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Occupation: Farmer
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Age given as 55, birth state NY, married, LDS film number 1021449, volume 159
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Originally of New York. Listed in Ill Census with a group of five people who may have been farming on their own. Listed in 1870 IA census without his wife Catherine. Name "Abijah Peck" possibly came from the good friend of his grandfather Groom of the same name, who witnessed his will.

"I, A. P. Davis, of Adair County, and State of Iowa, do hereby make and publish this, my Last Will and Testament, hereby revoking and making null and void all other Wills and Testaments by me heretofore made. All the property, real, personal or mixed, of which I shall die seized or Possessed, or to which I shall be entitled at the time of my decease, I give, devise, bequeath and dispose of in the manner following, to-wit:
Paragraph 1. My will is that all my just debts and funeral charges shall first be paid of of my estate by my executors.
Paragraph 2. That my wife M. J. Davis shall have a lease upon all my property during her life time, and upon the death of my wife, M. J. Davis, my property, both personal and real shall e divided as follows: I hereby bequeath to my son Albert R Davis, twenty five dollars, to Arthur W. Davis twenty five dollars, until Ilvina P Allen twenty five dollars, unto the heirs of Hattie A Hallen deceased, Twenty five dollars, unto John G Davis twenty five dollars, unto W. F. Davis two hundred dollars, unto Sherman Davis twenty five dollars, unto Alice J Bacon two hundred dollars, unto Minnie E Smith one hundred dollars and unto Alvia N Davis and Flavy E Davis, the residue of my property as follows, unto Flavy E Davis two hundred dollars more than Alvia N Davis as compensation for his services as executor of this my last will and testament and after the foregoing two hundred dollars have been deducted from the residue as stated above ve, then Alvia N Davis and Flavy E Davis shall share equally the net residue.
Paragraph 3. I nominate and appoint Flavy E Davis to be the Executor of t his my Last Will and Testament with bond for $1000.
In testimony whereof I, the said A. P. Davis have subscribed my name tis 20th day of July 1914. A. P. Davis.
Signed by the said A. P. Davis as and for his Last Will and Testament in the presence of us, who at his request and in his sight, presence and in the presence of each other, have subscribe our names as attesting witnesses hereto,, this 20th day of July, A.D. 1914. P. P. Sullivan, (?) Michael"
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Occupation: Farmer
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1870 census occupation listed as Farm Laborer.
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Census gives occupation as farm laborer. Listed as being of Livingston, M.T. in Biographical source. Twin brother of Rev. Levi Davis.
Alternate date of death given by MT death certificate is 20 Oct 1921.

"Miss Bertha I. Davis, the accomplished daughter of Albert P. Davis, arrived recently from Englewood, Ill., to make her home with her father and brother, where she will doubtless dispel the clouuds that darken a bachelor's life and which nothing but the magic touch of a woman can disperse."--16 Jun 1888, The Livingston (MT) Enterprise

"OBITUARY OF ALBERT P. DAVIS -- Albert P. Davis departed this life October 20th 1921 at the Montana Soldiers Home, Columbia Falls, Montana. He was born at Providence, New York August 2nd, 1837 and was 84 years of age at the time of his death.
He enlisted in Co. E 105 Illinois Vol. Inf. August 13th., 1862 and was discharged August 4th, 1863 at Lavergue, Tenn.
He was admitted to the Home from Livingston, Montana July 8th 1921. He leaves to mourn his loss one son, George O. Davis of Carbella, Montana, and two daughters, Mrs. Bertha I. Dalley, of Abeeorokee, Montana and Mrs. Alice R. Cleveland of Madison, Wisconsin.
Interment was made in the Montana Soldiers Home Cemetery, Rev. R.W. Nelson, officiating Oct. 22nd, 1921"--27 Oct 1921, Helena (MT) Columbian
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Her family moved to Kansas in 1900. She graduated from the eighth grade and was certified to teach by State Normal School, Emporia, Kansas. She taught four years in an eight grade, one room school. On weekends whe was like a second mother to her family. She went to California in 1910 where she married her husband, a vinyardist. During the Depression of the 1930's, they saved their farm by Mortgage Moratorium. Amy taught public school for thirty years in California and retired to teach backward children in her home in Madera, California. They had no children.

Regarding Mortgage Moratoriums during the Great Depression, the following information from " State Courts and Mortgage Moratorium Laws in the 1930s: The Interaction of Economic Conditions and Political Institutions" by Udi Sommer and Quan Li, may be helpful. "The role of state judiciary in preventing foreclosures was enhanced during the1930s. By foreclosure, we refer to both residential and commercial foreclosures. Depending on the amount of judicial discretion granted by their state legislature, state courts’ dealings with the foreclosure procedure varied. In states where mortgage relief legislation was adopted, the courts in some instances were empowered to intervene on behalf of debtors in at least two major ways. First, creditors were prevented from obtaining title to a property for a specified period of time, which was usually set by the courts and at the courts’ discretion. Secondly, the courts could discretionarily set a rental price that was usually below the free market rental for debtors to pay during a grace period.

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Alternate date of death is 12 Jan 1983, per Find-a-grave.