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1 At least one living individual is linked to this note - Details withheld. Family: F0485
 
2 From Corpus Christi Caller-Times newspaper of 18 September 1917:

Hunnicutt-Grant

A quiet and pretty wedding took place Sunday evening when Miss Thelma Irene Grant and Lieutenant Robert W. Hunnicutt were married at the bride's home on Broadway. The house was decorated in ferns and pink oleanders and pot plants. The bride's gown was burgundy chiffon taffeta with gold trimmings, with hat and boots to match. The attendants were Miss Fannie Hunnicutt of Marlin, sister of the groom, and Herbert Grant, brother of the bride, who came from McAllen to be present at the ceremony.

For the entrance of the bridal party Miss Willie Roberts played Mendelssohn's Wedding March and during the ceremony, which was performed by Rev. Dr. Henry Austin of the First Presbyterian Church, played "Hearts and Flowers."

The wedding came as a surprise to the friends of the young bride, who is the daughter of Dr. and Mrs. J. H. Grant. Lieutenant Hunnicutt is First Lieutenant of Company F, Third Texas, now stationed at Camp Scurry.

Lieutenant and Mrs. Hunnicutt will be at home at 1318 Second Street.

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Camp Scurry was established by the Sixth Infantry Brigade (made up of the Second and Third Texas Regiments) of the National Guard Unit federalized to combat Pancho Villa and other Mexican bandits. It occupied most of the land on which the Spohn Hospital complex on Ocean Drive, Corpus Christi, Texas, now stands. Camp Scurry was closed in 1917. 		Family: F0007
 
3 MARRIAGE BOND


Husband: Thomas Riddle
Wife: Agnes Mims

Know all men by those present that we Thomas Riddle and William Robards are held firmly and bound unto our Soveign lord King George the second by the Grace of God of Great Britian, France, and Ireland, King Defender of faith, Be, in the sum of fifty pounds current money of Virgina. Which payment will surely to be made unto our said Sovereign Lord King, his heirs and successors. We bind ourselves and every of us our heirs, Executors and Administrators jointly and severally by these present.

Witnessed our hand and seals, this XI day of October. Anno Domini MDCCVV, 1755
Thomas Riddle, William Robards

The bond upon of the above Obligation is such that if there is not a lawful cause to obstruct a marriage intended to be had and solemnized between the above bound Thomas Riddle and Agnes Mims, daughter David Mims. Then this obligation to be void, otherwise in full force.

Signed, Sealed, and Delivered in presents of Valentine Wood, Thomas Riddle, and William Robards;

Sir I do hereby give my consent that you may grant Mr. Thomas Riddle a Marriage License to be married to my daughter Agnes Mims, of my hand and seal.

David Mims Witnessed, Hezekiah Puryear, Dury Mims October 11, 1755 Goochland, County, Virgina 		Family: F0711
 
4 Some records indicate that Isaac Calloway Grant and Catherine Worley were married on 6 May 1830. Family: F0522
 
5 The wedding certificate shows signatures of Francis and Mary Worley of their son Bracey (Brassey) and also Caleb and Susannah.  Family: F0976
 
6 There is considerable debate as to the name of William Tolleson's wife. According to Ellen Tolleson Reesh's research, family history by Kansas, the daughter of Benjamin Hitson Harrison Tolleson, William's wife was Patsy Hitson; but, it is thought that Kansas may have confused his mother's name for that of his wife. Mary ?
 
7 Burial: Iowa Valley Cemetery - Rural Madison, Nebraska - 11 Miles West (State Hwy. 32) of Madison, Nebraska

Sec. 4 Kalamazoo Precinct/Township, Madison County, Nebraska

Zde v Panu Odpociva Here in Peace Rests
Frantisek
Ambroz
Rozen Born
26 Srp 1825
Zemrel Died
5 Kvetna 1912
Odpocivej v Pokojl Rest in Peace

Footstone: Otec Father

Zde v Panu Odpociva Here in Peace Rests
Marie Ambroz
Rozena Born
27 Kvet 1825
Zemrela Died
18 Cervence 1908
Odpocivej v Pokojl Rest in Peace

Footstone: Matka Mother

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Iowa Census 1880

Name Relation Marital Status Gender Race Age Birthplace Occupation Father's Birthplace Mother's Birthplace
Francis AMBROSE Self M Male W 55 BOHEMIA Farmer BOH BOH
Mary AMBROSE Wife M Female W 55 BOH Keeping House BOH BOH
John AMBROSE Son S Male W 22 BOH Farmer BOH BOH
Jacob AMBROSE Son S Male W 20 BOH Farmer BOH BOH
Teresa AMBROSE Dau S Female W 13 IA At School BOH B
Michael AMBROSE Son S Male W 10 IA At School BOH B
Thomas AMBROSE Son S Male W 8 IA At School BOH BOH  		Frantisek Francis "Frank" Ambroz
 
8 Information from Carla Davis Woolley:

A. W. Bankston was Mary E. Davis' second husband. It is believed that A. W. Bankston died from rather unusual circumstances -- something to do with being in a fight/duel over his sister's honor. 		A. W. Bankston
 
9 Thomas Brassey, father of Mary, had purchased quite a lot of land from William Penn, and lived next door to the Caleb Pusey, and Anne Stone Worley Pusey family.

Women's Minutes, Chester Monthly Meeting, Feb 2 1709, Mary Worley chosen Overseer for Chester. Her name frequently appears in the service of the meeting until last found Sept 1718.  		Mary Brassey
 
10 Thomas Brassey (often spell Bracey, Bracey) from Wilaston, Cheshire, England; arrived at Chester (Upland) in 1682. He appears to have been a man of means and of reliable integrity; was a member of the Society of Free Traders, and at a meeting of that Society held at London on the 29 of May he was placed at the head of a committee of twelve to reside in Pennsylvania and manage the affairs of the Society here. He was a member of the First Provincial Assembly held in Philadelphia in 1683, and doubtless took a part in that held at Chester previously. But not withstanding the public trusts with which he was charged, he found time to give constant attention to the meetings of the Friends, of which he appears to have been a highly respected member and esteemed minister. He made a settlement in the upper part of Chester Township but in his latter years lived in the Borough. He died in 1691 leaving two daughters to survive him, Rebecca, who was married to Thomas Thomson of New Jersey; and Mary, who became the wife of Francis Worley. Thomas Brassey had suffered distress of his goods in his native Country for preaching the gospel and for absenting himself from the national worship.  Thomas Brassey
 
11 Taken from the book, "Runnels Is My County," by Charlsie Poe, page 115:

........Another jeweler, James E. Brewer, came to town in 1898 and locate in the Ed Walker drugstore, where he repaired watches. He soon added a small stock of jewelry. In 1906 he constructed a handsome two-story rock building and rented the second story for offices. L. R. Tigner became associated with Brewer in 1914 and purchased the business in 1921........ 		James Edward Brewer
 
12 Master Plumber. Stood 6'0" tall and weighed 160 pounds. Cause of death was a heart attack. Alton Fieldon Callaway
 
13 Most of the William Harley Callaway information came from Mabel Lodema Callaway Wise's records courtesy of Ann Schulz (Thomas Emory Davis) Mabel Lodema Callaway
 
14 Did Augustine Hunnicutt marry Mary Alice Parke or Mary Carter? There IS a connection between Alice Carter Parke and Mary Carter and that connection helps answer this question.

From John Bennett Boddie's "Historical Southern Families," Volume IV, pages 250 -- 251: "John Hunnicutt born circa 1650, died Surry Co. VA, 1699. He is thought to have been the brother or perhaps the son of Augustine Hunnicutt, an early resident of Surry Co. VA, whose Will names sons Augustine and Robert, daughter Katherine and wife Mary. The fact that he [John Hunnicutt] was not mentioned in the Will of Augustine does not prove that he was not a son, for in Surry Co. VA. Order Book No. 1, 1671-1690, page 405, May 1683, is found: "The difference between John Hunnicutt and the estate of Augustine Hunnicutt is dismissed." It is very likely that the reason John was not mentioned in the Will is because he was the son of Augustine by a marriage prior to Mary, the wife named in the will, and that he had already received his share of the estate." (end)

So, we know that at least one wife of Augustine Hunnicutt was named Mary. Was this Mary Alice Parke or Mary Carter?

1661. Jan. 25, (year 1660-1661, Old Syle), Alice Parke & Geo. Carter her sonn to Augustine Hunnicutt to farme lette for 99 years 400 acres of land on Lower Chippoles, 300 acres bounding East on land of Mr. Dunston SW & SE into main woods & NW upon land of Alice Parke & Geo. Carter, called by ye name of ye Ovens Mouth, 100 acres on the NW side of sd land and a small run of water that goes by Mr. Pettaways door and so directly upon a straight [line?] from the head thereof so far as said Parkes and Carters land goes, upon payment of one capon at Christmas each year for acknowledgement of the same. Signed Augustin Hunnicutt (signed with his signature). Wit. G. Watkins, Matthew Fownes. Recorded Feb. 26, 1683/4. [Note regarding this document: This will show that this property was given to Augustine Hunnicutt for love and affection and marrying Mary Carter, dau. of the earlier mentioned Wm. Carter as shown under Entry No 4, of this series of issues dated Oct. 14th and Oct. 21st, 1962. This is how Augustine Hunnicutt came into possession of land in Surry Co. VA.

Alice Carter Parke (Parkes) was married first to Wm. Carter, then to Capt. Giles Parkes second, and Mary Carter and Geo. Carter (Lawyer) were children of Alice and Wm. Carter, along with Wm Carter Jr. who married Elizabeth, who married Edward Pettaway upon Wm Carter Jr.'s death. Mary Alice Carter Parke (Parkes) is the mother and Mary Carter is the daughter.

Augustine Hunnicutt married Mary Carter, daughter of Wm. Carter and Mary Alice Carter (later Parke/Parkes). 		Mary Carter
 
15 Taken from the book, "Runnels Is My County," by Charlsie Poe, page 115:

........The first jewelry store [in Ballinger] was located to one side in the front of the J. Y. Pearce Drug Company. Oscar Pearson opened the first business [jewelry business] in 1895 but sold to Asa Cordill the next year and went into in oil business. In 1907, Mr. Cordill moved his store to the rear of the First National Bank Building. The store was similar to those of today but carried no silver or china. He had a large music box enclosed in glass, eight-feet wide, with a big disc inside upon which there was a long playing record. Cordill did his own repairs, watch-work, and was his own salesman. In 1945 he sold to Ed Curry who moved the store to its present location and became partners with Charles Hambrick in 1946........ 		Asa Devereau Cordill
 
16 Provided by James Forbus (bestwecanbe@yahoo.com) 6 August 2001:

William (Bill) Grant Cordill played with Harry James and his father, Everette, in the Christy Brothers Circus Band from 1928 into the early 1930s.

No children. 		William Grant Cordill
 
17 BOBBIE JEAN PHILLIPS

Bobbie Jean Phillips, 71, of Clute, died on Wednesday, April 7, 2004, in Lake Jackson.

She was born to Charles and Virgil Tolleson Davis in Bay City, Texas, on October 8, 1932. She lived in Brazoria County all of her life and was a member of First Missionary Baptist Church of West Columbia.

Her parents preceded her in death.

A memorial service will held in Bobbie's honor at Palms Funeral Home in Angleton on Saturday, April 10, 2004, at 11:00 a.m. with Bro. Carroll Grigsby officiating.

Surviving are her husband Manuel Phillips; sons, Edward McClendon Jr. of Brazoria, Thomas Eli McClendon of Houston, Scott Allen McClendon of Angleton; daughter, Phyllis McClendon Bulin and husband, Ronnie, of Silsbee; sisters, Sophie Buach of Brazoria, Marqurite Utley of Knoxville, Tennessee, Hilma Breen of Grand Rapids, Michigan; numerous stepchildren and stepgrandchildren; nine grandchildren; seven great-grandchildren; her children's father, Edward McClendon, Sr.; and many other relatives.

Arrangements by Palms Funeral Home of Angleton, Texas. (979) 849-4343. 		Bobbie Jean Davis
 
18 Obituary from 25 February 1966 Daily Tribune:

Bonnie Katheryn Davis, 19, died early this morning at her home at 1407 Live Oak. Funeral services will be held at 3 p.m. Monday at the Church of the Nazarene with the Rev. Ralph Wright and Rev. Ruth Hickman officiating.

Interment will follow in Roselawn Memorial Park.

Bonnie was a senior in Bay City High School and a member of the Church of the Nazarene.

Survivors include her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Keefer Davis of Bay City; one sister, Barbara Diane and one brother Thomas Robin; grandfather, C. T. Davis of Bay City, and grandmother, Mrs. Thelma Hunnicutt of Bay City.

Pallbearers will be C. J. Lindsey, Alva Springer, Billy Ware, W. W. Sifford, Frank Swinford and Albert Chambless.

Services are under the direction of Taylor Brothers Funeral Home.

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Retrospective from Bay City High School 4 March 1996 student newspaper, The CAT'S TALE:

In Retrospect

Dedicated to Bonnie Davis who passed away on February 25, 1966.

She came to me an hour each day,
Each time with a pleasant smile.
What price that smile?
-- I wonder.

She came to me an hour each day,
Each time with a helping hand.
What price that hand?
-- I wonder.

She came to me an hour each day,
Each time with work well done.
What price that work?
-- I wonder.

She came to me an hour each day,
Each time with courage untold.
What price that courage?
-- I wonder.

She came to me an hour each day,
Each time with faith profound.
What price that faith?
-- I wonder.

She came to me an hour each day,
I question, "Had I been she
Would I have gone
So unfaltering on?"
I wonder. . .

Lillian K. Willis

Bonnie Davis, a member of the senior class, died Friday, Frebruary 25, 1966. While in high school, she was an outstanding student in all her classes. Besides being a member of the National Honor Society, she was active in other school activites when her health permitted. This year she was the typist for the CAT'S TALE. She was loved and admired by all those who knew her. 		Bonnie Kathryn Davis
 
19 Obituary published in the Bay City Daily Tribune:

"Davis, Charlie Thomas, 86 of Bay City, passed away June 28 at Bay Villa Nursing Home. Funeral services will be July 1 at 4 p.m. at the Church of the Nazarene, with Reverand Larry Classen. Burial Cedarvale Cemetery. Survivors: Emily Davis Ryman and Katherine Davis Gay of Bay City, Noriene Davis Holzer, Newberry, California, Sophie Davis Bauch, Lake Jackson, Hilma Davis Breen of Grand Rapids, Michigan, Margaret Davis Utley of Fort Worth, Bobbie Jean Davis McClendon, Clute, Ralph Stewart Davis of Bellaire, Morton Keefer Davis, Bay City, and Thomas Emory Davis of Angleton, 27 grandchildren, 31 great grandchildren. A resident of Bay City 72 years.

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Extracted from "The Davis Family Story" based on interviews by Ralph Stewart Davis, Jr.

Charles Thomas Davis was born July 31, 1886, in Cameron, Milam County, Texas. He died June 28, 1972, in Matagorda County (file 053669, Index to Death Records on Texas).

About 1960 or 1961, I interviewed Pawpaw Davis, using a tape recorder. Here is Charles Thomas Davis speaking:

"I was born at about six in the morning, Saturday, July 31, 1886, three miles west of Cameron in Milam County Texas. I was 17 years old when I left Cameron.

"My father, Robert Newton Davis, was born and raised on the Tombigbee River in Pickens County Alabama. He is buried in Bay City Cemetery in Matagorda County Texas. He had several sisters of which I know nothing. His brothers were 'Bud,' who was last seen sitting on a Civil War battlefield with a bullet through an artery; Jeff, who died in Pickens County Alabama; and Sampson Meakley, who settled in Runnels County near Winters or Ballinger. [PawPaw is obviously referring to William Sampson Davis -- Charlie had a brother named Sampson Meakley Davis and apparently had the names mixed up in this interview.]

"My mother was born December 19, 1859, as Susan Emily Gibson. She died May 22, 1894. I personally arranged for her tombstone."

On a later visit, we found Susan Emily Gibson Davis' grave. The tombstone reads:

In memory
of
Mrs. S. E. Davis
Wife of
R. N. Davis
Born
Dec 19 1859
Died
May 22 1894
A precious one from us had gone
a voice we love is
vacant in our home
which never can
be filled

The grave is in Corinth Cemetery, 3 miles south of Buckholts, Millam County, Texas between Elm Creek and Little River, both tributaries of the Rio de Brazos de Dios de Tejas.

Continuing Charlie's personal account:

"In 1902, five of us came to Bay City, Texas, in three covered wagons. The group included me, my brothers, John, Samp, and Walter, and my father. My two sisters and their husbands came also.

"The trip took about five days, with us arriving in November 1902, when the court house had just been moved from Matagorda to Bay City. We learned of the 'good country' around Bay City through a letter from a friend to my father. We lived in a tent during the winter of 1902-03 while working on the Southern Pacific Railroad from Wharton to Palacios, building 'dump,' or roadbed for the rails. While in the Bay City area I made friends with John Pierce and frequently saw his brother, Shanghai Pierce, the cattle baron.

"In the summer of 1903, I returned to Milam County Texas to chop some cotton on the farms of my friends. In November 1903 we went 18 miles north of Liberty to Batson Prairie oil field, where we used mules to dig tanks to hold crude oil. There were no metal tanks available for storage of oil. Once, three fellows came to camp and didn't have a place to stay so they slept near a gas well fire to stay warm. The fire went out and the three men died.

"Batson was a boom town of about 1500 population. There were no jails, and I saw women chained to trees in place of being thrown in jail. My brother, John caught smallpox in Batson Prairie, so we left for Bay City. John was vomiting from our wagon on the main street of Houston. A man rode up and said, 'Better keep your head in that wagon, boy, or the law will get you!' John was quarantined along with 17 other persons when we got to Bay City. They all survived, isolated in a tent.

"We left Bay City for Louisiana, the journey taking us 29 days by covered wagon. We arrived at our destination, Floyd, Louisiana, in West Caroll Parrish, December 25, 1903, and stayed almost two years. There were no bridges and few ferries. We forded the San Jacinto River near Cleveland, Texas, and we crossed the Sabine River at Many. Our heavy baggage was shipped.

"During our stay in Floyd I visited Oak Grove. There were many cypress swamps. We went to Louisiana because we had heard that it was good country for farming, but found we couldn't make a go of it. I returned to Bay City with my brother, 'Samp' (Sampson Meakley Davis). We made some 'cash' money and sent it for the others to return. We worked for the Hugh Bowers rice farm.

"I was once drawn on by a blacksmith for stealing his girl. I wasn't carrying a pistol so he couldn't shoot me fairly.

"On August 26, 1911, Judge I. Barbour performed the marriage ceremony for me and Virgil Minerva Tolleson in Matagorda County."

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The Bay City Daily Tribune ran the following article on Page 6,
Wednesday, April 19, 1950:

"63-year-old Charlie T. Davis could sit down and tell countless tales seldom heard about the early days of Matagorda County when the county was little more than a prairie.

"He well remembers the day he 'landed' here. It was Christmas Day
in 1902 when as a lad of 16, he came to Buckeye. But even before coming
here, he had heard tales of the county when he was growing up in Milam
County in Central Texas where he was born.

"His neighbors used to tell him of legendary giant-size mosquitoes
found in Matagorda County. Despite these uncomplimentary remarks, he came
and stayed here.

"In 1905-06 he worked for the county, helping to grade most of the
roads in the county. In those days, he says, the roads were actually little
more than trails and there was no bridge over the Colorado River at Bay
City. A ferry was used.

"Since 1923, however, he has been working off and on for the city.
He operated one of the first tractor engines owned by the city and helped
with street and bridge maintenance for a long time.

"At present he is the janitor at the fire station. Among his duties
is answering the telephone on fire calls. He remembers that some time ago,
someone called, giving an address on 6th street. Firemen were summoned and
out they went. As the last truck pulled out, the phoner rang again--it was
the same person calling and correcting the address. The house number was
the same, but it was on 10th street.

"Conscientious of his voting right, Mr. Davis never misses an
election. He cast his first vote in the county for Jessie Matthes for
county judge.

"'Old Jessie was really a fine man. He made a good judge,' he says.
He voted for the late Franklin Delano Roosevelt each of the four times the
president ran. He has been a democrat all his life.

"Mr. Davis was born into a family of 16 children and is the father
of 11 children. His parents are both dead now.

"He and the former Miss Virgil Minerva Tolleson of Lavaca County
were married on August 25, 1911. Eleven children were born to the couple
but one died at birth. The remaining children are alive.

"They are Mrs. Hilma Gladys Breen of Grand Rapids, Michigan, Mrs.
Margaret Leveal Hale of Bay City, Thomas E. Davis of Alvin, Mrs. Sophie
Wanda Bauch of Brooklyn, Mrs. Norene Holzer of Bay City, Morton Kiefer
Davis of Bay City, Ralph S. Davis of Houston, Mrs. Erma Catherine Sherry of
Clute, Mrs. John Ryman of Bay City, and Bobbie Jean Davis of Bay City." The
newspaper story was signed with the initials CGK.

Charlie's Father, Robert Newton Davis
Robert Newton Davis was born March 5, 1854, and he died December
12, 1933, according to Ralph S. Davis, his grandson. Ralph thinks Robert
Newton Davis came from Tennessee to Louisiana to Texas. He is buried in the
Cedarvale Cemetery at Bay City, Matagorda County.

Charlie's Mother, Emily Sue Gibson Davis
Emily Sue Gibson was born December 19, 1859, and she died May 22,
1894, according to Ralph S. Davis, her grandson. She is buried in the
Corinth Cemetery, Milam County, Texas

More About Charlie's Brothers and Sisters

Walter Lafayette Davis died under mysterious circumstances in a Bay
City boarding house. He was found with a bloody wet towel in his room.
Nothing ever came of the situation, and his brother Charles doesn't know if
it was murder. Walter was a bachelor who worked as a carpenter and plumber.
He was a gambler and drinker, according to brother Charles, who said he
died in his 40s.

Anna Bell Davis Shaw, sister of Charles Thomas Davis, had three
children: Robert Eart Shaw of Houston, Delma Lee [married name unknown],
and Thelma Forrest Layton of Houston, who worked for Coca Cola.

Charles Thomas Davis' twin brother, John Robert Davis, had children
John D. Davis and a daughter name unknown.

His brother, Sampson Meakley Davis, had one son, P. A. Davis, known
as "Snooks."

Charles' sister, Rosie, married Emmett Couch from Alabama. They
lived at Union Grove, Alabama, north of town toward the Tennessee River.

More About Charlie's Children

Marguerite Lavelle Davis was born April 10, 1930. She married Jerry
Utley (who was born January 5, 1932, I believe) on April 9, 1954. Their
children include Jerry Michael Utley, born September 9, 1956, and John
Davis (or David) Utley, born in November 1958.

Bobbie Jean Davis was born October 8, 1932. She married Edward
Glenn McClendon (who was born September 26, 1932, I believe) on February
19, 1950. Their children include Phyllis Minerva McClendon, born July 6,
1949, and Edward Glenn McClendon Jr., born October 26, 1952.

Ralph Stewart Davis was born March 28, 1916, in Bay City, Matagorda
County, Texas. He married Annie Stella Lipinski (who was born June 18,
1918) on August 18, 1935. Their children include Ralph Stewart Davis Jr.,
born October 13, 1937, in Matagorda County (file 86918, Index to Birth
Records), and Charles Stanley Davis, born December 11, 1939, in Harris
County (file 109520, Index to Birth Records).
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 		Charlie Thomas Davis
 
20 According to Charles Thomas Davis, James Davis -- he called him "Bud" -- was last seen sitting on a Civil War battlefield with a bullet through an artery. James Davis was very likely killed during the Civil War. He was probably a Private in the Pickens County Regiment. James L. Davis
 
21 Lillie L. Davis is buried in the Corinth Cemetery, Milam County, Texas. On her tombstone is the following inscription:

She's gone to that bright land of love,
Where death and sickness never come --
Where all is bliss with those above --
Who dwell within that peaceful home. 		Lillie L. Davis
 
22 More research is needed on Matilda Davis. In the 1870 Federal Census for Pickens County, Alex and Jennie Moorhead are shown living with the Willis D. Davis family. Jennie Moorhead is 24 years old in the 1870 Census. It is curious that Matilda Davis is shown to be 14 years old in the 1860 Census and Jennie Moorhead is 24 years old in the 1870 Census. Perhaps Matilda and Jennie are one in the same person. If so, then perhaps Matilda's name was Virginia Matilda Davis or Matilda Virginia Davis and Alex Moorhead is her husband. And if this is so, then we can tie-in the Moorheads as a part of our extended family. Matilda Davis
 
23 Morton Keefer Davis served in the Civilian Conservation Corps at Camp Gallinas, New Mexico circa 1933/1934. Camp Gallinas was located between Corona, New Mexico and Carrizozo, New Mexico on what is now US54. While in the CCC, he also did some work in the Devils Canyon project near Glencoe, New Mexico (between San Patricio, New Mexico and Hondo, New Mexico). In his words:

"The camps were run based on military order and discipline. An Army Captain commanded the camp and an Army Lieutenant (Medical Corps) was the Camp Doctor. A US Forestry Agent supervised the work. We wore surplus Army wools as our uniforms, slept on Army style cots with Army wool blankets, ate in an Army-style mess hall and stood roll calls just like the Army. We built roads, telephone lines, park trails and just about anything else they wanted us to do. We earned $30 per month. Under the program, $25 was sent home to the folks and we were allowed to keep $5. That doesn't sound like a lot but you have to remember that a bag of Bull Durham tobacco only cost about three cents and would last about a week to two weeks. The program was for the poor and we Davises qualified. We served one year in the camp and then returned home."

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Morton Keefer Davis and Mary Elizabeth Hunnicutt met in Boling, Texas. About 1936, after he returned from CCC service, Keefer took a job running the projector at J. G. Long's Motion Picture Theater in Boling, Texas. Since the theater job was a night job, Keefer was able to get a day job as well and he worked installing, repairing and maintaining the telephone lines in Boling. About 1937, while working his local telephone company job, he met Mary Elizabeth Hunnicutt who was working as a relief operator. Mary's folks lived in Boling because Robin Winfield Hunnicutt was working at Duvall Sulfur Company's operations in the area. Mary was still in high school at the time. About 1938, the Hunnicutts moved to Rosenberg -- Duvall had closed its operations near Boling and opened a new site at Orchard near Rosenberg, Texas. Mary completed her high school education at Rosenberg. During the year, Keefer and Mary continued to date. In 1939, Keefer became the Assistant Manager of J. G. Long's theater in Port Lavaca, Texas. And, in December 1939, gave up the civilian life and enlisted in the Army. Keefer and Mary continued to correspond with each other while he was in Hawaii. In the process of their letter writing, Keefer proposed and Mary accepted his proposal of marriage. Keefer was due to return to the States in December 1941; however, events took a turn against that plan.

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Morton Keefer Davis enlisted in the Army on 26 December 1939 in Houston, Texas. His War Department AGO Form 53-55 shows his Permanent Address at time of enlistment as 1513 Avenue I, Bay City, Texas.

His Army Serial Number: 6958605.

He was discharged as a Corporal, Quartermaster Corps Training Co. 16 on 19 September 1945. His place of separation was Fitzsimons General Hospital, Denver Colorado.

While in the Army, his Military Occupational Specialty (MOS) was: Power Lineman 165. Battles and Campaigns Credit: Central Pacific Campaign.

His WD AGO Form 100 describes his MOS as: LINEMAN, POWER: Erected and repaired high voltage power lines. Layed and made repairs on underground cables. Did this work in combat areas.

His decorations and citations: Good Conduct Ribbon; American Defense Ribbon; Asiatic-Pacific Theatre Ribbon with 1 Bronze Star; World War II Ribbon.

His War Department AGO Form 100 shows that his highest civilian education grade of completion was the 6th Grade -- last year of attendance was 1933 in Bay City, Texas.

According to his WD AGO Form 100, his civilian occupation prior to entering the Army was: Motion Picture Projectionist (code 5-55.010). He operated motion picture machine in a large theater. Made repairs on machine and sound equipment. Also made electrical repairs around the theater. His record also indicates that he worked in the motion picture theater for 3 and 1/2 years prior to enlistment. He worked for J. G. Long of Bay City, Texas who had theaters in Boling, Bay City, Port Lavaca and other locations.

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The following is an excerpt of an article published in the Victoria Advocate, Sunday, December 1, 1991:

Memories of Pearl Harbor
Marsha Moulder
Advocate Staff Writer

Page 12A

Loud Explosions

Morton Keefer Davis, a member of the U.S. Army, realized the gravity of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor when he ran to the outside of his barracks and observed bullets from a Japanese plane hitting the ground within three feet of two women and a child.

The women and child had run out of the noncommissioned officers quarters about 50 feet from Davis' barracks.

Davis, who was assigned to Schofield Barracks in Oahu, had been asleep when the Japanese struck. He was awakened by loud explosions, which turned out to be the Japanese bombing Wheeler Field, an Army Air Force installation about a half mile from Davis' barracks.

"The event was over so fast we had no opportunity to effectively retaliate," Davis said. "We immediately manned our post of duty, expecting other attacks and not knowing if there would be landing forces following. The next few days and weeks were filled with frantic activities. We did get our act together, and history has recorded the results."

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After more than three years in the South Pacific in World War II, Keefer earned and took a 30 days furlough. He and Mary agreed that they would get married while he was home. He arrived back in the states in January 1944. Ralph Stewart Davis, his older brother, picked him up in Houston and they stopped by the Hunnicutt's house in Rosenberg to pick up Mary on the way to Bay City. However, neither Robin Winfield nor Thelma Irene Hunnicutt knew where Mary was. Mary had been working at a hospital but had quit her job to get married. She'd already left to go to Bay City. Keefer and Ralph drove on to Bay City; but, Mary wasn't there. After a few hours of waiting, they got a phone call from her. Her bus had broken down and she was stranded in West Columbia, Texas. Keefer and Ralph drove over to West Columbia and brought her back to Bay City. Keefer and Mary were married by Reverend Ernest Deitch at the First Presbyterian Church in Bay City, Texas on 24 January 1944.

Keefer had to return to duty in the South Pacific and the departure depot was an Army installation on the waterfront in Oakland, California. They had facilities that allowed married soldiers to have their wives with them while awaiting transport; so, Mary went out to spend his last few days stateside with him.

In 1945 he was rotated back to Fort Warren, Wyoming. Mary went up to Fort Warren to join him while he was awaiting discharge. Keefer had a furlough coming and while on furlough he hired-on with a local electrical contractor in the area. While working for this company, he fell and suffered some serious injuries which delayed his discharge.

Keefer was discharged from the Army at Fitzsimons General Hospital, Denver, Colorado, on 19 September 1945.

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Keefer and Mary returned to Bay City, Texas. As a young man, Keefer frequently had to walk up Avenue G into town. Almost every day, he would walk past an electrical company -- Wolfarth and Bowman. He always had it in his mind that some day he would work for them. After returning to Bay City in October 1945, Keefer got a job working for Wolfarth and Bowman Electrical Company (Joe B. Wolfarth and Sydney Bowman). He started out working with Walter Lowe. About 1952, Carl Oates came to work for Wolfarth and Bowman and he and Keefer hit it off. In 1953, they pooled their talents and resources and started Oates Electric Company (later to be known as Oates-Keefer Electric Company).

Working as an electrician, Keefer eventually earned a Master Electrician License. He and Carl Oates ran their electrical contracting company until 1978 when Keefer sold his interest in the business to Carl Oates (more than 26 years in the business). Beginning in 1978, Keefer worked for the City of Bay City beginning as the City Electrical Inspector and later as the City Building Official. While working for the City of Bay City, Keefer met and married Carolyn Ryman on 11 May 1986. Keefer and Carolyn retired together from the City of Bay City on 31 July 1993.

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Obituary from the 6 November 2001 Daily Tribune:

DAVIS

Morton Keefer Davis, a long time Bay City businessman and former building official with the City of Bay City died Nov. 2 at Matagorda General Hospital following a short illness. He was born on December 19, 1919 in Blessing, Texas to parents Charlie Thomas and Virgil Minerva Tolleson Davis.

He grew up in the Blessing and Bay City area and in the early 1930s, left home to work in the Civilian Conservation Corps in New Mexico. Around 1936, he returned home and worked as a movie projectionist and telephone line repair-man in the Boling and Bay City areas.

In 1939 he decided to join the Army and was stationed at Schofield Barracks in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. He was serving there when the Japanese attacked on December 7, 1941 and he continued his military service until 1945. In 1944, while on furlough, he married Mary Elizabeth Hunnicutt of Rosenberg, Texas, whom he had met before the war. As part of his military duty he learned to work on and service electrical power lines.

After the war, he returned to Bay City and went to work for Wolfarth and Bowman Electrical Company. There he met Carl Oates and in 1953 the two of them started Oates--Keefer Electric Company which served the people of Matagorda County with electrical service and repairs until he sold his share of the business following the death of Mary in 1977.

He was active in community ser-vices including membership in the local VFW Post and as an educator, teaching electrical services with the community education system. Being a master electrician, in 1978 he took the job of electrical inspector for the City of Bay City and eventually became the chief building official for the city. While working at city hall, he met the former Carolyn Ryman and they were married on May11, 1987.

He is survived by his wife Carolyn of Bay City; son and daughter-in-law, LTC (RET) Thomas and Otti Davis of Wimberley, Texas; daughter Barbara Hambright of Marshall, Texas; brother and sister-in-law Thomas and Mildred Davis of Danbury, Texas; sister and brother-in-law Hilma and Bob Breen of Grand Rapids, Michigan; sisters Marguerite Utley of South Lake, Texas, Sophie Bauch of Brazoria, Texas, and Bobbie Jean Phillips of Freeport, Texas; and grandson and his wife, Stuart and Jennie Davis of Ann Arbor, Michigan. He is also sur-vived by his mother-in-law, Pearl Ryman and brother-in-law Lloyd Ryman.

He was preceded in death by his first wife, Mary, and a daughter, Bonnie K. Davis. Funeral services were Monday, Nov. 5 at 10 a.m. at the Bay City Funeral Home Chapel with Deacon Guadalupe Rodriguez officiating. Interment with military honors followed at Roselawn Memorial Park in Van Vleck, Texas.

Pallbearers were Charles Breen, Russell Breen, Kenneth Davis, Stewart Davis, Javier Rodriguez, Duane Ryman, Johnny Ryman, and James Smith.

Services were under the direction of Bay City Funeral Home. 		Morton Keefer Davis
 
24 Ralph Stewart Davis served in the Civilian Conservation Corps at Jemez Springs, New Mexico (west of Santa Fe, New Mexico) circa 1932/1933

Ralph Davis was a leader in the Texas food processing industry. For
25 years, he was manager of the ice cream plant for the J. Weingarten
supermarket chain in Houston. He was responsible for designing and running
the food processing plant to serve millions of Texans who shopped at nearly
150 supermarkets.

Earlier, he managed processing plants for dairy products at San
Jacinto Creamery in Goose Creek (now Baytown) and at Phenix Dairy in
Houston.

During World War II, Ralph ran a pilot gasoline plant for Humble
Oil and Refining Company, making 100-octane airplane fuel for the war
effort.

After he retired from J. Weingarten supermarkets in 1973, he was a
real estate broker in the Giddings area near the farm he and Ann owned at
Dime Box.

Ralph and Ann moved to Madisonville in May of 1987. Ralph and Ann
were married August 18, 1936. Had Ralph lived six more days, he and Ann
would have celebrated 52 years of marriage.

They have two sons, Stewart Davis of Austin, and Charles Davis of
Bowling Green, Kentucky, and eight grandchildren. They are:

Teresa (Tammy) Milliff of Bay City, Texas,
Charles Davis Jr. of (town unknown) Alabama,
Kenneth Davis of Houston, Texas,
Julie Hicks of College Station, Texas
Darrell Davis of San Francisco, California,
Matthew Davis of Denton, Texas,
Diane Davis of Denton, Texas, and
Kathleen Davis of New Orleans, Louisiana.

At the time of Ralph's death, he and Ann had two
great-grandchildren, Jason and Brandon Milliff of Bay City.

Ralph's surviving brothers and sisters are:
Emily Alice Ryman of Bay City,
Martin Keefer Davis of Bay City,
Noriene Holzer of Twenty Nine Palms, California,
Thomas Davis of Danbury,
Sophie Bausch of Freeport,
Hilma Breen of Kalamazoo, Michigan,
Margaret Utley of Fort Worth, and
Bobby Jean Phillips of Clute.

Ralph was born in Blessing, Texas, on March 28, 1916. He died at
3:19 a.m. Friday, August 12, 1988. God rest his soul and give strength and
courage to his beloved wife, Ann, and his family.

 		Ralph Stewart Davis
 
25 Stewart Davis [Ralph Stewart Davis, Jr.]

Stewart Davis, 67, former newspaperman and a communicator, died January 26, 2005, of lung cancer after a seven-month illness.

Stewart Davis was in the communications industry for 40 years as a newspaperman and a communications and public affairs director at a state agency. He was chief writer and editor at the Texas Department of Protective and Regulatory Services. Before that, he was for 12 years media director at the Texas Department of Human Services, where award-winning communications products were created. His expertise there included writing and editing brochures, annual reports, and virtually every other kind of printed paper product. On the video side, award-winning work told clients and the general public about the programs and services of an agency that touches the lives of one out of every seven Texans.

Prior to public service, Davis was in the newspaper industry for 21 years, including 14 years for The Dallas Morning News Austin Bureau in the State Capitol at Austin and seven years for the Houston Chronicle, including three years at the Capitol Bureau. At the Dallas Morning News, he rose to be chief of the Austin Bureau based on experience of covering Texas state government. His news clips ranged from remote points on the Texas political campaign trail to the tumultuous climaxes of legislative sessions. He covered the executive, legislative and judicial branches, including the Texas Supreme Court and myriad state agencies.

Not content with government news only, his reporting extended to news-worthy events in Austin's cultural life and to science and human behavior stories from the University of Texas at Austin campus where he was educated from 1956 to 1960.

After attending the university, he became a reporter for the Houston Chronicle in 1960. He covered virtually every "beat" in the metropolitan area, including city hail, federal courthouse, police, and general assignments. Promotion to the capitol bureau gave him a first taste of politics and government, as well as the realities of the civil rights movement and other social tides of the 1960's. This experience served him later when the Capitol became the focus of anti-war sentiments over Vietnam.

For 21 years, Davis reported on the political process statewide, including candidates running for congressional, legislative and statewide races. He covered the aftermath of the assassination of President John F. Kennedy and the administration of Texas Gov. John Connally, who was wounded in the assassination, as well as the subsequent election of Lyndon B. Johnson. Johnson's Texas White House was a familiar story for Davis, who prepared stories and photo cutlines on visits by international leaders to ranch-style socials at the LBJ Ranch. Davis covered the administrations of Governors Connally, Preston Smith, Dolph Briscoe, and William P. Clements Jr., as well as the senatorial leadership of Lieutenant Governors John Ben Ramsey, Preston Smith, Ben Barnes, and William P. Hobby, who held what most political observers believe is the most powerful office in the state. He was a friend, despite frequent adversarial relations, with dozens of powerful and legendary legislators, including State Senators A. M. Aikin Jr. of Paris, Dorsey B. Hardeman of San Angelo, William T. Moore of Bryan, and George Parkhouse of Dallas, and State Representatives William Heatley of Paducah and "Jumbo" Ben Atwell of Dallas.

Davis covered the events, including exclusive stories, that led to the political demise of House Speaker Gus Mutscher due to the so-called "Sharpstown" scandal, and he thrived on the antics of then-Comptroller Bob Bullock, who later became lieutenant governor. Davis also covered the so-called "Dirty 30" reform session of the Texas House in 1970 following the Sharpstown scandal, and he reported on the "Killer Bees," senators who paralyzed the Texas Senate by hiding out and denying the legislative body of a quorum to do business.

Davis covered the Civil Rights Movement from the early 1960's when blacks integrated movie theaters in Houston through the massive marches on the State Capitol leading to the enactment of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and subsequent legislation designed to guarantee equality in American society. He also observed and reported on marches by thousands of Texans protesting United States involvement in the Vietnam war.

During his newspaper years, Davis won a number of awards and honors, including recognition by his peers who selected him as president of the Austin Chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists in a year that the chapter won national acclaim as the best organization of its size in the nation. He was in on the inception of the Stuart Long Memorial Scholarship Fund and the DeWitt C. Reddick Memorial First Amendment Fund, both financed in part by the popular annual Gridiron Show which he helped launch.

He won Associated Press and United Press International managing editors awards, as well as the prestigious Headliners Award, for coverage in the late 1970s of the so-called "rent-a-bank" scandal that was a forerunner of the collapse of the banking and savings and loan industries in the 1980's. News stories prompted congressional hearings in Texas and Washington, and some of the perpetrators went to prison. At least one target of the newspaper probe escaped federal prosecution for ten years before he finally went behind bars.

Davis also won an American Trucking Association award for a series on highway safety and the coveted Dallas Press Club "Addy" award for his coverage of the Memorial Day Flood that swept through downtown Austin in 1981.

Davis credited his mentors for much of his success in communications. They included Bo Byers, former Austin Bureau Chief of the Houston Chronicle and William S. "Bill" Woods, former city editor of the Austin American-Statesman and information officer for the Texas Department of
Human Services.

Ralph Stewart Davis Jr. was born October 13, 1937, in Bay City, Texas. He was the son of Ralph Stewart Davis and Annie Stella Lipinski Davis. He is predeceased by his father. Stewart Davis is survived by his wife, Debris Peck Hastings, Austin; children, Darrell Scott Davis and his wife, Lily Chien-Davis, Berkeley, California; Matthew Stewart Davis, Galveston; Diane Sheryl Davis Flowers and her husband, James Flowers, Denton; and Kathleen Sharon Davis, New Orleans; Debris' children Mela Deane Rhodes, Austin; Robert Ware Hastings and his wife, Catherine Hastings, Kempner; Loxy Lorraine Passmore and her husband, Bill Passmore, Austin; mother, Annie Stella Lipinski Davis, Bay City; brother, Charles Stanley Davis, Rockfleld, Kentucky; and grandchildren Lorelei Davis Trammell and Xen Sebastian Davis, Berkeley, California; Coleen Sofia Flowers and Hannah Elizabeth Flowers, Denton; William Colgin IV, Houston; Tinaya White, Navasota; William, James, Robert Louis and Christopher Hastings, Kempner.

In lieu of flowers, please make a memorial contribution to the Salvation Army, which has been Stewart's personal choice of charity, or to your choice.

Graveside services and burial will be at 11:00 a.m. on January 28,2005, Live Oak Cemetery, Manchaca, Texas.

Arrangements by Wilke-Clay-Fish Funeral Home, 2620 5. Congress, Austin, Texas (512) 442-1446.
 		Ralph Stewart Davis, Jr.
 
26 Per the 1880 Census for Noxubee County Mississippi, Enumeration District 34, Sheet 37, Line 29, R.N. Davis 25, b: in AL, reports that his father was born in North Carolina and his mother was born in South Carolina. Further, he lists his wife as Susan (vs Emily Sue) born in Mississippi (vs Pickens County Alabama) age 21, and he lists his first daughter, Anna Belle, age 1, born in Mississippi -- we assume Noxubee County Mississippi.

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Per the 1900 Census for Milam County Texas, Enumeration District 81, Sheet 15, Line 14: Robert N. Davis is 45 years old. His wife, Emily Sue "Susan" is not listed -- she passed in May 1894. Again, Robert Newton lists his father is born in North Carolina and his mother is born in South Carolina. All his living children are with him on the 1900 Census.

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27 1. Sam Davis (likely Walter's brother, Sampson Meakly Davis) furnished information to officials for the death certificate.

2. Walter LaFayette Davis died on 1 November 1942. Previous family research had indicated he died on 7 November 1942. The Texas Department of Health Standard Certificate of Death number 50449, filed 2 November 1942, shows the date of death to be 1 November 1942.

3. The death certificate shows that Walter's primary cause of death was Acute Coronary Occlusion (Heart Attack). Walter had suffered from C-V Hypertension and Myocarditis for 5 to 10 years prior to his death.

There is perhaps a clue about Walter's mother, Susan Emily Gibson Davis, in Walter's death certificate. Sam Davis reported that Walter's mother was Emma Gibson and that she was born in Mississippi. Previous research had suggested that Susan Emily Gibson was born in Pickens County, Alabama. 		Walter Lafayette Davis
 
28 Information from Carla D. Woolley:

William Sampson Davis was a farmer and also managed the Louis J. Wortham Ranch in Milam County, Texas before buying land east of Winters, Texas.

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Extracts from newspaper article, Poe's Corner:

The Nichols-Davis Merger

All roads led to Texas for two families who came from different states and at different times, but ended up in Runnels County where many of their descendants live today.

W. T. Nichols [Washington Taylor Nichols] moved his family from Selma, Alabama to Buckholt, nine miles west of Cameron, in Milam County. They lived neighbors to the W. S. Davis [William Sampson Davis] family for a number of years and became very good friends. In fact, they formed a merger for three of the Davis children married three of the Nichols family.

Most of their children were married when Mr. Nichols, a trader, moved to Runnels County in 1900 and settled on four sections of land he had bought ten miles south of Ballinger. Davis, who farmed and also managed the Louis J. Wortham Ranch, got tired of being flooded out and followed suit by buying and moving to a farm East of Winters where Don Davis now lives.

Raymond Knight, a Nichols grandson, said that his grandparents came to Texas from Alabama when their oldest child, Alice, was a baby. She was born in 1869 and later was married to John Russell. The Russells were living in Runnels when the Nichols came. The next child was a son named Jack, born in 1873. He was the first to marry a Davis and her name was Mamie. Since the Nichols had five daughters and only one son, it is safe to assume that Jack and his wife moved to Runnels with his parents as grandsons say that grandpa turned the farming over to Uncle Jack. A son-in-law, J. P. Knight, also helped farm the land until he moved to Winters in 1916.

Jack and Mamie continued living in the Bethel Community until their deaths -- his in 1944 and hers in 1959. They are buried in the old Runnels Cemetery. Willie Lois (Young) Nichols, widon of their son, Ted, says that Ted is buried on the lot with his parents. Other children were sons, Dalley, Troy and Jodie -- and daughters, Mattie Fay, Clairette, and Gena Mathis -- only the three daughters are living.
 		William Sampson Davis
 
29 Willis Clifton Davis Died Wednesday, Funeral Friday

Willis Clifton Davis, 71, died at 7 a.m. Wednesday, February 28, in St. John Hospital in San Angelo. He had been ill for four months. Funeral services will be held at 3 p.m. today (Friday) from the First Baptist Church with the Rev. Harry Grantz, pastor, and the Rev. Chester Wilkerson, retired Methodist minister, officiating. Burial will be in Northview Cemetery under direction of Spill Funeral Home.

Willis Clifton Davis was born April 3, 1896, in Milam County, Texas, the son of Mr. and Mrs. Willis J. Davis. At the age of six he moved with his family to a farm in the Bethel community in Runnels County, where he lived until he joined the Army in 1917 during World War I. Following his discharge from the Army, he moved to the Dale Community east of Winters where he lived until 1950 when he moved to Winters.

He was married to Viola Ratliff on December 23, 1920. She died in 1933. In 1940 he was married to Lettie Cottrell in Winters. He was a member of the First Baptist Church and of the American Legion.

Survivors are his wife; one son, Willis Davis of Winters; two daughters, Mrs. Herbert (Joyce) Skinner of Austin and Mrs. Leon (Venita) Worthington of Fresno, California; six grandchildren and one great-grandchild; three sisters, Mrs. C. O. (Lady) Rodgers and Mrs. Lloyd (Alice) Compton, both of Winters, and Mrs. Ruby Burns of San Angelo; one brother, Jack Davis of Abilene.

Article from The Winters Enterprise - Friday, March 1, 1968
Clifton was the son of Willis Jefferson Davis and Ludie Amanda Nichols. He was also proceeded in death by a daughter, Doris Irene Davis. She died in 1935. 		Willis Clifton Davis
 
30 We had just about given up finding the parents of Robert Newton Davis. Earlier leads had suggested that Robert Newton Davis was born in Huntsville, Madison County, Alabama. We searched every Census available to us for Madison County, Alabama and could not find him or his family. Then, we caught a break. Uncle Tommy (Thomas Emory Davis) sent us a copy of an interview that Sonny Davis (Ralph Stewart Davis, Jr.) had done with PawPaw (Charlie Thomas Davis) back in the 1950's. An extract of the interview can be found under the information on Charlie Thomas Davis. That interview gave us several clues that helped us find the Willis D. Davis family. In the interview, PawPaw told us:

1. Robert Newton Davis was born and raised on the Tombigbee River in Pickens County, Alabama.

2. He had several sisters.

3. He had several brothers: "Bud," Jeff, and Sampson Meakley (further information showed us that Sampson Meakley was actually William Sampson Davis).

With these clues in hand, we searched the available Censuses for Pickens County and found the Willis D. Davis family. Here's what the various Census reports show.

1850 Federal Census for Pickens County Alabama, Southern District (Only the basic information is shown here. See the actual Census Report for more.)

House Family Last First
Number Number Name Name Age Sex Occupation Birthplace
612 636 Davis Willis D. 31 M Farmer NC
612 636 Davis Mary 33 F SC
612 636 Davis James 6 M AL
612 636 Davis Matilda 5 F AL
612 636 Davis Frances 3 F AL
612 636 Davis William 1 M AL
613 637 Noland S. 68 M Farmer SC
613 637 Noland Edy 64 F SC
613 637 Noland Edy 32 F SC
613 637 Noland Jane 29 F SC

Note: We had wondered about the connection between the Davises and the Nolands. Our experience in researching several family lines has shown us that back then, neighbors were critical to each others success and survival. We often find the children of neighboring families marrying into each others families. And in this case, we caught another break and received information from Carla Sue Davis Woolley showing that Mary Davis' parents were Samuel and Edith Noland.

1860 Federal Census for Pickens County Alabama, Southern District (Only the basic information is shown here. See the actual Census Report for more.)

House Family Last First
Number Number Name Name Age Sex Occupation Birthplace

186 174 Davis Willis 42 M Farmer NC
186 174 Davis Mary 44 F SC
186 174 Davis James 15 M AL
186 174 Davis Matilda 14 F AL
186 174 Davis Eda F. 12 F AL
186 174 Davis William S. 10 M AL
186 174 Davis Willis Jr. 8 M AL
186 174 Davis Robert N. 6 M AL
186 174 Davis Mary E. 4 F AL

1870 Federal Census for Pickens County Alabama, Yorkville Precinct (Only the basic information is shown here. See the actual Census Report for more.)

House Family Last First
Number Number Name Name Age Sex Occupation Birthplace

164 164 Davis Willie 52 M Farmer North Car.
164 164 Davis Mary 54 F Keeping House South Car.
164 164 Davis Frances 22 F At Home Ala
164 164 Davis Sampson 20 M Farm Hand Ala
164 164 Davis Jeff 18 M Farm Hand Ala
164 164 Davis Robert 16 M Farm Hand Ala
164 164 Davis Mary 13 F At Home Ala
164 164 Moorhead Alex 26 M Mechanic Ala
164 164 Moorhead Jennie 24 F At Home Ala

Note: Willis D. Davis is listed as Willie D. Davis in the 1870 Census. Willis? Willie? Perhaps these names were actually nicknames or endearments for his real name which may have been William D. Davis. Riddle family researchers believe his name was William D. Davis.

Note: We have not yet verified who Alex and Jennie Moorhead are. We believe that Jennie Moorhead of the 1870 Census is the same person as Matilda Davis of the 1860 Census. The age is certainly correct and it is important to note that the next door neighbors at House Number 163 and family number 163 were named Moorhead. Family number 163 lists the following:

House Family Last First
Number Number Name Name Age Sex Occupation Birthplace

163 163 Moorhead Alex 70 M Farming South Car.
163 163 Moorhead Mary 57 F Keeping House Tennessee
163 163 Moorhead Annie 33 F At Home Ala
163 163 Moorhead Bitsy 16 F At Home Ala
163 163 Moorhead Missie 14 F At School Ala

The Willis D. Davis family is not listed in the 1880 Census for Pickens County. Given that both Robert Newton Davis and his older brother, William Sampson Davis are found in Noxubee County, Mississippi, it may be that Willis and Mary moved with the boys to Noxubee County; or, they may have moved on to Texas ahead of their boys' families. We have found an index listing for a Willis Davis in the 1880 Federal Census for Robertson County, Texas (just east of Milam County, Texas where Robert Newton Davis and William Sampson Davis later moved. 		Willis D. Davis
 
31 Name Relation Marital Status Gender Race Age Birthplace Occupation Father's Birthplace Mother's Birthplace
Abe DEMO Self M Male W 35 VT Farmer VT CAN
Magaret DEMO Wife M Female W 25 VT Keeps House IRE IRE
John DEMO Son S Male W 1 IRE VT VT  		Abraham Demo
 
32 Records state that Peter's wife was a French-Canadian and was born in 1793. Her name was Julia. Peter was born in 1747 and died in 1859.

Tradition says that Peter's wife was an Indian. There is some evidence that she was:

1. The physical characteristics and features of several descendants in both first and second generations.

2. There is no record of Peter's wife's death.

3. There is no grave beside Peter where he and his son Marcel are buried.

4. It was Indian custom for a woman to return to her tribe if her husband died.

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"Roving Reporter"

Del Forbey - New York Paper

May 12, 1939

There is a bleached headstone in Sand Hill, Quaint old cemetery, between Moira and Dickenson Center that marks the resting place of Peter DEMO - a man whose life was remarkable, for its adventure back is rugged pioneering era of when adventure was a part of the existence of practically every man.

It is possible that Mr. DEMO's life was the longest of any North Country man's stay on earth. He lived to be 112. It is significant that Peter DEMO's death occurred in 1859, the centennial anniversary of the fall of Quebec. For Peter DEMO marched as a child with Marquis de Montcalm and beat his drum bravely at the lead of the French columns in the stirring battle of the plains of Abraham.

In those lusty and valiant years boys grew quickly to manhood and Peter DEMO was a sturdy youth of 12 when he became a drummer boy for Montcalm. The battle occurred the night of April 13, 1759, when the English force under James Wolfe scaled the heights to attack the city surrounding the French and drove them from their position. Both Montcalm and Wolfe were slain and the French broke without a leader, and many of them fled into the wilderness after the fall of the fortress. Among these was Peter DEMO. He grew to manhood among the abnaki Indians and became a courier du bois, one of that sturdy clan of woodsmen who roamed the St. Lawrence valley in the earliest years of its settlement. These men were a picturesque element of the wilderness. They were schooled in the customs and language of the Indians and were as much at home in the forest as any savage. Years later, Peter DEMO abandoned his solitary life when he wandered into a little settlement in Vermont where he married and took up the more prosaic existence of a farmer. The trend of the population was westward in those years and Peter DEMO followed the lands who venture across Lake Champlain and into New York State. It was near Dickinson Center in the section then known as the French Chapel district that he finally settled and reared his family. The French Chapel Road now little used is almost covered today with sod and the untrimmed brush has grown high on both sides of the thoroughfare where Peter DEMO perhaps often passed on his way to the village of the French Chapel itself, only ruins remain. Fire destroyed the building years ago but the foundation stones nearly obscured by vegetation till mark the spot where the chapel stood on the crest of a hill. The St. Lawrence is visible from that eminence and it is likely that Peter DEMO may have tarried often on the summit to view in the distance the broad valley where he had roamed as a youth. Many who pass Sand Hill graveyard today pause to observe the weather-whitened headstone with its still legible inscription, but there are few of the aware of the life of the man who lies buried beneath it. Much of the story of Peter DEMO's eventful years, it seems have been buried in the graves of those who once lived through their history. 		Peter Demo
 
33 Name Relation Marital Status Gender Race Age Birthplace Occupation Father's Birthplace Mother's Birthplace
John FERGUSON Self M Male W 45 CAN Farmer SCOT C
Belle FERGUSON Wife M Female W 27 NOR Keeping House NOR NOR
Durand FERGUSON Son S Male W 9 IA At School CAN N
Burt FERGUSON Son S Male W 7 IA At School CAN NOR
Robert FERGUSON Son S Male W 5 IA At School CAN N
Raymond FERGUSON Son S Male W 2 IA At Home CAN N
Carrie RASMUS MotherL W Female W 59 NOR NOR NOR
Bell RASMUS SisterL S Female W 22 IA House Keeper NOR NOR  		John Ferguson, Jr.
 
34 Believed to be of Scottish descent. Robert Ferguson
 
35 Per information from Rebecca Sullivan Stout: Gary Finch was raised by Stella and Homer Phillips. Gary Finch
 
36 Clarissa Gist was the widow of Girren Gist Clarissa (Buzan) Gist
 
37 Horace Green Gist married Elsie Meda (Wilson) Gist, widow of Willard Gist. Elsie Meda (Wilson) Gist
 
38 Green Gist was a farmer near Latham, Missouri, where he died at age 29. Posthumous twin girls Minnie and Mina were born 21 July 1880. Green's widow, Henrietta Amanda (Scott) Gist, with her four children, lived for a time with her brother, then a widower, near Sherman, Texas. Talbot Thomas Scott and Amanda (Fulks) Scott, Henrietta's parents, also went from Latham, Missouri to Sherman, Texas to live, and were buried there. Henrietta Gist later remarried (2) William Heigler of Gainsville, Texas, where she died. There were no children from this second marriage. Green White Gist
 
39 Name Relation Marital Status Gender Race Age Birthplace Occupation Father's Birthplace Mother's Birthplace
John GIST Self M Male W 40 MO Farming KY KY
Abigail GIST Wife M Female W 38 MO Keeping House KY KY
Sarah GIST Dau S Female W 19 MO MO MO
Willard GIST Son S Male W 17 MO Works On Fa
Alfred GIST Son S Male W 16 MO At School MO MO  		John Gist
 
40 During the war with the Creek Indians in Tennessee, John Gist served six months as a private in the Army commanded by General Grant. For his services, he received a warrant for 40 acres of land, which he sold to Benjamin Gist in the state of Missouri. On June 14, 1855, he applied for 120 acres more in Cook County, Texas. (Bounty Lands Wt 90.154, National Archives, Washington, DC) John Gist
 
41 From Taylor Bros. Funeral Home Website:

Max Stewart Gist, 76, of Bay City, passed away January 4, 2008, at Matagorda General Hospital following a brief illness. He was born June 6, 1931 in California, Missouri to the late Howard E. and Mary Elizabeth Robertson Gist and attended school in Knob Noster, Missouri, graduating in 1949.

Max joined the U.S. Army in 1952, serving with the 33rd Field Artillery, stationed at Kelly Barracks in Bamberg, Germany. While there, Max met and married the love of his life, Magdalena “Leni” Schmitt, and they returned to the states, in 1955. Leni preceded Max in death.

Max was a resident of Bay City since 1956, and worked for Phillips Petroleum from 1955 until his retirement in 1976 when he went to work at Bay Equipment Company here in Bay City. Together, Max and Leni co-owned Bay Equipment Company, and Max served as President of the company and Manager of the Parts Department until his retirement in 1995.

Max was a lifetime member of the Matagorda County Birding Nature Center and was also a lifetime member of the Friends of the Library in Bay City. Max loved sports and was active for many years in Bay City youth programs and coached Little League Baseball, and later coached Pony League Baseball. He was a member and one-time President of the Bay City Gun Club. This past year, Max celebrated his 40th year as a mason and was a member of Lodge AF and AM 865.

He is survived by his daughter, Otti Gist Davis & husband Thomas of Wimberley, TX and his grandson, Stuart M. Davis & wife Jennie of Ann Arbor, Michigan.

The family will receive friends from 6 PM to 8 PM Tuesday, January 8th, at Taylor Bros. Funeral Home. Graveside funeral service will be held at 4:00 PM Wednesday, January 9, 2008, at Roselawn Memorial Park in Van Vleck with Rev. Tom Morgan officiating.

In lieu of flowers, the family request that memorials be made to the Matagorda County Birding Nature Center, PO Box 2212, Bay City, TX 77404-2212.

Arrangements are with Taylor Bros. Funeral Home, Bay City, TX.
 		Max Stewart Gist
 
42 At least one living individual is linked to this note - Details withheld. Living
 
43 At least one living individual is linked to this note - Details withheld. Living
 
44 On the 1910 Census for Runnels County, Enumeration District 213, Sheet 7A, lines 24 - 30, it is reported on Jennie's line that she had six children and four living.

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Obituary for Jennie Grant
Extracted from Corpus Christi Caller-Times, Monday, September 29, page 2

Mrs. J. H. Grant

Funeral services will be held at 2:30 o'clock this afternoon for Mrs. J. H. Grant, 71, of 703 Blucher Street, who died at 1 o'clock Friday afternoon. Services will be held at the David T. Peel Chapel with Dr. George West Diehl, pastor of the First Presbyterian Church, officiating. Burial will be at Seaside Memorial Park.

Mrs. Grant, who had lived here since 1912, was a member of the First Presbyterian Church and of the Eastern Star.

She is survived by her husband, Dr. J. H. Grant; two sons, Howard Grant of Corpus Christi and C. H. Grant of Tyler; two daughters, Mrs. Thelma Hunnicutt of Rosenberg and Miss Asa Grant of Waco; a brother, Alvin Grady of Burkburnett, Texas, and a sister, Mrs. Etta Barker of Oklahoma City.

Pallearers will be M. G. Ellis, George Davis, Earl Nicholson, W. B. Ray, W. E. Stanton, Emil Biel and Eugene Kipp. 		Jennie L. Grady
 
45 Beatrice Grant (Mrs. Asa D. Cordill) recalled some time later her memories of the Grant family in Winters, Runnels County, Texas. Taken from the book, "Runnels Is My County," by Charlsie Poe, beginning on page 201:

........In a day when entertainment was non-existent Winters people furnished their own recreation by organizing a community band. The director was Charles Tipton Grant, known as Charlie, who came to Winters with his sister, Attie, and widowed mother in 1899 to be near their brother and son, Dr. J. H. Grant, who had arrived five years before. The entire family were musicians.

Charlie had played in a band at Denton and thought the town had to have a band, so he organized one. He also thought that they should have uniforms. Their first ones were white middy blouses and dark pants, with a skirt for Attie who was also a member.

Attie Grant who later married Asa Cordill of Ballinger, where she lives today, the only living charter member of the band, recalled that the first members were Ben Spill, Albert Spill, George Lollar, Will Meek, Wilder Hunter, Will Burk, Mitchell Overby, Will Ernst, Fritz Ernst, Will Pierce, George Murray and a Mr. Crews. They learned to march down the road, which is now Main Street, to the tune of "Hot Time in the Old Town Tonight." The road was so rough that it was hard to march and play at the same time.

In addition to the brass band, there was also a string band composed of "four of us," Mrs. Cordill said. "Dr. Grant played the violin, I played the mandolin, Charlie the guitar, and Mitchell Overby the banjo. We furnished music for all the entertainments around and had a good time doing it. 'Turkey in the Straw' was one of our numbers.

"It was quite a feather in her cap for the small town of Winters to have such a band," said Mrs. Cordill. Although the town consisted of only a few people and the only public meeting place the one-room schoolhouse, the band was known throughout West Texas, and was the largest band west of Fort Worth.

By 1905 the band had new uniforms, blue with gold stripes, which cost $14 each. They were the finest that could be bought. Many more young men of the community had joined by this time. Among them were three who are living today. They are Adolph Ernst, Charlie Adami and Ernest Adami.

A bandstand was built on a lot in front of the Methodist church. Every Friday night was practice and the citizens turned out to hear the band practice, as well as to attend concerts on Sunday afternoon. Two favorite numbers were "Under the Double Eagle" and the "Anvil Chorus." In later years the bandstand was moved to Tinkle Park. When the park was closed, it was moved to the Tinkle farm.

Traveling in a bandwagon drawn by four white horses, trips were made to many surrounding towns to play for weddings, box suppers, picnics, old settlers' reunions and political rallies. The band played for a wedding in Ballinger one winter when it was so cold the horns froze. Longer trips were made by wagon to Ballinger, the nearest railroad, and continued from Ballinger by train. Brownwood, San Angelo, Coleman and Big Spring were included in the itinerary. Any journey out of town required at least three days and more often the celebration lasted that long.

The most exciting tour the band ever made was to Brownwood for the first prohibition campaign in Brown County. "We were hired by the pros and the Granbury band, a third larger than ours, was hired by the antis. We were furnished bandwagons and each side had parades for three days," the late John Curry recalled. "The father of Cyclone Davis was the pro speaker and a man named Anthony spoke for the antis. He announced he would speak at the courthouse and we broke up the meeting by marching round the courthouse, carrying kerosene torches, and yelling at the tops of our voices. Needless to say, the pros won the election."

Charlie [Tipton Grant] continued to direct the band for fifteen years, or longer, until he moved to Corpus Christi where he lost everything in the flood. He and his wife, the former Mattie Curry, later moved to Austin........
 		Beatrice Lurette Tipton Grant
 
46 Adapted from the excellent research done by Marty Grant and available on-line at MartyGrant.com
(see: http://www.martygrant.com/gen/grant/grantnc/grant-john-lenoir.htm)

John Grant was born about 1756, possibly near Kinston in what is now Lenoir County, but was then Johnston County (until 1758 when it became Dobbs County). At this time, it is not known who his parents or siblings were. Some suggest that he is a son of, or younger brother to William Grant of Dobbs.

On 20 Nov 1771, a John Grant was listed on a Dobbs Co, NC Militia Muster Roll. This John Grant could be the same John Grant mentioned here; he could be John Grant (of Walnut Creek, Wayne Co, NC) or his son John Grant .

On 6 Aug 1773, a John Grant (Sr) was murdered by one James Wilson in Dobbs County. The details of this incident are not clear but indicate that John's wife Mary and their son John Grant Jr witnessed the murder. If this John Grant (Sr) is the John Grant of interest here, then this tends to prove that the name of John's wife was Mary, and that his son was named John (Jr). Marty Grant has other data indicating that this is probably the John Grant of what is now Wayne County, NC, and that John (Jr), his son, was in the same area.

Marty is certain that the following records (after 1773) are for the John Grant under study here, or for the other John Grant who lived in what is now Wayne Co, NC.

On 26 Jun 1777 John Grant "Jr" was named on the Militia Roll for Captain Kennedy's company. This is most likely the John Grant under study here. The "Jr" used in his name meant he was the younger of the two adult John Grant's living in Dobbs County at that time. It doesn't necessarily mean that he is related to whoever John Grant "Sr" was. In the Militia Roll, it was merely used to distinguish men of the same name, regardless of how (or if) related. (Dobbs Co, NC Militia Muster Roll)

On 6 Jan 1778 John Grant entered 100 acres of land on the North side of the Neuse river, and both sides of Reedy Branch bordering Michael Herring. This was in the Walnut Creek area. This is the other John Grant. (Dobbs Co, NC Land Entries 1778-1790 Book 1 page 21).

On 14 Mar 1778 John Grant entered 50 acres on the south side of Briery Branch joining Thomas Bond, Thomas Phillips, William Moore and William Wooten. These are some of his same neighbors on the 1780 Dobbs Co, NC tax list, so it seems highly likely that this is the John Grant under study here. (Dobbs Co, NC Land Entries 1778-1790 Book 1 page 285).

On 19 May 1778 one of the two John Grant's received bounty from Richard Caswell for military service in Dobbs Co, NC. Marty does not know which John Grant this was. (From Dobbs County Genealogical Society Journal, May 1983.)

In 1779 Wayne County was formed from the western part of Dobbs County. So records for John Grant after 1779 in Dobbs pertain to this John, while the other John Grant would be in Wayne County beginning 1779.

The 1780 Dobbs Co, NC Tax list shows John Grant listed in Harvey District, which is the area east of Kinston, but north of the Neuse River (a large area). This record places him in close proximity to some other people who are significant for reasons explained below. His neighbors on the 1780 tax list included many names, but these are the most interesting because they were also neighbors in 1790 to Mary Grant (an apparent widow) and her apparent son Isaac Grant, whom we believe are John Grant's wife and son:

From 1780 Tax list, same district, and how close they were to Mary and Isaac in 1790:

John Wooten (2 houses from John Grant in 1780, about 20 houses from Mary in 1790)

Markland Wooten (next to John Grant in 1780, about 20 houses from Mary in 1790)

George Bell (2 houses from John Grant in 1780, 8 houses from Mary in 1790)

While this doesn't provide conclusive proof, it adds support to Marty's theory that John Grant was the the husband of Mary Grant. Her children were born about 1763 through about 1777 in "Lenoir County". This entire family left the area in the 1790's and moved to Washington Co, VA. A biography written on one of James B. Grant's sons, Hugh M. Grant, states that Hugh's father James B. Grant was born in Lenoir County, NC.

A Washington Co, VA deed (Book 11 page 107) names all of the above children, as heirs and siblings of John Grant deceased (the son of John and Mary).

Since the last child known to be born to Mary Grant was circa 1777, that works well with the John Grant under study here if he died ca 1780 (the 1780 tax list was his last record). Mary Grant was listed on the 1790 census in Dobbs Co, NC with her direct neighbors and many others nearby being the exact same names next to and near John Grant on the 1780 tax list. This isn't conclusive proof, but adds support to Marty's theory that John Grant and Mary were husband and wife, pending evidence to the contrary. Isaac Grant, apparently single, was listed next to Mary in 1790.

1790 census analysis (based on available evidence):

1790 Dobbs Co, NC pg 136 Mary Grant 0-3-2-0-0

Analysis:

3 Male(s) under 16 (1774/1790)Gardner GRANT (1773) son
John GRANT (1775) son
James B. GRANT (1777) son

2 Female(s) any age (before 1790)Mary --- Grant, widow of John Grant
Elizabeth GRANT (c1771) daughter

1790 Dobbs Co, NC pg 136 Isaac Grant 1-0-0-0-0
Analysis:

1 Male(s) 16 and Up (before 1774)Isaac GRANT (ca 1763) s/o John and Mary.

Isaac and his mother Mary and all the rest of this family moved to Washington Co, VA in the 1790's. 		John Grant
 
47 We first find the John Henry Grant family in the 1900 Census for Runnels County, Texas. Here is what the 1900 Census reports on this family:

1900 Federal Census, Runnels County, Texas,
Enumeration District 127, sheet 2, line 43:

Place
Name Age Relationship Profession of Birth

Grant, John H. 36 Physician Texas
Jennie 30 Wife Tennessee
C. Herbert 8 Son Texas
Howard 3 Son Texas
Thelma 5 mo Daughter Texas

Other items of interest reported on this family in the 1900 Census:

Dr. Grant reports that his father was born in Virginia and that his mother was born in Tennessee.

Jennie reports that both of her parents were born in Tennessee.

The 1910 Census for Runnels County, Texas, reports on this family:

1910 Federal Census for Runnels County, Texas,
Enumeration District 213, sheet 7A, lines 24 - 30:

Place
Name Age Relationship Profession of Birth

John H. Grant 44 Physician Texas
Jennie 38 Wife Tennessee
Herbert 18 Son Texas
Howard 13 Son Texas
Philene* 10 Daughter Texas
Asa 7 Daughter Texas
Mattie Grady** 63 Mother-in-Law Tennessee

Notes: *Philene is undoubtably a nickname given to Thelma Irene Grant. ** Mattie Grady is Jennie's mother -- from this reference we conclude that Jennie's maiden name was Grady.

Other items of interest reported on this family in the 1910 Census:

The John Henry Grant family is living in Ballinger, Runnels County, Texas, at the time of the 1910 Census.

Dr. Grant reports that he has been married 20 years (from which we conclude that he and Jennie were married Abt. 1890). John Henry Grant reports that he owns a farm and a house. John Henry Grant reports that his father was born in Tennessee (which contradicts his 1900 report) and his mother was born in Tennessee -- we believe that the 1900 reports was correct.

Jennie reports that she has had 6 births with 4 children living. She also reports that both her parents were born in Tennessee.

Mattie Grady (maiden name not known) reports that both of her parents were born in North Carolina.

The 1920 Census for Nueces County, Texas, reports on this family:

1920 Federal Census for Nueces County, Corpus Christi, Texas,
Enumeration District 176, Ward 2, sheet 4B, lines 94 - 100:

Father Mother
Place Place Place
of of of
Name Relationship Age Birth Birth Birth Occupation

Grant, John H. Head 56 TX VA TN Physician
Jennie Wife 50 TN TN TN None
Charles H. Son 27 TX TX TN None
John H. Son 23 TX TX TN Tailor
Anna Wife 21 TX NE NE Tailor
NOTE: Anna is the wife of John Howard Grant
Asa D. Daughter 16 TX TX TN None
Mathis, John E. Boarder 68 TN TN VA Farmer

Using the 1900 Census, the 1910 Census, and this Census, we deduce that the two sons of Dr. John Henry Grant are named Charles Herbert Grant and John Howard Grant.

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According to his Texas Medical Association membership record:

Grant, J. H. was born in Springfield, Texas, 9-17-1863. His TMA record shows that he lived in Denton, Texas (4 years), Hylton, Texas (4 years), and Milton, Texas (10 years). We do not have a clear picture of the order in which these early residences ocurred.

John Henry Grant received his preleminary education at Marvin College in Waxahachie, Texas.

Marvin College was established by the Northwest Texas Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South. The college was named for Enoch M. Marvin, a bishop at the General Conference in 1866. Marvin College was built in the northeast part of town on forth acres donated by Emory W. Rogers. The school had a three-story classroom and office building and two dormitories. The college was incorporated on May 8, 1873, by the Thirteenth Texas Legislature. High school and college courses were taught in geology, military science, chemistry, and telegraphy. The school experienced financial difficulties throughout its existence. Although the college had property valued at $40,000 (a tidy sum for its day) it also had a mortgage of almost $7,000. By 1875 the debt became such a burden that the college had to be sold to pay it. In 1878 a committee acting for the Northwest Conference repurchased the college for the church. The school was reopened and operated until 1883 when it was again placed on the market to pay the debt. Marvin College was sold in 1884 (some records say 1883) for use as a public school, and Marvin Elementary School was later built on the site. The Texas Historical Commission placed a marker there in 1977. Marvin College never reopened operations after 1883.

John Henry Grant received his medical education at the Medical Department, Tulane University, New Orleans, Louisiana, graduating in 1888.

He received his state certificate two years prior to graduation in 1886.

He practiced medicine in Runnels County, Texas until 1912 when he moved to Corpus Christi, Texas where he practiced medicine until his retirement in 1949.
He was a member of the Texas Medical Association from 1904 until 1936.

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Obituary for Dr. John Henry Grant
Extracted from Corpus Christi Caller-Times, April 21, 1952, page 8, section A

Dr. J. H. Grant

Funeral services from Dr. J. H. Grant, who practiced medicine here from 1912 until 1949, will be held at 2:30 pm Monday at Clifford Jackson Funeral Home Chapel. Dr. S. Evan Brown, pastor of First Presbyterian Church, will officiate. Burial will be in Seaside Memorial Park.

Dr. Grant died at the home of his son in Tyler at 1:30 am Saturday. He was 88 years of age.

At the time of his retirement, he was the oldest practicing physician in Corpus Christi. He had lived in Tyler the past year.

Surviving are two sons, C. H. Grant, Tyler, Howard Grant, Corpus Christi, two daughters, Mrs. Thelma Hunnicutt, Bay City, Texas, Miss Asa D. Grant, Waco; and four sisters, Mrs. Harrell, Denton, Mrs. John Kipp, California, Mrs. James Brewer, and Mrs. Asa Cordell, both of Ballinger.

Dr. Grant served as president of the Nueces County Medical Society in 1918, and was a member of the Knights of Pythias, AF and AM, and the Presbyterian Church.

Pallbearers will be John Harney, George M. Connell, P. C. Webster, Walter D. Nolte, Earl Nicholson, W. K. Knowles, Niles Broyles and Nick Pelligrino.

Honorary pallbearers will be Dr. C. O. Watson, John Simon, a Mr. Broughton of Taft, Joel Burllock, M. G. Ellis, R. P. Grubb, Roger South, James South, Spohn Welch, Linton Savage, James Sorris and Capt. Ed Edwards.

Seaside Memorial Park
4357 Ocean Drive
Corpus Christi, TX 78412
316-992-9411

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48 Though it contradicts other information we have gathered, the following article on Nathan Worley Grant from the book, "Runnels County Pioneers," is included here. We believe that most of this article is based on information from Mrs. Asa D. Cordill (Beatrice Lurette Grant):

"Nathan Worley Grant was born December 11, 1831 in Tennessee. He was a son of William Calloway Grant. He graduated from the Virginia Military Institute in 1851. Gold had been discovered in Australia so he decided to go there to try his luck. Apparently he did find gold since he circumnavigated the earth after leaving Australia in 1855. He toured all the principal cities of Europe. He returned to Tennessee where he worked at his profession of surveying and civil engineering. Next N. W. Grant moved to Missouri and then to Collin County, Texas about 1857. Then he moved to Limestone County, Texas where he taught school. There he married Josephine Elizabeth Tipton, daughter of Jacob and Martha (Henry) Tipton; she was born in Tennessee near Knoxville

"When the Civil War broke out, N. W. Grant helped form and became a member of Terry's Texas Rangers which was formed in Limestone County, Texas. He participated in the Battle of Shiloh, the Battle of Chancellorsville, and the Battle of Chickamauga. He received a medical discharge.

"In 1869 he moved to Johnson County, Texas, and shortly after 1880 he moved to Nolan County, Texas.

"Nathan Worley Grant died August 16, 1883 in Nolan County, Texas. He was buried in a marked grave which bears the Masonic Emblem in Bluff Creek Cemetery, Nolan County, Texas. His wife died in 1909 and was buried in Evergreen Cemetery, Ballinger, Texas."

COMMENTARY ON THIS ARTICLE: We believe that this article from the book, "Runnels County Pioneers," is mistaken on several points:

1. Independent research as well as our own shows that Nathan Worley Grant was born in Washington County, Virginia -- not Tennessee.

2. His father's name was Isaac Calloway Grant -- not William Calloway Grant. Now, Nathan did name one of his sons William Calloway Grant and this might have led early researchers to draw a wrong conclusion.

3. We have found no record of his having attended let alone graduated from Virginia Military Institute.

4. This article states that Nathan Worley's wife was named Josephine Elizabeth; however, in the 1900 Census for Runnels County, Mrs. Grant reports her name to be: Grant, Elizabeth J. which leads us to believe that her name was Elizabeth Josephine.

5. While we do have evidence that Nathan Worley Grant joined Terry's Texas Rangers at the outset of the Civil War, we find no evidence that he was involved in founding or organizing this unit.

6. Bluff Creek Cemetery is located in southern Taylor County, about 13 miles north of Winters, Texas (not in Nolan County as the article states).

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We initially established the N. W. Grant family as the parents of Doctor John Henry Grant by following several clues:

1. According to John Henry Grant's Texas Medical Association membership record, he was born in Springfield, Texas, 9-17-1863. We knew that at least one place we might find his parents would be in Springfield, Texas in the 1860's -- we assumed Limestone County.

2. We found only one Grant in the 1860 Federal Census for Limestone County, Town of Springfield, page 1, dwelling number 4, family number 4, residing with the Reuben Long family. Here is what the 1860 Census shows on this:

Value Value of
of Real Personal Place
Name Age Sex Color Profession Estate Estate of Birth

Reuben Long 40 M W Druggist $6000 $4000 SC
Nancy C. (Long) 21 F W TN
N. W. Grant 29 M W Teacher $4000 $500 VA
Louisa C (Long) 10 F W TX

NOTE: We were not able to locate N. W. Grant in the 1870 Census, though the Reuben Long family is still shown to be in Springfield, Limestone County, Texas. We know that he was not still living with the Reuben Long family.

3. We found the N. W. Grant family in the 1880 Census living in Johnson County, Texas. Here is what the 1880 Census reports on this family:

Place
Name Age Sex Color Profession of Birth

N. W. Grant 49 M W Farmer VA
Josephine 39 F W Housekeeper TN
Harry* 16 M W TX
Katie 14 F W TX
Willie (or Willis) 10 M W TX
Ollie 7 F W TX
Ellin (or Ellen) 5 F W TX
Charles 5 M W TX
Allie (or Alles) 2 F W TX

NOTE: Harry is a common nickname for the given name Henry. John Henry Grant reports in the 1900 Census for Runnels County, Texas, that his father is born in Virginia and his mother is born in Tennessee (as with this family).

4. In Dr. John Henry Grants's obituary, four sisters are shown surviving him. There are four sisters shown in this Census. At least two of these sisters become key in nailing down the fact that this is the family -- but we will find them later in Runnels County.

5. We had already found Dr. John Henry Grant in the 1900 Census for Runnels County, Fifth Precinct, Enumeration District 127, Sheet Number 2, line 43, dwelling 27, family 27.

6. Just down the street from the John Henry Grant family in the 1900 Census for Runnels County, Fifth Precinct, Enumeration District 127, Sheet Number 1, line 89, dwelling 16, family 16 we find Elizabeth J. Grant. Here is what the 1900 Census reports on the Elizabeth J. Grant family:

Place Place
Place of of
Date of Birth of Birth Birth
Name Relation Color Sex Month Year Age Birth Father Mother

Grant, Elizabeth J. Head White F Jul 1841 68 TN TN TN
NOTE: Elizabeth J. Grant reports she is a widow
Charlie T. Son White M Aug 1874 25 TX VA TN
Nellie E. Daug. White F Aug 1874 25 TX VA TN
NOTE: Like the N.W. Grant family of Johnson County in 1880, 20 years
earlier, this family reports a set of twins (Charlie T. and Nellie E.) who are
exactly 20 years older.
Beatrice L. Daug. White F Aug 1878 21 TX VA TN

We now know that this is Dr. John Henry Grant's mother and three of his younger siblings.

7. It is key to remember from Dr. John Henry Grant's obituary that amongst those surviving him were four sisters, two living in Ballinger, Texas by the names of Mrs. James Brewer and Mrs. Asa D. Cordell (or Cordill). We found in the County Court Records for Runnels County that Beatrice L. Grant married Asa D. Cordell (or Cordill) on 27 October 1901 and that Nellie E. Grant married James Brewer on 23 March 1902.

Thus, we are certain that N. W. and Elizabeth Josephine Grant are the parents of Dr. John Henry Grant.

We do not find N. W. Grant after the 1800 Census. However, we do find a Nathan Worley Grant, born 11 December 1831 in Washington County, Virginia, died 16 August 1883 in Runnels County, Texas and is buried in Bluff Creek Cemetery which is about 13 miles north of Winters, Texas and just inside Taylor County, Texas. Nathan Worley Grant is mentioned in the Pioneers of Runnels County.

Note: Nathan Worley Grant was named for his maternal Grandfather, Nathan Worley. 		Nathan Worley Grant
 
49 Obituary for James Edwin Hambright:

James Edwin Hambright passed away Monday, June 19, 2000, after a prolonged illness. He was born May 31, 1936, in Brita, Arizona to Clesson and Alma Hambright. A memorial service will be held at Evangelical Presbyterian Church on U.S. 80 Thursday, June 22, at 10 a.m. with Allan Thompson officiating.

Mr. Hambright is survived by his wife, Barbara Diane of Marshall, and MISD teacher; brother and sister in law, Richard and Gladys Hambright of Winona; father and mother in law, M.K. and Carolyn Davis of Bay City; brother and sister in law, Thomas and Otti Davis of Wimberley; a niece, Carol Ann Sinclair and family of Midland; and nephews, Ricky Hambright and family of Houston and Joe Hambright of Winona.

In lieu of flowers all donations are requested to be made to either United Churches Care or the Evangelical Presbyterian Church Building Fund. Donations for both can be handled by calling 935-7898.

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Research Notes: Jim's obituary reports that he was born in Brita, Arizona, but in fact, his birthplace was Birta, Arkansas. 		Jim Hambright
 
50 Hugh Henry was a 3rd Sergeant duirng the War of 1812. He served from 8 Jan 1814 to 7 May 1814 under Captain Jehu Stephens and Colonel Samuel Wear. His second enlistment was from 6 Oct 1814 to 5 Mar 1815 and was a 2d Lieutenant when discharged. Hugh Henry
 

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