Davis, Joseph Hoomes
Davis, Joseph Hoomes a minister in the Methodist Episcopal Church South, was born in Gloucester County, Virginia, April 13, 1809; was converted in his fourteenth year; educated in the academies of Gloucester and Northumberland, and in 1836 entered the Virginia Conference, in which he labored till his death, May 8, 1879. See Minutes of Annual Conferences of the M.E. Church South, 1879, page 105.