Democratic Sentinel, Volume 10, Number 22, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 July 1886 — DEATH OF JUDGE DAVIS. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

DEATH OF JUDGE DAVIS.

He Passes Away Peacefully, Surrounded by His Relatives and Friends. Sketch of His Career as a Jurist, a Statesman, and a Citizen. Judge David Davis passed peacefully away at his home in Bloomington, 111., on the morning of Saturday, June 20. An hour or so before his death he talked incoherently for some time. His family and friends in the house were around his bedside and he passed into death as if going to sleep. Judge Davis’ physician says the immediate cause of his death was ervsipelas, the outcome of a malignant carbuncle, which first appeared April 30, but that diabetes,

which must have been insidiously working for two years, was the primary cause, and to it is attributed his rapid decline in flesh a week before the end came. He hail been unconscious most of the time. His wife; his only son, George P. Davis, and wife ; his only daughter, Mrs. Sarah D. Swayne, and husband ; his granddaughter, Alice S. Davis ; his niece, Mrs. Fannie Pierpont; his cousin, John M. Walker; and his old friend, Frank D. Orme, of Washington, wore present at his death.