1841: On January 19, Joseph Smith received a revelation in which Amos Davies was instructed to pay stock into the hands of those appointed to build a boarding house called the Nauvoo House.

Little information is available on Amos Davies. The name does no appear in the LDSVRL, CH, nor ECH. However, an Amos Davis is mentioned in Harold Schindler’s Orrin Porter Rockwell. That record indicates that Amos Davis was a tavern-hotel owner and a captain in the Nauvoo Legion. Rockwell fell in love with Davis’s wife and acknowledged it publicly by December, 1845. She left Amos to be with Rockwell.