1795 - 1880 Composer of "LIVERPOOL" in The Southern Harmony, and Musical Companion (New ed. thoroughly rev. and much enl.) 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