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A Guide to the Beverly J. Davis, Jr. Papers, 1936-1987 Davis, Beverly J., Jr., Papers, 1936-1987 42850

A Guide to the Beverly J. Davis, Jr. Papers, 1936-1987

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Accession Number 42850


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Repository
The Library of Virginia
Accession Number
42850
Title
Beverly J. Davis, Jr. Papers, 1936-1987
Physical Description
10 cubic feet (23 boxes)
Language
English

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Preferred Citation

Rev. Beverly J. Davis, Jr. Papers, 1936-1987. Accession 42850. Personal papers collection, The Library of Virginia, Richmond, Virginia.

Acquisition Information

Gift of Jim Davis, Richmond.

Biographical Information

Beverly James Davis, Jr. was born in Dendron, Surry County, Virginia on 4 May 1921. The family settled in Richmond, where Davis graduated from Randolph-Macon College in 1942. He then began his divinity studies at the Candler School of Theology at Emory University in Atlanta. His education was interupted when he enlisted in the U.S. Army in 1943, and served as a chaplain's assistant in the Aleutian Islands. Following the war, he returned to Richmond and enrolled at Union Theological Seminary. Rev. Davis served various pastorates in 22 churches and 12 charges over the course of his 42 year career. He was also assistant secretary of the Virginia Conference and editor of the Conference Journal. He married Conna Louise Lawhead (1924-1985) in 1947. Rev. Davis died in Richmond on 25 December 1991, and is buried in Maury Cemetery.

Scope and Content

Papers, 1936-1987, of Rev. Beverly J. Davis, Jr. (1921-1991), of Richmond, Virginia, while he served as pastor at various churches in the Virginia Annual Conference of the United Methodist Church.

Churches represented in the collection include Beulah, Bishop Memorial, Central, Kenwood, Mount Hermon, Phoebus, and Watson Memorial, and also charges including Buckingham, Caroline, Chatham, New Kent, and Warren-Riverton.

Includes board minutes, budgets, church bulletins, committee reports, correspondence, directories, histories, lists of officers, mailings, membership lists, newsletters, programs, quarterly conference reports, and sermons and writings. The earliest material in the collection is coursework while Davis was a student at Randolph-Macon College, Emory University, and Union Theological Seminary.

The collection also contains materials relating to Davis' other interests, and those of his wife Conna Lawhead Davis (1924-1985), including trains and model railroading, stamps, home workshop ideas, handcrafts, Sunday School lessons, souvenirs from their honeymoon in New York City and Philadelphia in 1947, a social column written by Conna Davis for the Farmville Herald, and her continuing education coursework.

Contents List

Box 1 Folder 1-2
Art and Artists .
Box 1 Folder 3
Automobile .
Box 1 Folder 4-5
Beulah Church .
Box 1 Folder 6-12
Bible - New Testament .
Box 2 Folder 1-5
Bible - New Testament .
Box 2 Folder 6-10
Bible - Old Testament .
Box 2 Folder 11-12
Bishop Memorial Methodist Church .
Map-case 2 Drawer 13
Blueprints - Additions to Watson Memorial United Methodist Church (see also "Building Committee - Watson Memorial"
Box 3 Folder 1-2
Buckingham Charge .
Box 3 Folder 3
Budget - Watson Memorial .
Box 3 Folder 4-6
Building Committee - Watson Memorial (see also "Blueprints") .
Box 3 Folder 7-10
Bulletins - Misc. Church and Chapel .
Box 4 Folder 1-2
Bulletins - Watson Memorial .
Box 4 Folder 3
Campbell County .
Box 4 Folder 4
Campus Ministries .
Box 4 Folder 5-8
Caroline Charge .
Box 4 Folder 9
Census and Surveys .
Box 4 Folder 10
Central Church - Letters to Membership .
Box 4 Folder 11-13
Central Methodist Church .
Box 5 Folder 1-3
Central Methodist Church .
Box 5 Folder 4-9
Central Methodist Church - Bulletins .
Box 5 Folder 10
Certificates .
Box 6 Folder 1-6
Chatham Charge .
Box 6 Folder 7
Chatham Community Education Council .
Box 6 Folder 8
Child Psychology .
Box 6 Folder 9
Children .
Box 6 Folder 10
Children's Day .
Box 6 Folder 11
Children's Home .
Box 6 Folder 12-13
Chrismon Circle .
Box 7 Folder 1-6
Christmas .
Box 7 Folder 7
Church Extension .
Box 7 Folder 8-11
Church History .
Box 7 Folder 12
Citizenship .
Box 8 Folder 1-2
Civic Clubs .
Box 8 Folder 3
Communication Conference .
Box 8 Folder 4
Communion .
Box 8 Folder 5
Conference Relations .
Box 8 Folder 6-11
Conna - Notebook .
Box 8 Folder 12-13
Conna - School Exercises .
Box 9 Folder 1
Conna - School Exercices and Examinations .
Box 9 Folder 2-3
Conna - Sermons and Talks .
Box 9 Folder 4
Corporate Board for Conference Claimants .
Box 9 Folder 5
Correspondence - Congressional .
Box 9 Folder 6-8
Correspondence - General .
Box 9 Folder 9
Council of Churches .
Box 9 Folder 10
Council on Ministries .
Box 10 Folder 1
Counseling .
Box 10 Folder 2
Credit Union .
Box 10 Folder 3-6
Daily Vacation Church School .
Box 10 Folder 7
Danville Area Crusade .
Box 10 Folder 8
Danville District .
Box 10 Folder 9-11
Directories .
Box 10 Folder 12
Easter and Lent .
Box 11 Folder 1-2
Emory University .
Box 11 Folder 3
Enlistment for Church Occupations .
Box 11 Folder 4-5
Equipment .
Box 11 Folder 6-11
Equipment and Parsonage .
Box 12 Folder 1
Family .
Box 12 Folder 2
Farmville Herald .
Box 12 Folder 3
Fire Department .
Box 12 Folder 4
First Aid and Rescue Squad .
Box 12 Folder 5
Funerals .
Box 12 Folder 6
Gideons .
Box 12 Folder 7
Golden Cross .
Box 12 Folder 8-10
Handcraft Patterns and Instructions .
Box 12 Folder 11
Healing .
Box 12 Folder 12-13
Hermitage Guild .
Box 12 Folder 14
Higher Education .
Box 12 Folder 15
Homiletics .
Box 12 Folder 16-17
Honeymoon Souvenirs .
Box 13 Folder 1
Honeymoon Souvenirs .
Box 13 Folder 2
Hoover, J. Edgar - Addresses, 1936-1939 .
Box 13 Folder 3-4
Insurance .
Box 13 Folder 5
Insurance -Auto .
Box 13 Folder 6
Kenwood Church .
Box 13 Folder 7
Lay Leader .
Box 13 Folder 8
Laymen's Day .
Box 13 Folder 9
Lay Speaker .
Box 13 Folder 10
Lay Witness Mission .
Box 13 Folder 11-12
Leadership Training Schools .
Box 13 Folder 13
Library .
Box 13 Folder 14
Lions Club .
Box 13 Folder 15
Lynchburg District .
Box 14 Folder 1-2
Mailing Lists .
Box 14 Folder 3-4
Marriage .
Box 14 Folder 5
Membership Matters - Watson Memorial .
Box 14 Folder 6
Mental Health .
Box 14 Folder 7
Methodism .
Box 14 Folder 8
Ministry Sunday .
Box 14 Folder 9
Miscellaneous .
Box 14 Folder 10-13
Missions .
Box 14 Folder 14
Model Railroads .
Box 15 Folder 1-6
Mount Hermon .
Box 15 Folder 7-8
Music and Song Sheets .
Box 15 Folder 9-10
New Kent Charge .
Box 15 Folder 11
Nominations and Personnel .
Box 16 Folder 1
Parent Teacher Association .
Box 16 Folder 2
Parsonage .
Box 16 Folder 3
Pastor-Parish Relations .
Box 16 Folder 4-5
Pastoral Theology .
Box 16 Folder 6
Peace and World Order .
Box 16 Folder 7-8
Pensions .
Box 16 Folder 9-13
Phoebus Methodist Church .
Box 16 Folder 14
Planning Conference .
Box 17 Folder 1
POAU .
Box 17 Folder 2-3
Poetry .
Box 17 Folder 4
Post Office .
Box 17 Folder 5
Prayer .
Box 17 Folder 6
Preaching Plan .
Box 17 Folder 7-9
Printing .
Box 17 Folder 10
Property Committee .
Box 17 Folder 11
Publicity .
Box 17 Folder 12-15
Quarterly Conference Reports .
Box 18 Folder 1
Quarterly Conference Reports .
Box 18 Folder 2-3
Race Relations .
Box 18 Folder 4
Richmond District .
Box 18 Folder 5
Robertson, A. Willis - Speeches .
Box 18 Folder 6-7
Rural Church .
Box 18 Folder 8
School Compositions .
Box 18 Folder 9
Schools and Colleges .
Box 18 Folder 10
Scouting .
Box 18 Folder 11-13
Sermons .
Box 18 Folder 14
Sermons and Writings .
Box 19 Folder 1-8
Sermons and Writings .
Box 19 Folder 8a
Sermons and Writings - Recordings, 1979-1980 .
Box 19 Folder 9
Social Security/Medicare .
Box 19 Folder 10-11
Stamps .
Box 20 Folder 1
Student Day .
Box 20 Folder 2
Summer Fun Program .
Box 20 Folder 3
Symbolism .
Box 20 Folder 4
Thanksgiving .
Box 20 Folder 5-8
Theology .
Box 20 Folder 9-13
Trains and Model Railroading .
Box 21 Folder 1
Trains and Model Railroading .
Box 21 Folder 2
TRAFCO .
Box 21 Folder 3-4
Treasurer .
Box 21 Folder 5
Trustees .
Box 21 Folder 6
T.B. and Birth Defects Association .
Box 21 Folder 7
United Methodist Men .
Box 21 Folder 8
United Methodist Women .
Box 21 Folder 9-10
United Methodist Youth Fellowship .
Box 21 Folder 11
United Nations and UNICEF .
Box 21 Folder 12
Veterans Administration .
Box 21 Folder 13-14
Warren-Riverton Charge .
Box 22 Folder 1
Watson Memorial United Methodist Church .
Box 22 Folder 2
Wills and Legacies .
Box 22 Folder 3
Work Area on Ecumenical Affairs .
Box 22 Folder 4-8
Work Area on Education .
Box 22 Folder 9-10
Workshop .
Box 23 Folder 1-3
Workshop .
Box 23 Folder 4-6
Workshop Ideas .