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Joseph
Thomas Davis, son of William H. and Mary Ann Farris Davis, was born April
13, 1881 in Franklin County. He owned and operated Joe Davis Truck Lines
in Winchester for many years, was a member of the Franklin County Board
of Education for three terms, and was the first president of the Tennessee
Motor Truck Association in 1936-1938. He married Julia Hart in 1906 and
they had an adopted son. Joe was Mayor of Winchester from 1941-1944. He
died at Emerald-Hodgson Memorial Hospital in Sewanee as the result of
an automobile accident on October 23, 1956 and was buried in Mt. Garner
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Mayor
Joseph Davis |
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1941-1944 |