrat - Pulaski, New York - Dr. Clayton H. Davis Dies At Home on North Street - Dr. Clayton H. Davis, for more than half a century a practicing dentist in this village, died at his home on North street, early last Friday morning, surviving his wife by a little more than two months. Mrs. Davis died July 14th. Dr. Davis was born in the village of Orwell March 28, 1851, a son of James F. and Amelia A. Stowell Davis. As a young man he took up the study of dentistry with his father and in the early 1870s began practice. In October 1885 he married Abbie M. Brown. In the fall of that year, at the urgent request of his sister, Dr. Lavinia R. Davis, then a student in Oberlin College, Oberlin, Ohio, he took his bride to this city where he practiced his profession until September of the following year. Then he and Mrs. Davis came to Pulaski and he established practice here which was to continue uninterrupted for the next 52 years. During the many years as a resident of this village, Dr. Davis enjoyed a practice that brought him into relationship with many people of eastern Oswego county, and he made many friends. His skill, quiet and sympathetic nature brought many sufferers to his office, and up to the day before his death he continued to serve a discriminating clientele. As a youth he became a member of the old Congregational church of Orwell. In Pulaski he and Mrs. Davis were attendants of and contributors to the Methodist Episcopal church. He was an ardent student of the Bible and spent much of his spare time reading, analyzing and classifying the scriptures, filling his Bible with marginal references and comments. He was a lifelong adherent to the principles of the Prohibition party and took an active part in its councils in Oswego county. Surviving are two sisters, Dr. Lavinia R. Davis of Oneida, and Mrs. Ellen Davis Montague of Orwell, who since the death of Mrs. Davis have alternated their visits to Pulaski to be with him in his home here. The funeral was held at the Foster Funeral home on Park street at two o'clock Sunday afternoon, with the Rev. W. A. Gardner, pastor of the Methodist Church, officiating. The bearers were Clyde White, Robert Babcock, Edward Parker, and Tracy Wilder. Burial was in the family plot in Evergreen cemetery in Orwell.
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1851 - 1938 (86 years)