Wife of George Whitfield Davis. They married on March 25, 1886 in Hinds County, Mississippi. Daughter of Wesley Crisler and Catherine Salmons Crisler. Granddaughter of Julius Crisler and Elizabeth (Souther) Crisler, Burrell (Burwell) Salmons and Mary Bobo. She was born and lived her entire life in the same house on Davis Road, Hinds County, Mississippi, on the Crisler Plantation. After her husband, Papa, was no longer able to farm, she took over managing the plantation and all the farm hands. My mother, Muriel, was born on the Crisler Plantation and lived her early childhood there with her parents and grandparents. It was still a working cotton plantation at that time. She told me wonderful stories about her time living there. One was about dinner time. In the South, the three daily meals were called breakfast, dinner and supper. The main meal, dinner, was prepared for the family and the farm hands too. The field hands would be summoned to the main house by my great grandmother ringing a bell outside by the porch. The family ate their dinner together in the formal dining room and the farm hands sat at a table in the kitchen to eat. My mother wished she could have sat back in the kitchen with the field hands because they were always laughing and having a good time. She was stuck at the main table with her parents and grandparents, all stiff and proper, not saying much of anything to one another. Mother said that her grandmother never went outside without her bonnet. She had a patch of broom straw that she tended by fertilizing it so it would grow tall enough to make good brooms. There were regular quilting bees held at the home. The dining room had hooks embedded in the ceiling that supported the quilting frame attached to twine. The ladies would gather to do their work on the quilt and to share the latest community gossip.

Children:

Ernest Ward Davis b: 6 OCT 1887
Leslie Crisler Davis b: 17 NOV 1889
Nelon Price Davis* b: 15 APR 1891

* Our ancestor