Rensselaer Republican, Volume 18, Number 43, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 July 1886 — DEATH OF JUDGE DAVIS. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

DEATH OF JUDGE DAVIS.

He Passes Away Peacefully, Surrounded bf His Relatives and Friends. Sketch of His Career «a t Jurist, a Statesman, and a Citizen. Judgo 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 ho talked incoherently for some time. His family and friends in tlio house were around his bedside alia he passed into death as if going to sleep. Judge Davis’ physician says the immediate cause of his death Was erysipelas, 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 had been unconscious most of the trine. His wife; his only son, George P. Davis, and wife ; his only daughter, Mrs. Sarah D. Swayne, and husband ; his granddaughter, Alice H. Davis; his niece, Mrs. Fannie Piorpont; his cousin, John M. Walker; and his old friend, Frank.D. Onne, of Washington, were present at his death.