A Memorial and Biographical History of Johnson and Hill Counties, Texas. Page: 335
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BIOGPAPHICAL SKETOHES.
S AMUEL K. DAVIS resides one mile
east of Grand View, Texas, but was
born in Lawrence county, Alabama, in
1822, and removed with his parents to Madison
county, of the same State, before he had
attained manhood. His parents were Williami
and Ann (McDaniel) Davis, and were
well-to-do farmers. In the subscription
schools of Madison county Samuel K. Davis
obtained his early schooling. He was one of
the following family: Jane, the deceased wife
of John Clum, of Madison county, left ten
children; Elizabeth married Smith Criswell,
and with one child survives him; Samuel K.;
James W. (deceased), first married Hannah
J. Damron, by whom he became the father
of four daughters and one son, and afterward
'Penelope Norris, who bore him one child;
Anderson married Eliza Martin, who with
one child survives him. lIe was an able
physician and was in the Confederate army,
and some time in 1862 died at Knoxville,
Tennessee; William resides at Newmarket,
Madison county, Alabama, and is married to
Nancy Jane Scott, by whom he has five living
children; Robert L., a farmer of Arkansas,married Eliza Henderson, by whom lie has
three children; and Holbert S., who married
Fannie Strong, by whom he has one daughter.
He enlisted in the first company to enter the
Confederate service from Madison county, but
was taken sick about the time his command
started to the front, and died; he also was a
good physician. William Davis, the father
of Samuel K., was a pioneer of Alabama, and
served in several Indian wars or campaigns
in that State.
From Madison county, Alabama, Samuel
K. Davis came to Texas, having previously
married, in 1844, Rebecca Jane Criner,
daughter of Granville and Martha W. (Barnes)
Criner. Upon reaching this State he rented
land for one year in Hill county, and then
came to the locality in which lie now resides,
at which time there were but few settlers in
the region. He at once purchased 420 acres
of land, of which 150 are covered with timber,
but has since increased his acreage, and
at the present time has 400 acres under cultivation,
and in all owns over 700 acres, on
which he raises cotton, corn, wheat and oats,
and stock to some extent. Ile his one ofAND HIL L COUNTIES.E~
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Lewis Publishing Company. A Memorial and Biographical History of Johnson and Hill Counties, Texas., book, 1892; Chicago, Illinois. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth46829/m1/352/: accessed July 18, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Dallas Genealogical Society.