Excerpt from Memorial Addresses on the Life and Character of Garrett Davis: A Senator From Kentucky, Delivered in the Senate and House of Representatives, Forty-Second Congress, Third Session, December 18, 1872

Mr. President: I rise to announce an event which will be received by the Senate, I am sure, with profound regret and the sincerest sorrow.

Hon. Garrett davis, late a Senator from the Commonwealth of Kentucky, in the Congress of the United States, is no more Upon the 22d of September last, at his own home near Paris, Kentucky, he passed quietly away, cheered by the presence of his sorrowing children and surrounded by devoted personal friends.

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