JESSE KENCHELOE DAVIS was born in Alabama on January 11, 1802. After arriving in Texas, in December, 1830, he received three-fourths of a league and one labor of land from the Fort Bend County Board. Later, on May 15, 1832, he received title to one-fourth of a league of land in DeWitt's Colony. Mr. Davis and Mary Elisha Davis were married by bond at Brazoria May 5, 1835.

Mr. Davis fought at the Battle of San Jacinto as a member of Captain William H. Patton's "Columbia Company" and on July 5, 1838, he was issued 640 acres of land for participating in the battle. In Service Record No. 7895 it is certified that he served in the army from March 17 to June 26, 1836.

After the war, life was returning to some what normal in Texas and the Davis's were remarried by David T. Fetchett at Brazoria on August 5, 1839. Mr. Davis died at Gonzales November 28, 1869. Mrs. Davis, born in Alabama May 12, 1819, died January 11, 1875. The couple were buried in the Masonic Cemetery at Gonzales.

They had eleven children, Thomas, Kencheloe, Francis, Warren, Steven, William, Adaline, Plina, George, Henry, and John Davis.
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DAVIS. J.K. Davis arrived in the DeWitt Colony as a single man in 1830 according to land grant records. He received a quarter sitio on the east bank of the Guadalupe River northwest of Gonzales next to grants to Green DeWitt and W.W. Arrington. He was deeded two lots in the inner town and it is unclear if he improved or lived on them. According to Eggleston family records, he helped build their "dog-run" home in the 1840's in Gonzales that is a current historic landmark in Gonzales. Davis was a private in Capt. William H. Patton's company, 2nd Texas Regiment under Col. Sherman in the Battle of San Jacinto.
Jesse Kincheloe Davis was born in Kentucky January 11, 1802, the son of Warren Davis and his wife Molly Kincheloe. Both the Davis and Kincheloe families were in Kentucky before the American Revolution when it was a county of Virginia. It was not known when Jesse K. Davis and a number of his relatives left Kentucky but his name appeared on many legal documents in Booneville, Missouri between 1820 and 1830. While in Booneville Jesse joined the Masonic Lodge and was made secretary. It was recorded in his hand in the minutes that he and Warren Davis, who could have been either his brother or his father, resigned the lodge. Later he presented himself for membership with the Masonic Lodge No. 30 in Gonzales, Texas. In 1832 Jesse K. Davis received a Spanish land grant in DeWitt's Colony. He married Eliza Davis May 5, 1835 in Brazoria County, Texas. Jesse Kincheloe Davis answered the call to arms and fought for the independence of Texas. While he fought in the Battle of San Jacinto, Eliza, his wife, watched from the vantage point of a tree. She had left their first-born, a son one month old, on the ground with a nurse. Information provided with permission from SONS OF DEWITT COLONY TEXAS
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