Fayette County, TN Genealogy

Goodspeed's History of Tennessee -

Fayette County Biographies

William I. Davis

Surnames: DAVIS, GATLEY, HARRIS, MORRIS, SNOW

William I. Davis was born in Montgomery County, N.C., July 3 1821, and is a son of Young and Sarah (Gatley) Davis. The father was born in North Carolina, October 18, 1800, and the mother in Virginia in the same year. The father died in South Carolina in 1864, the mother in 1866. They married in North Carolina in 1819; in 1849 they moved to South Carolina, where they lived until they died. The father followed the blacksmith's trade in connection with farming. Our subject is the oldest of seven children; by his own efforts he secured a good education. In 1847 he moved to Tennessee and settled in Hardeman County; two years later he moved to Fayette County, and settled tell miles southeast of Somerville, where he lived about twenty-eight years and in 1878 moved to his present farm. Mr. Davis now owns over 900 acres of valuable land in Fayette County. He was married the first time November 29, 1844, to Miss Patience Harris, who died November 20, 1864, leaving eight children. December, 1865, he married Mrs. Pamelia C. (Morris) Snow; no children have been born to this last union. Mr. Davis, his wife and all of the children are members of the Methodist Church. He is a Democrat, and is a man of fine character and unusual energy.

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