A man from the Johnson Chapel Community died in a one car crash just after midnight Saturday, December 28 in White County.
Dead is 25 year old Joshua Tyler Davis of Young Ridge Road.
The Tennessee Highway Patrol told WJLE that Davis was in a 2006 Chrysler Sebring traveling south on Indian Mound Road near the intersection of Pin Hook Road when he lost control while attempting to negotiate a curve and left the roadway, striking a tree.
Davis was not wearing his seatbelt.
The Sparta-White County Rescue Squad was dispatched to the scene to extricate Davis from the car.
The accident was investigated by Trooper Kevin Ballew and Sergeant Jeff Cook of the Tennessee Highway Patrol.
Davis was a member of the Johnson Chapel Freewill Baptist Church. The funeral was held Monday at 2:00 p.m. at the Chapel of Love-Cantrell Funeral Home. Elmore Judd and Tim Judd officiated and burial followed in the Peeled Chestnut Cemetery.
Davis was preceded in death by his brother, Scott Lee Davis; an uncle, Bobby Rice; and his paternal grandparents, Leonna and Norman Davis.
Survivors include his parents, Jimmy “Hammer” and Connie Davis; maternal grandparents, Bob and Ruth Rice; four uncles, Jack and wife Mary Davis, Kenneth and wife Shawn Rice, Terry Rice, and Les and wife Regina Davis; and one aunt, Tootsie Taylor all of Sparta. Two nieces, Kylee Davis and Kyra Agee both of Smithville.
Love-Cantrell Funeral Home is in charge of the arrangements
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