Mr. Arthur Davis sr., who is probably the oldest man in this county, and one of the oldest in this part of Georgia, is very low, and from what we hear can not live much longer. He has no accurate knowledge of his age, but from the best information obtainable, from him and his children, some of them old men, he must have been born between 1780 and 1783--certainly not later than 1783 and probably before 1780. This would make him 106 to 109 years old. He has been a man of great physical strength, and has always been blessed with good health. He made a good living, raised a large family, has been married twice, having married his present wife only a few years ago. He has been a consistent member of the Baptist church for 50 or 75 years.

This old landmark lived in this county, and raised some of his children, when railroads were not thought of, when steel pens were not invented, when lead pencils were unknown, ruled paper was not made, and when our grand old county was probably without any kind of mail service. In those days our old friend went to Savannah to do his trading once a year with his horse cart, and drove his hogs and cattle before him. Men stayed at home then, and made mostly all they needed. But those days are gone, and now the world is not big enough to hold some of our boys, and every day is not often enough for them to go to town, and their mothers and sisters cant iron their shirts to suit them and nothing looks good enough. The country has greatly improved since then but we can learn some important lessons from these old gray-headed sires of generation that has passed to the rear in the ceaseless march of time.