Sunday's Obituary: Lena (Alley) Davis

Nashville Tennesseean, 28 September 1956, page 52

Mrs. Larned Davis

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    Funeral arrangements for Mrs. Larned Davis, 76, of 3853 Saunders Ave., will be at 10:30 a.m. (CDT) tomorrow at Phillips-Robinson funeral home, 2707 Gallatin road.
    Mrs. Davis died yesterday morning at her home after a year's illness. The body is at the funeral home.
    A native of Nashville, Mrs. Davis was the former Lena Alley, daughter of the late Walter P. Alley and Idella Young Alley. She was educated in Nashville public schools and lived here all her life.
    In 1895 she was married to Larned Davis, a Nashville millwright. He died in 1935.
    Mrs. Davis was a member of the Church of Christ.
    She is survived by three daughters, Mrs. Charles Jacobs and Miss Frances Davis, both of Nashville, and Mrs. I. G. Harris, Gallatin; two sons, John R. Davis, Nashville, and Walter E. Davis, Brewerton, N.Y.; two sisters, Mrs. John Hudson, Nashville and Mrs. E. B. Howell, Skokie, Ill.; three grandchildren and one great-grandchild.

Nashville Tennesseean, 28 September 1956, page 52

DAVIS––Thursday morning, Sept. 27, 1956 at 11 o'clock at her home, 3853 Saunders Ave., Mrs. Lena Davis, survived by three daughters, Mrs. Charles Jacobs and Mrs. I. G. Harris of Gallatin, Miss Frances Davis of this city; two sons, John R. Davis of this city and Walter E. Davis, Brewerton, N.Y.; two sisters, Mrs. John Hudson of this city and Mrs. E. B. Howell of Skokee, Ill., three grandchildren and one great-grandchild. Remains rest at the funeral home of Phillips-Robinson Co. where services will be conducted by Paul Yucker at 10:30 a.m. (CDT) tomorrow. Pallbearers will be J. Webb Wherry, Casey Hutson, Hugh Hutson, Buford Hutson, Austin Hutson and Raymond Alley.

Lena (Alley) Davis was the mother of Walter Enloe Davis, the second husband of my great-grandmother Anna Gertrude Tarkington.