Obituary Sunday-Mack Davis

MACK DAVIS KILLED IN EMPTY BUILDING¹
Chesterfield Banker Found Dead in School House – Affairs in Good Condition.
Special to The State.
Chesterfield. July 21.- Mack Davis, assistant cashier of the Peoples bank, aged about 40 years, was found dead of gunshot wound, supposedly self-inflicted, in the graded school building this morning about 8 o’clock.

As was his custom, he rose every very early this morning, telling his wife that he was going to walk over to his farm, about two miles from town. As he did not return when expected, his wife began to get anxious about him but did not suspect anything had happened to him. A little girl playing near the school building ran in for a moment and saw the body but did not recognize it.

The weapon used was a double barrel shotgun. The report was heard by the neighbors, but no one was sure of its direction and no one suspected that anything was wrong. Mr. Davis leaves a wife and little daughter and several brothers and sisters.

Mr. Davis books at the bank were in perfect order and his affairs generally were in good condition.

William McNair “Mack” Davis was born 18 March 1872, a son of David Richard Davis and Mary Cornelia McNair. He was the 7th of ten children; two brothers and seven sisters.
Mack Davis married Mary E. Meehan on 14 August 1912. Their only child, a daughter, Margaret McNair Davis was born 1 July 1914. Mack died on 21 July 1916 just a few days after his daughter’s second birthday.

Mary E. Meehan Davis died in December 1963. Mack and Mary are buried in the Chesterfield Cemetery. 


William McNair Davis was my 2nd cousin 3 times removed.






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[1] The State, Columbia, South Carolina, 22 July 1916, page 1, Column 2.