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Richard G. Davis
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The Old Davis Home
This home in Smithland, Ky., is presently known as the Rudd home. It was originally the Davis home as my father and his brother owned it at one time and sold it to Mr. Wille Rudd who then rehabilitated it and moved into it as his residence. Prior to my father and uncle owning it, the house was the home of Kate Davis Love, a decendant of my father's side of the family. I remember my father telling me that she was pretty much a recluse in that she would not allow anyone in the house and that she pretty much lived on the second floor. She would have her groceries delivered to her home and she would lower a basket to the ground level and the delivery person would place the groceries in the basket. She would pull the basket up and then send the money down to pay for them. She is buried in the Davis family burial plot in the Smithland Cemetery on the hill overlooking the Ohio River as is my father. It is the only burial plot in the cemetery having a wrott iron fence around it. I remember that my father had told me that the Davis family had been quite prominant in Smithland years ago as they owned a grocery or mercantile store.