John M. K. Davis

Start of career Davis was initially assigned to the 1st Regiment of Artillery and Fort Schuyler, New York. In 1916, Davis and his wife lost their baggage in a hotel fire while they were spending the winter in Maitland, Florida. He died at the home of his son Kelso in Hartford, Connecticut, on May 20, 1920. He was buried at Arlington National Cemetery.

Family In June 1870, Davis married Frances Caroline Sanger (1848–1917), the sister of Major General Joseph P. Sanger. John Henry Kelso Davis (1875 1956) was known as Kelso and became a Hartford, Connecticut, printing company executive. He was a longtime member of the National Guard and Organized Reserve who retired as a brigadier general. Franck Everly Taylor Davis was born in 1887 and died in 1898.