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.
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Genre (Short List)
photographs
Genre (AAT)
photographs
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Image
Date Original
1930
Subject (LCSH)
Pioneers--Montana--Yellowstone County. Davis, Martha J. Means Penrod Mountview Cemetery (Billings, Mont.) Indianapolis (Ind.).
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Date Digitized
2007-03-02
Relation
Montana Monographs by O'Donnell. Billings Gazette, March 9, 1934, p. 1.
