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- Reuben A. Davis, grandfather of Eliza Williams, married LucindaSummers, daughter of Billy and Clarissa Staples Summers, of White Oak,near Sunbright.
from A History of Morgan County Tennessee (1971), by Ethel Freytag andGlena Kreis Ott, page 64.
A marriage date is listed as May 1855 by Clarica (Clarissa) Staplesdescendent, Kim Barnes. Lucinda Summers is buried in Liberty Cemetery- Wartburg, Morgan County, Tennessee. Location - East of Wartburg,app. 2.7 miles from Jct. of Hwy 27 and 62, on the right side of Hwy 62by the Liberty Church. Transcription: Lucinda Summers Davis,5-19-1837, 5-19-1927. She was married to Reuben A. DAVIS (son ofJoseph S. DAVIS and Amanda WILLIAMS) on 9 Jul 1857 in Sunbright,Morgan County,Tennessee.17,18 Miss Eliza Williams (granddaughter) toldthe following story: Reuben A. Davis and his wife, Lucinda lived atEatons Cross Roads in Loudon County, Tennessee when the Civil Warbroke out. R.A. Davis as a Captain made up a company of men and tookthehem to Kentucky to join the Union Army. He left his wife and twosmall children on a small farm that had a brick house containing 14rooms, and a negro slave to help her. During the time that he wasgone, the Confederates camped at her farm and also burned up the railfence; using all the food that she had, such as, meat, chicken,turkeys, etc. The negro slave kept the two horses under a large cliffon a hillside near by. When Mrs. Davis wanted him to come to the houseto eat she would blow a an old cow's horn. He would then take back grainfor the horses. The Confederate Officers who camped in her home toldher that they would not bother her, but that she had better go to herpeople, so she got the woman who was helping her to ride one of thehorses and she rode the other, bringing the two small children and allthe belongings that they could carry on the horses about a distance of66 miles and came to her parents on White Oak Creek. She told thenegro slave that he would have to go as she no longer could keep him.
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