Martha Means Davis was born December 13, 1849 in Indianapolis. Married Samuel Penrod in 1873. Came to Montana in 1881. Two children, Winifred and Cornelius, died shortly after arriving in Billings and are buried at Mountview Cemetery. Samuel Penrod died in 1884, just prior to his son, William's, birth. She married John Davis in 1888. See Mrs Penrod Davis - See Montana Monographs by O'Donnell. Obit 1934-03-09 for Martha Davis, pioneer widow of John P Davis and mother of W E Penrod - See Local Pioneer Woman Dies, Billings Gazette, March 9, 1934, p. 1. WE Penrod was born in 1884 in Billings. In 1936, only two of her six children were still alive.
Creator
Unknown
Genre (AAT)
photographs
Type
Image;StillImage
Language
eng
Date Original
1930
Subject (LCSH)
Pioneers--Montana--Yellowstone County. Davis, Martha J. Means Penrod Mountview Cemetery (Billings, Mont.) Indianapolis (Ind.).
Rights Management
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Contributors
Unknown
Contributing Institution
Billings Public Library
Geographic Coverage
Billings (Mont.)
Digital Collection
Billings Public Library Historic Collection
Digitization Specifications
HP Scanner, unknown model, unknown scanning software; 12,506,000 Bytes file size for master TIF file; 2941 x 2372 dimension size for master TIF file; web-viewable images created from master TIF using Microsoft Office Picture Manager and CONTENTdm 5.0.
Date Digitized
2007-03-02
Relation
Montana Monographs by O'Donnell. Billings Gazette, March 9, 1934, p. 1.
