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- Amelia Abigail Stowell Davis - November 19, 1830 - February 28, 1905. Daughter of Elon and Abigail Anderson Stowell. Wife of James Freeman Davis.
Newspaper Obituary - Wednesday, March 15, 1905 Pulaski Democrat - Pulaski, New York - Mrs. Amelia A. Stowell Davis - Mrs. Amelia A. Stowell Davis was born into this life November 19, 1830, in Orwell, New York, and entered into the life eternal on February 28, 1905, in the 75th year of her age. She was the daughter of Elon and Abigail Anderson Stowell who moved to Orwell from Wilmington, Connecticut, early in their married life. In 1850 she was married to the late Dr. James F. Davis of Orwell. She is survived by four children, Dr. Clayton H. Davis, of Pulaski; Miss Ellen A. Davis, of New York City; Dr. Lavinia R. Davis, of Oneida, New York, and Freelon J. Davis, of Pulaski. In the earlier period of her marriage she resided for several years at Pulaski and Mexico, but the greater part of her life was spent in Orwell. The family lived until 1879 upon the homestead where she was born, and thereafter, upon the farm owned by her, just south of the village of Orwell. Part of 1885 she spent in Oberlin, Ohio, where her children were students in college, and while there she became a member of the First Congregational Church of Oberlin and maintained her connection with that church during her life. She served the Orwell Sunday school as superintendent most efficiently for some two years in the seventies. During the last seventeen years she has been an enthusiastic member of the W.C.T.U., rarely able to attend the meetings, but always mindful of its financial claims. In 1892 she was a delegate to their state convention at Newburgh and in 1888 and 1891 a visitor at New York and Boston. The best blood of New England was hers by direct descent on both sides from a long line of Puritan ancestors who gave their country and communities stanch and patriotic service in peace and in war. Her family record goes back to Sir James Whiton, who followed the standards of Cromwell to victory, but emigrated to this country after the Restoration in 1660. Her great-grandfather and grandfather, George and Thomas Anderson and her grandfather Samuel Stowell, fought bravely through the war of the revolution. Her father, Elon Stowell, was a man of much reading, of genial spirit and most upright life, a pillar in the Congregational church of his town. And thus, to this true daughter of New England came a goodly inheritance of its spirit, its sturdy intellectual and moral fiber and strength of character, akin to its own rock-ribbed _. Here, too, was the characteristic New England reserve, so far as the world at large was concerned. To those only who knew her best was it given to fully appreciate her strong and unique personality and her exceptional endowments of mind and heart. She possessed a mind richly stored with the treasures of literature, including a familiarity with the Bible rare in these days, a brain keen and logical and a marked gift of literary expression, apt and vivid through speech and pen, which often made her conversation and letters memorable. Hers was a many sided nature with a broad outlook upon life, a spirit hospitable to all fresh thought and in sympathetic touch to her latest years, with all great world movements, especially in the realm of philanthropic activity. Her heart was wholly in the temperance reform and in everything related to the advancement of women. With a keen sense of justice, deeply rooted in her soul and an answering rectitude of purpose, her innate perceptions of right and wrong were never confused by sophistries and no fellowship with _ or hypocrisy was possible to her. Converted in the early years and of a deeply religious nature, her religion expressed itself by deeds rather than by “much speaking,” deeds announced by no blaze of trumpets, but “falling noiseless as the snow,” unknown save to those whom they benefited. Through many toilsome burdened years, crowded with household cares beyond her strength, she wrought unremittingly for the comfort of her family and education and training of her children, to whom she was ever comrade and counsellor. In steadfast loyalty to her highest ideals, she sacredly fulfilled every obligation which life laid upon her in fullest measure and her own life was fragrant with the perfume of unselfish service, which gave and "asked not again.” The memory of her laborious, _, self-sacrificing life, her spiritual influence and example will remain her children’s most precious heritage.
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1830 - 1905 (74 years)