Cephas L. Davis

Biography

Cephas L. Davis (November 1839 – May 26, 1907) was a pastor, teacher and state legislator who served in the Virginia Senate after the Reconstruction era, from 1879 - 1880. He was born a slave to Cephas Davis and Annie "Frances" Davis around November 1839 in Christiansville Mecklenburg County, Virginia (now Chase City). He became a free man sometime before the end of the American Civil War and attended an educational institution before going on to teach former slaves in Maryland from 1869 to 1870.

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