DUANE
Duane's take
Here's what the official marker has to say, and I'll do my best to do it justice. This is the story of the Davis Cemetery, out of Travis County. George W.
Davis — born around 1809, died 1884 — and his wife Emiline P. Moore Davis, born 1810, came to Texas with their family in 1835. Now think about that for a second.
Eighteen thirty-five. Texas wasn't even Texas yet in the way we'd recognize it, and here come the Davises, haulin' everything they owned into a land that was fixin' to turn the world upside down. And sure enough, it did.
When the fight at San Jacinto came, George Davis was in it — servin' under Captain Moseley Baker's company on that decisive field. But while George was marchin' into history, Emiline was livin' through a different kind of ordeal altogether. She spent six weeks on the banks of the Sabine River during the Runaway Scrape — six weeks — out there with the children, waiting, enduring, holding the family together while the fate of Texas got decided somewhere far to the west.
That is not a small thing. That is the kind of courage that doesn't get a battlefield monument but absolutely deserves one. George came through it.
In 1841, he received a patent for 3,154 acres — his headright — and built a home north of what would become the cemetery. And that cemetery — well, it started quietly, the way these things do. The earliest dated grave belongs to infant John H.
Vann, who died March 25, 1851. But the ground may have been receiving the departed as far back as 1845. Six years before that little stone was ever carved.
It remains, to this day, a chronicle — that's the word on the marker and it's exactly the right word — a chronicle of Davis family members and their neighbors. Cared for by descendants and friends. Out here in Travis County, that cemetery is still keeping the story.
Still keeping faith with the people who crossed the Sabine and didn't turn back.
What the marker says
George W. Davis (ca. 1809-1884), his wife Eiline P. Moore Davis (1810-1872) and family arrived in Texas in 1835. George served in Captian Mosely Baker's company at the Battle of San Jacinto while Emiline spent six weeks with the children on the banks of the Sabine River in the Runaway Scrape. Davis received a patent for 3154 acres of his deadright in 1841 and built a home north of the cemetery. The earliest dated grave is that of infant John H. Vann who died March 25, 1851, but the burial ground may have been in use as early as 1845. It remains a chronicle of Davis family members and neighbors and is cared for by descendants and friends. Historic Texas Cemetery-2000