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Sources consulted for the biography of:John H. Davis ( –1896)
Primary Sources
- Lynchburg Free Negro Register (1843–1865), no. 993 (John Davis, age "about twenty seven years" on Mar. 3, 1847), Library of Virginia.
- Lynchburg Register of Colored Population, 1865 (John Davis and his wife Ann), Library of Virginia.
- United States Census Schedules, Campbell County, 1870 (age forty-three on July 27), and Roanoke County, 1880 (age fifty-nine on June 11–12), both in Records of the Bureau of the Census, Record Group 29, National Archives and Records Administration, Washington, D.C.
- Davis deposition (giving age "about 60 years" on 9 July 1887), J. N. Gordon's Committee v. John H. Davis et als., 1887-052, Lynchburg City Chancery Records (1807–1945), Local Government Collections, Lynchburg Court Records, Library of Virginia.
- Correspondence in William Mahone Papers, David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina.
- Quotation in Daniel B. Williams, Emancipation Address: Our Duties and How to Discharge Them, . . . January 2, 1893 (1893), 7.
- Death Register (age sixty-nine), Roanoke City, Bureau of Vital Statistics, Commonwealth of Virginia Department of Health, Record Group 36, Library of Virginia.
Secondary Sources
- Lester J. Cappon, Virginia Newspapers, 1821–1935 (1936), 196.
- Raymond P. Barnes, A History of Roanoke (1968), 292, 347–348.
- Rand Dotson, Roanoke, Virginia, 1882–1912: Magic City of the New South (2007).
Newspapers
- Richmond Daily Whig, April 24, 1884
- Roanoke Leader, May 30, 1885
- Roanoke Weekly Press, April 2, 1892
- Roanoke Times, April 29, 1892; April 30, 1892; October 14, 1892
Obituaries
- Roanoke Daily Times, July 21, 1896 (age sixty-five)
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