DUANE
Duane's take
The official marker tells it this way, and I'm just the man passing it along. Now, if you were going to plant your roots in a new land, you'd want to pick your spot careful. George Washington Davis — Pennsylvania born, 1797 — he had that quality.
When he brought his family to Texas in 1831, he didn't just wander in and take whatever was left. He selected a league of land near what is now Cuero, right there in the Green De Witt Colony. The man had an eye for ground.
But George Washington Davis wasn't the type to just work his land and stay quiet. Texas in the early 1830s was a place where things were movin', and Davis moved with them. In 1833, he served as a delegate to the Second Convention of Texas.
Two years on, in 1835, he was back at it — this time as a delegate to the Consultation at San Felipe. That Consultation, you may recall, was one of those rooms where the future of Texas was being argued out loud. Davis was in it.
After the revolution settled into history, Davis shifted gears and held a number of local public offices. A man who'd helped shape the big picture, now tending to the day-to-day of his community. He passed in 1853.
His wife, Rebecca, had gone before him — she died in 1846. The two of them rest together, just one point eight miles west of where this marker stands. A Pennsylvania man who picked a league of Texas ground in 1831, helped push a revolution forward, and then stayed to see what it all became.
That's George Washington Davis.
What the marker says
Pennsylvania native George Washington Davis (1797-1853) brought his family to Texas in 1831. He selected a league of land near present-day Cuero in the Green De Witt Colony and became an active participant in the movement toward Texas Independence, serving as a delegate to the Second Convention of Texas in 1833 and as a delegate to the Consultation at San Felipe in 1835. After the revolution, Davis held a number of local public offices. He and his wife, Rebecca (d. 1846), are buried 1.8 miles west of this site. Texas Sesquicentennial 1836-1986