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Black plaque № 23112

Henderson, TX, United States

William C. Davis. Came to Texas from North Carolina in 1835 and settled in this area, in what was then part of Nacogdoches County. He received a land grant in Lamar County for his service in the Indian wars of the late 1830s, but retained his homestead in Rusk County and was the patriarch of a large

family. He set aside part of his homestead for this family cemetery upon the death of his first wife, Caroline, in 1852. #10981

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