Montgomery County PA Archives Biographies.....Davis, George G. June 25, 1845 - 
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Source: Biographical Annals of Montgomery County Pennsylvania, T. S. Benham & Company and the Lewis Publishing Company, 1904
Author: Ellwood Roberts, Editor

GEORGE G. DAVIS, of Welsh descent, for thirty years a 
prominent undertaker and well known as a successful business 
man, is a native of Upper Dublin township, Montgomery 
county, where he was born June 25, 1845. His parents lived 
at Puff's Corner.

He was reared to farm pursuits, and attended the public 
schools during the winter months, assisting in farm labor at 
other seasons of the year. He is the son of John and Jane S. 
(Gamble) Davis, she a native of Upper Dublin township, he 
born in Wales. The grandfather of the subject of this sketch 
died in Wales, and his widow brought the fancily to America. 
They settled in Montgomery county, and she kept the family 
together, her son John (father) learning the trade of a 
wheelwright. When he had completed his apprenticeship he 
settled at Puff's Corner, and carried on the wheelwright 
business. The mother affiliated with the German Baptist 
church. There were two sons Samuel, also a wheelwright, and 
John.

John Davis remained at Puff's Corner until his death, which 
occurred March 20, 1850. He was only a middle-aged man at 
the time of his death. He was a Baptist in religious faith. 
He married Jane S. Gamble, a daughter of John and Mary 
(Service) Gamble, natives of Ireland, who emigrated to 
America and settled in Bucks county, Pennsylvania, about 
1835. He was a carpenter by occupation, and about 1840 
located in Upper Dublin township, near Fort Washington. He 
purchased a home with about two acres of land, built a shop, 
and later became a contractor and builder, doing much work 
in this line, and still later added undertaking to his 
business, in which he became very successful, so that he 
finally abandoned carpentry and devoted his entire attention 
to undertaking. In 1860 he added fourteen acres of land to 
his previous purchase, and died in 1877. He was a Democrat 
in politics, and in religious faith a member of the German 
Baptist church. His wife died in 1868.

Their children: Jane (mother); John S. Gamble, a farmer in 
Bucks county until 1876, when he abandoned farming and 
engaged in the coal business at Willow Grove, dying at Fox 
Chase, and leaving four sons and three daughters; Margaret, 
Mrs. W. J. Scheetz.

The children of John and Jane Davis: Anna (Mrs. A. McAfee); 
George G., subject of this sketch; John the subject of 
sketch; Margaret (Mrs. R Buchanan); John G., a carpenter 
residing near Ambler.

George G. Davis remained with his mother until 1861, when he 
was sixteen years of age, and then went to his grandfather 
Gamble's, where he learned the trades of carpenter and 
undertaker, and has ever since continued in the business, 
succeeding his grandfather at his death in 1874. He is a 
graduate of the Champion College of Embalming, and is a 
master of the art of caring for the dead and giving 
attention to their burial, and has all the necessary 
equipment for carrying it on successfully.

Mr. Davis married, February 6, 1866, Miss Lydia Freas, a 
native of Montgomery county, where he was born in 1844.She 
is. a daughter of Jesse Freas, whose wife was a Miss Keifer, 
both families being of German descent, although the Freas 
family have been long settled in Montgomery county. Jesse 
Freas resided in Upper Hanover township, where he was a 
justice of the peace, and a widely known and highly 
respected citizen. The family were Lutherans.

The children of Mr. and Mrs. Jesse Freas; Anna, wife of B. 
F. Sill, of Barto, Berks county; Mary (Mrs. William bishop); 
Kate (Mrs. R. Sliker); Lydia, wife of Mr. George Davis; 
Susan (Mrs. A. Freed). Both parents of Mrs. Davis are 
deceased.
 
The children of Mr. and Mrs. George G. Davis: Margaret, wife 
of Frank Potts, a farmer; Jesse F., his father's assistant 
in his business, and resides at Ambler; I. May, wife of F. 
S. Arnold, a butcher; Anna C. and Bessie, unmarried. Mr. and 
Mrs. Davis are members of the Reformed church. Mr. Davis is 
a member of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, of the 
Junior Order of United American Mechanics, and of the 
Masonic fraternity.

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