Husband Thomas R. Davidson 1 2
Born: 6 Oct 1814 - Connellsville, Fayette Co, PA 1
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Died: 3 Nov 1875 1 2
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Father: Hon. William Davidson (1783-1867) 1 3 4 5 6 7
Mother: Sarah Rogers (Abt 1784-1856) 2 5 8
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Wife Isabella Austin 1
AKA: Isabelle Austin 2
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Father: John M. Austin ( - ) 1
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1 F Mary A. Davidson 9
AKA: Mary D. Davidson 1
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Spouse: Porter S. Newmyer (1847- ) 10
Marr: 10 Apr 1873 9
2 M William A. Davidson 1
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General Notes: Husband - Thomas R. Davidson
He received his education at home and at Kenyon College, Ohio, and after being admitted to the bar, practiced law for some years in Uniontown, Fayette County, Pennsylvania. Shortly after his marriage he located in Connellsville, his old home, where he continued during the remainder of his life in the duties of his profession, and engaged in various enterprises for the advancement of the community in which he was interested. He was very cautious and reticent in business pursuits, but was quite successful and accumulated a handsome estate. He had no desire for political advancement, preferring the more congenial walks of private life, though he once accepted the honorary office of presidential elector.
His appearance was very commanding, he being in stature six and one-half feet, finely proportioned, and weighing two hundred and forty-two pounds. Perhaps a more correct estimate of his character and standing could not be given than that expressed in the following extract from a tribute by James Darsie, who knew him long and well:
"His departure from our midst has left an aching void which cannot be filled. No other man can take his place, do the work, and command the confidence that was reposed in him by the entire community. He was indeed the rich man's counselor and the poor man's friend, and was universally esteemed, honored, and beloved as a man of lofty principle, generous and magnanimous impulses, and of spotless integrity. I have rarely met one who had so great an abhorrence of a mean, dishonorable, or dishonest act as he; indeed, the love of truth and justice was in him innate. While in principle stern and unbending, even to severity, in heart and sympathy he was tender as a child. He never disappointed the hopes and expectations of his friends, or betrayed a trust committed to his hands. He practiced his profession not so much for profit as to heal the animosities, adjust the difficulties, and restore the peace and confidence of neighbors. I presume I may safely say he settled more disputes by his sagacity, wisdom, and moderation than he ever did by the hard process of law, and oftentimes prevailed upon his clients to amicably settle their disputes rather than risk the vexation and uncertainty of an appeal to a legal tribunal. He was, indeed, a peacemaker in the highest sense of that term, and had a far more honest satisfaction in amicably settling a difficulty than in gaining a suit before a judge and jury. In one word, he filled the full out-line of that sentiment happily expressed by one of England's noblest bards,-
"'An honest man's the noblest work of God.'"
The following testimonial to his great worth is quoted from resolutions by the bar of Fayette County: "It is with heartfelt sorrow and unfeigned regret that we are compelled to submit to the loss of one so endeared to us all by long and pleasant associations. His genial, warm, and affectionate disposition, his tender regard for the feelings of others, his uniform courtesy and affability, and, above all, his high sense of honor and strict integrity secured to him the love and respect alike of bench and bar. This bar has lost a sound lawyer, an able counselor and upright man, whose honor and integrity were only equaled by his unassuming modesty and affability."