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Davis, Absalom Pinkney

From "Kemper County, Mississippi - A Pictorial History", placed here with permission by the Kemper County Historical Commission.

Story submitted by: Opal Hopper Green

A.P. Davis, the only son of Thomas and Holland Davis, was born April 11, 1843, on the north bank of Pawticfaw Creek, six and one-half miles south of DeKalb

In August 1861 he enlisted in the Confederate army. He was a private, Company I, Fifth Regiment.

On October 17, 1865, he married Mary Jackson, daughter of Needham and Francis Jackson. Children born to this union were: Roxanna Holland (August 11, 1866); John Thomas (January 14, 1868-August 7, 1889); Harriett Cornelia (December 7, 1871); James Arnett (August 25, 1873; Mary Olive (June 8, 1875); Absalom Pinkney (December 20, 1876- February 25, 1897); Hood (September 12, 1878); O. Dewitt (July 29, 1880); and C. Vernon (August 29, 1882).

On March 22, 1883, he married Sarah Amanda McCoy the daughter of Redden McCoy. Children born to this union were: Dan Pearley (February 9, 1884); infant son (April 4-7, 1885); Barbara Amanda (December 5, 1886); Peggy Jones (November 28, 1889); and Mary Annie Bett (May 11, 1893).

He is buried in the Liberty Cemetery in Kemper County.

Absalom Pinkney Davis Mississippi Senate 1892, 1894

Hood  Davis and brother A.P. Davis, Jr., of the Key Town Community