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FAMILY OF JAMES ALBERT DAVIS
AND STELLA (HADLEY) DAVIS

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Circa 1919

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~~ADDITIONAL INFORMATION~~

James Albert Davis was born Nov. 28, 1879, in Leadwood, St. Francois County, Missouri, son of John Davis and Artemissia (Cunningham) Davis.  He died Sept. 10, 1948, in Lincoln County, Missouri, at  69 years of age.  His first wife was Alice Sarah Shaner who died of tuberculosis on September 14, 1909, at 31 years of age.  She is buried with her family in the Shaner Cemetery near Bismarck, St. Francois County, Missouri.    On January 7, 1911, James married Stella Delores Hillerby (nee Hadley), born February 12, 1882 at Hadley's Landing, Calhoun County, Illinois.    Stella died in St. Louis, Missouri on February 21, 1973, at 91 years of age.   Sometime during late 1910, after the death of his first wife, Alice (Shaner) Davis, James advertised for a housemaid/nanny  in a St. Louis newspaper.  He had built a new home for his children who had been staying in an orphanage after Alice's death as he did not have anywhere for them to stay, nor did he have anyone who could look after them while he worked at one of the local lead mines.   Stella D. Hillerby (Hadley),. a widow, responded to his advertisement and traveled from her home in Calhoun County, Illinois to Bonne Terre, Missouri, with her son, to work for him.  James fell in love with her almost immediately and they subsequently married. 
    If you would like to share information on this line, please contact Robert Davis who contributed this information as well as the above photographs.

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