COL. REUBEN A. DAVIS,<\/b>\u00a0chairman of the county court of Morgan County, is the grandson of John\u00a0 M.\u00a0DAVIS<\/b>, one of the first settlers of the county.\u00a0 The latter came from Louisa County, Va., and located in Morgan County about one mile from Melhon’s Ford on Emory River, where he lived for several years.\u00a0 He then removed to Little Emory, where he died about\u00a0 1853.\u00a0 He had a family of three daughters and five sons, of\u00a0 whom\u00a0JOSEPH S<\/b>., the father of our subject, was the eldest.\u00a0 He was born in Virginia about the year 1800, and as a boy came with his father’s family to Tennessee.\u00a0 In 1823 he married\u00a0Amanda<\/b>, a daughter of\u00a0CHARLES WILLIAMS<\/b>, who came to Tennessee from Appomattox, Va., about 1814.\u00a0 They had five children,\u00a0Melinda, (Mrs. Abner F. Staples), John M., Charles G., Susannah, (Mrs. Lemuel Summer), and Reuben A.\u00a0<\/b>\u00a0The last named was born on April 12, 1833, in Roane County, near the Little Emory Iron Works.\u00a0 When he was only six months old his mother died, and at the age of twelve he was left an orphan.\u00a0 He then went to work for his uncle, at $4 per month, and continued to work for him until he reached the age of eighteen.\u00a0 At this time he engaged in the stock business, buying cattle in Morgan and surrounding counties, and driving them to Virginia.\u00a0 In August, 1863, he entered the Eleventh Regiment of Tennessee (Federal) Cavalry as lieutenant-colonel, and continued in that position until just before the consolidation of the the Eleventh and Ninth Regiments.\u00a0 On February 22, 1864, while leading his regiment in an engagement at Weirman’s Mill, Virginia against the brigade of Gen. Jones, he received two minie-balls in his body, both of which he still carries. He was captured by the enemy and held a prisoner for a time, but finally made his escape.\u00a0 In 1865 he purchased the farm where he now resides, consisting of 1,000 acres, of which 300 are in cultivation.\u00a0 In May 1855, Col. Davis was married to\u00a0Lucinda Summer<\/b>, a native of the county, and a daughter of\u00a0William and Clarissa (Staples) Summer<\/b>.\u00a0 Ten children have been born to them, nine of whom are now living.\u00a0 They are,\u00a0Virginia (Mrs. John Williams), John M., Milly A., Amanda, David K.T., William<\/b>\u00a0H., Charles II., Albert C., and Clarissa.<\/b>\u00a0 Col. Davis has filled the office of county surveyer for one term, and is now serving his third term of chairman as the county court.\u00a0 He has been a member of the Masonic Fraternity for twenty-one years and in politics is a Democrat.<\/p>\n
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Source:\u00a0History of Tennessee from the Earliest Time to the Present: Together with an Historical and a Biographical Sketch of from Twenty-Five to Thirty Counties of East Tennessee. Chicago: Goodspeed, 1887.<\/p>\n
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COL. REUBEN A. DAVIS,\u00a0chairman of the county court of Morgan County, is the grandson of John\u00a0 M.\u00a0DAVIS, one of the first settlers of the county.\u00a0 The latter came from Louisa County, Va., and located in Morgan County about one mile from Melhon’s Ford on Emory River, where he lived for several years.\u00a0 He then removed… Continue reading DAVIS, Reuben A. (Colonel) – (b. 1833)<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[71],"tags":[20,17,76,12],"class_list":["post-190","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biography","tag-davis","tag-staples","tag-summer","tag-williams","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/morgan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/morgan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/morgan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/morgan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/morgan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=190"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/morgan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3959,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/morgan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190\/revisions\/3959"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/morgan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=190"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/morgan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=190"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/morgan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=190"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}