M. K. DAVIES DIES AFTER LINGERING ILLNESS

After suffering with ill health for months, Madison K. Davies died at the family home in Dexterville Monday morning and the funeral was held yesterday afternoon from the Baptist church, with Rev. Foreman in charge.

Mr. Davies was born at Bluemount, Virginia, October 7, 1852, and when 17 years old came west with his older brother, L. K., crossing the river at this point May 14, 1870. The prospects looked good and the boys decided to make this their future home. For a time, Madison attended the Blair High school and later took a course at the old Fontanelle college, an institution long since defunct, but at that time one of the foremost colleges of the state. He was married to Anna Burger in this city on December 4, 1889, and besides her, leaves one son, Edwin, to mourn his loss. Also one brother, L. K., who resides at Bethany, Nebr.

Mr. Davies spent most of his life in and near Blair and at different times was the owner of considerable farm land, his first piece being 160 acres out on the Papio west of Blair. He was a member of the Modern Woodman lodge and the Knights of Pythias, taking a great deal of interest in both organizations and a very active worker at all times.

He was a man of kindly impulses, and never forgot the hospitable ways of the pioneer. The stranger, even though a beggar, never failed to find food and shelter if he sought it at his hands, and he was at home by the bedside of the sick and delighted in all kinds of neighborly offices. He had borne adversity bravely and enjoyed prosperity quietly. He had filled the various relations of life, as husband, father, brother, friend, and filled them with ___________ (text missing)

The Tribune joins with the many friends of the family in extending sympathy in their hour of bereavement.