DAVIS, Dolie Vernetta (Peter)

Local and Personal.

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Mrs. J. W. [sic J. L.] Davis died of consumption Wednesday morning at her home on Home Avenue in this city, after a long illness. She was the daugh­ter of Mr. and Mrs. B. Peter and was born in Louisville, Ky., May 22, 1853. She leaves a husband and two sons, Emery and Jesse. Funeral services occur this morning at 10 o’clock at the re­sidence, conducted by Rev. Cunning­ham.

The Franklin Democrat, Friday, February 17, 1899,
Volume XXXIX Number 32, page 2 column 3

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Called Home.

Mrs. J. L. Davis took her departure from us, Feb. 8, 1899, when the silver cord of life snapped without a struggle—the golden bowl broke without a sound; the eye lids drooped and the lips quivered, and all was over, for God had claimed her for his own. For she was Christ’s own all through her life, as she put on Christ before the purity of her childhood had been soiled by sin. During life she was a consistent, faith­ful and true Christian, and when suffer­ing and affliction began she bore them with Christian fortitude, never murmur­ing or complaining, for she realized that like her Master she must be made per­fect through much suffering.

We think that Goethe’s stanza para­phrased may be properly applied to this child of God:

She hasted not, rested not, calmly waited
She meekly bore the storms of life;
Duty was her polar guide;
She did right whate’er betide.
She hasted not, rested not, her conflicts past;
God has crowned her work at last,
For she was simply waiting, waiting
For sweet hour of full discharge
That sets her longing soul at large;
Takes off her chains, breaks up her cell,
And gives her with her God to dwell.

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Link to Dolie Vernetta (Peter) Davis’s grave

Note:  The Johnson County Indiana WPA Death Index, 1882-1920, page 48, referencing Book H-18, page 14, records that Dotie Davis [sic], a white female (no age listed), died 8 Feb 1899 in Franklin.

Submitted by Mark McCrady and Cathea Curry