The Welsh Saints Project

Given Name: Henry John
Surname: Davis/Davies

Gender: Male

Birth date: 7 August 1859

Birth place: Llandeilo, Carmarthenshire, Wales View Sources

Death date: 19 April 1925

Death place: Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States View Sources

Burial date: April 1925

Burial place: Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States View Sources

Father: Davis/Davies, Titus Lazarus
Mother: Mary Gwenllian Bowen

Siblings

David Lazarus Davis/Davies
Gwenllian Davis/Davies
Thomas A. Davis/Davies
John Henry Davis/Davies
Timothy Bowen Davis/Davies
Josiah Bowen Davis/Davies
Evan Thomas Davis/Davies
Daniel John Davis/Davies
Hannah Davis/Davies
Jenkin Bowen Davis/Davies

Sarah Alice Stephens (1864-1933)

Married 25 November 1885 in Logan, Cache, Utah, United States

Children

Davis, Harold Stephens
Davis, Thomas Stephens
Davis, Mary Alice
Davis, William John
Davis, Harold Stephens
Davis, Helen Lorena
Davis, Norma Louisa
Davis, Rulah Merle

View Sources

1880 US Census	Willard Precinct, Box Elder, Utah	Extract	Image
1900 US Census	Precinct 2 2, Salt Lake, Utah	Extract	Image
1910 US Census	Election Dist 22 2, Salt Lake, Utah	Extract	Image
1920 US Census	Precinct 34 2, Salt Lake, Utah	Extract	Image

Left London, Middlesex, England on 4 June 1863 aboard the ship Amazon.
Arrived in New York, Kings, New York, United States on 18 July 1863.

"Pioneer Database," database (history.churchofjesuschrist.org: accessed 14 August 2019), Henry John Davis entry, Thomas E. Ricks Company (1863).

"Saints by Sea," database and images (saintsbysea.lib.byu.edu: accessed 14 August 2019), Henry Davies entry, age 3, arrived 18 July 1863 on the Amazon.

Henry was the youngest of the children. He was brought across the ocean and the plains at just under age four, without his mother. He lived with his father until he came of age. Between June of 1880 and at least by early 1884, Henry went to live with his brother, David, and worked in the store for a time. Henry and David lived near each other in Salt Lake City for the rest of their lives. Henry married Sarah Alice Stephens 25 November 1885. Henry worked as a traveling salesman for Z.C.M.I. for 28 years and always “looked the gentleman.” He was a kind, loving husband to his wife, Alice, and was the father of eight children, with never a harsh word. He wrote Alice a letter every day while traveling. They had a farm on 5th South in Salt Lake. Later in their lives, Alice inherited her parent’s new, centrally heated home, at 45 East North Temple where they lived until Henry became ill and retired. He wanted to go back to their little farm house for the remainder of his days, so for a time, Alice moved back to the farm to care for him. He died of chronic myocarditis and interstitial nephritis on the 18 April 1925, at the age of sixty-five years.

Thanks to Elease King (eleasek@q.com) for sending the picture and the brief biography.

Henry John Davis/Davies

Siblings