Husband of Armissa Elizabeth Hooper Davis

Asa Thomas Davis was born in Tennessee or Alabama on April 18, 1836. He came to Shelby County, Texas, in 1849. In 1860, Asa Davis, 24, and James Davis, 16, both farm laborers, were living in the home of James H. Truit.

Davis enlisted as a private in Capt. D. M. Short's Company E, 3rd Regiment, Mounted Cavalry also known as the South Kansas-Texas Mounted Volunteers, and was raised to 1 Sgt. Sgt. Davis's pension application states he served 3 years, under Capt. Short and Col. Greer's command. (See Handbook of Texas online for an interesting history of Col. Elkanah B. Greer's troops, Third Texas Calvary.)

Asa Thomas Davis married Armissa Elizabeth (Bettie) Hooper on June 7, 1864, in Shelby County, Texas.

Mr. Davis died on December 18, 1913, and his wife Bettie died in 1915, leaving 4 children: Asa Richard Davis, Ellie Aseneth Davis Pickard, Mary Frances Davis Corder, and Katie Cordelia King, all of whom lived near Ramah.

Sources:
Obituary for Mrs. Asa Davis, The Champion (Center, Texas), May 5, 1915.
1850, 1860, 1880, 1900, 1910 federal censuses, Shelby County, Texas.
Confederate Civil War Pensions, Texas State Library, http://www.tsl.state.tx.us/arc/pensions/index.php, accessed July 28, 2008.

Husband of Armissa Elizabeth Hooper Davis

Asa Thomas Davis was born in Tennessee or Alabama on April 18, 1836. He came to Shelby County, Texas, in 1849. In 1860, Asa Davis, 24, and James Davis, 16, both farm laborers, were living in the home of James H. Truit.

Davis enlisted as a private in Capt. D. M. Short's Company E, 3rd Regiment, Mounted Cavalry also known as the South Kansas-Texas Mounted Volunteers, and was raised to 1 Sgt. Sgt. Davis's pension application states he served 3 years, under Capt. Short and Col. Greer's command. (See Handbook of Texas online for an interesting history of Col. Elkanah B. Greer's troops, Third Texas Calvary.)

Asa Thomas Davis married Armissa Elizabeth (Bettie) Hooper on June 7, 1864, in Shelby County, Texas.

Mr. Davis died on December 18, 1913, and his wife Bettie died in 1915, leaving 4 children: Asa Richard Davis, Ellie Aseneth Davis Pickard, Mary Frances Davis Corder, and Katie Cordelia King, all of whom lived near Ramah.

Sources:
Obituary for Mrs. Asa Davis, The Champion (Center, Texas), May 5, 1915.
1850, 1860, 1880, 1900, 1910 federal censuses, Shelby County, Texas.
Confederate Civil War Pensions, Texas State Library, http://www.tsl.state.tx.us/arc/pensions/index.php, accessed July 28, 2008.