1795 - 1880 Composer (melody, attributed to) of "LIVERPOOL" in Ancient and Modern A clock maker and silver smith, Davis grew up in Newberry County, South Carolina, and appears in the 1850 and 1860 censuses there. By 1870, he and his wife Melinda had moved in with their daughter in Concord, South Carolina, and were living there through at least 1880.
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M. C. H. Davis