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James Anderson Monroe Davis

Birth
Ramer, Montgomery County, Alabama, USA
Death
9 Jan 1913 (aged 80)
Oakville, Live Oak County, Texas, USA
Burial
Live Oak County, Texas, USA Add to Map
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The following is a biographical sketch collected by B. H. Pearce:

Corporal J. A. M. Davis's statement, January 22nd, 1895.
Born October 9th, 1832, in Montgomery county. Alabama. Enlisted in
the Confederate service from Montgomery county April 1862; company A.,
5th Alabama light artillery battalion, participated in battles of
Barkersville, September 1862. Crab Apple Hill, Lankester and Richmond,
Kentucky, Murpheysborough, Tennessee, Chickamagua, Georgia, Knoxville,
Tennessee, Been's Station December 14th, 1863, and many other
skirmishes, was at the explosion at Petersburg, Virginia, July 30th,
1864. Came to Texas [1866], Henderson county postoffice Athens. Came
to Runnels county June, 1889, postoffice Fort Chadbourne. Married
family of eight children, by occupation, farmer, post office Ballinger.

According to his 1906 Confederate pension application, James and his wife, Malissa, separated around 1892, with her relocating to Scurry County with their children. James' health had deteriorated, with his doctor declaring that he was totally blind and unable to work or support himself. By 1910, he was living with his son Monroe in Live Oak county, and in 1912, applied to be placed in a Soldier's home in Oakville. He died there and was likely buried here in an unmarked pauper's grave.
The following is a biographical sketch collected by B. H. Pearce:

Corporal J. A. M. Davis's statement, January 22nd, 1895.
Born October 9th, 1832, in Montgomery county. Alabama. Enlisted in
the Confederate service from Montgomery county April 1862; company A.,
5th Alabama light artillery battalion, participated in battles of
Barkersville, September 1862. Crab Apple Hill, Lankester and Richmond,
Kentucky, Murpheysborough, Tennessee, Chickamagua, Georgia, Knoxville,
Tennessee, Been's Station December 14th, 1863, and many other
skirmishes, was at the explosion at Petersburg, Virginia, July 30th,
1864. Came to Texas [1866], Henderson county postoffice Athens. Came
to Runnels county June, 1889, postoffice Fort Chadbourne. Married
family of eight children, by occupation, farmer, post office Ballinger.

According to his 1906 Confederate pension application, James and his wife, Malissa, separated around 1892, with her relocating to Scurry County with their children. James' health had deteriorated, with his doctor declaring that he was totally blind and unable to work or support himself. By 1910, he was living with his son Monroe in Live Oak county, and in 1912, applied to be placed in a Soldier's home in Oakville. He died there and was likely buried here in an unmarked pauper's grave.

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