A Wilson Family Tree
Notes for William Caldwell Davis
From the Parks manuscript:
William C. Davis was married when very young to Sallie Van Lear, sister to Walter’s wife. They were married before Walter. William was an enterprising business man; and having an excellent partner in his wife for a considerable number of years he prospered greatly in his native state; but meeting with serious reverses about the year of 1836 or ’37, he resolved to try the far west, and in ’38 he came to Missouri with very limited means and a large family. A few years afterwards he settled in Saline County, where by skillful industry and skillful farming, he acquired a handsome competency. And when called away in April 1857, at the age of sixty-three, he was free from debt and left considerable property to his children. His wife survived him some eighteen or twenty years. Their family consisted of seven sons, James Robinson, Jacob Van Lear, William, Daniel Smith, Andrew Alexander Arbuckle, Burrus Kincaid, and John Boyden, and two daughters, Martha Jane and Margaret Annie. These all survived him except the last named, who died unmarried at about the age of twenty years. Of the survivors and their families, as they are as well known to their relations generally as to me, I shall say nothing.
"History of Saline County, Missouri", Missouri Historical Co., St. Louis, 1881, p. 854:
From biography of John B. Davis: Col. Wm. C. Davis, was born in Augusta county, Virginia, in 1794, and lived there until 1838. In the war of 1812 he commanded the 70th Virginia regiment. He was the father of nine children, most of whom are now living in Missouri. [Later on, it also says that he was a member of the county court of Saline county.]
Waddell says that he moved to Missouri in 1836 or 1837.
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