Veteran of the War of 1812

"1883 HISTORY OF HOWARD AND COOPER COUNTIES"
PRAIRIE HOME TOWNSHIP
MAJOR DRURY DAVIS Major Drury Davis was one of the early settlers of Howard county, Missouri. He emigrated from Wayne county, Kentucky, and settled in Howard county, Missouri, in the fall of 1817, about three miles southeast of where Fayette is now. He was one of the first justices of the peace of Howard county. He was a great hunter. He killed a great many deer, found a great many bees, and manufactured a considerable amount of gunpowder. After about four years residence in Howard county he emigrated to Cole county, Missouri, and settled at a very noted spring about sixteen miles southwest of Jefferson City when that country was a wilderness. Soon after he settled in Cole county, he built a powder mill and manufactured a large quantity of gunpowder. He was justice of the peace, major of the state militia, and represented Cole county in the state legislature when Cole included nearly all of what is now Moniteau and Miller counties. In 1832 he removed to Cooper county, where he lived until 1843, engaged mainly in farming. In 1843 he removed to Macon county, Missouri, and engaged in farming and merchandising. He removed back to Cooper county in 1856, where he remained until he died, in the eighty-fifth year of his age, on the 10th of October, 1872.
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Drury Davis married Nancy P. East on June 11, 1815 in Wayne County, Kentucky. They had the following children:
1) Oliver Perry Davis
2) Jeremiah Davis
3) Martha Ann Davis Adams
4) North East Davis
5) George Urban Davis, b. January 30, 1823
6) Mary Jane Davis, b. October 10, 1824
7) Andrew J. Davis
8) Eliza Drury Davis Goodding
9) Drury Davis, Jr., b. June 1, 1829
10) Urban East Davis
11) Alexander Davis, b. March 6, 1831
12) Daniel East Davis
13) Francis Marion Davis
14) Nancy P. Davis, b. August 25, 1837
15) Peter H. N. Davis, b. January 31, 1840
16) Thomas J. Davis