Silas Davis is the son of Moses and Winifred (Wallen) Davis.
Married Jane Jones abt 1832.
Silas left Council Bluffs, Iowa as part of a wagon train consisting of 30 wagons. His brother Harmon Davis was captain and his sisters Judith Davis-Long and Rachel Davis-Hatfield also traveled with thier families.
Silas' family had been ill with the measles prior to the trip. They were all still weak when they reached the Platte River and encountered a cholera outbreak. Silas succumbed to the disease a couple days later. As written in the memoirs of his neice Mary Jane Long.
"We had to make a rough box from planks taken out of the wagons and we wrapped his body in bed clothes and buried him. It was so sad to see his family leave that lonely grave to never see it again."
4 of Silas' children were stricken with Cholera. 3 of his sons; Aaron, Elisha and James, died. They were denied by other members of the wagon train their dying pleas for water as it was scarce. The only one to survive was his daughter who was nursed by her aunt Judith. Judith would steal water and give her a tablespoon full as if it were medicine. Once after a rainfall, Judith found the little girl sucking the wet cover of the wagon to get some water. She was the only one to recover.
Married Jane Jones abt 1832.
Silas left Council Bluffs, Iowa as part of a wagon train consisting of 30 wagons. His brother Harmon Davis was captain and his sisters Judith Davis-Long and Rachel Davis-Hatfield also traveled with thier families.
Silas' family had been ill with the measles prior to the trip. They were all still weak when they reached the Platte River and encountered a cholera outbreak. Silas succumbed to the disease a couple days later. As written in the memoirs of his neice Mary Jane Long.
"We had to make a rough box from planks taken out of the wagons and we wrapped his body in bed clothes and buried him. It was so sad to see his family leave that lonely grave to never see it again."
4 of Silas' children were stricken with Cholera. 3 of his sons; Aaron, Elisha and James, died. They were denied by other members of the wagon train their dying pleas for water as it was scarce. The only one to survive was his daughter who was nursed by her aunt Judith. Judith would steal water and give her a tablespoon full as if it were medicine. Once after a rainfall, Judith found the little girl sucking the wet cover of the wagon to get some water. She was the only one to recover.
Silas Davis is the son of Moses and Winifred (Wallen) Davis.
Married Jane Jones abt 1832.
Silas left Council Bluffs, Iowa as part of a wagon train consisting of 30 wagons. His brother Harmon Davis was captain and his sisters Judith Davis-Long and Rachel Davis-Hatfield also traveled with thier families.
Silas' family had been ill with the measles prior to the trip. They were all still weak when they reached the Platte River and encountered a cholera outbreak. Silas succumbed to the disease a couple days later. As written in the memoirs of his neice Mary Jane Long.
"We had to make a rough box from planks taken out of the wagons and we wrapped his body in bed clothes and buried him. It was so sad to see his family leave that lonely grave to never see it again."
4 of Silas' children were stricken with Cholera. 3 of his sons; Aaron, Elisha and James, died. They were denied by other members of the wagon train their dying pleas for water as it was scarce. The only one to survive was his daughter who was nursed by her aunt Judith. Judith would steal water and give her a tablespoon full as if it were medicine. Once after a rainfall, Judith found the little girl sucking the wet cover of the wagon to get some water. She was the only one to recover.
Married Jane Jones abt 1832.
Silas left Council Bluffs, Iowa as part of a wagon train consisting of 30 wagons. His brother Harmon Davis was captain and his sisters Judith Davis-Long and Rachel Davis-Hatfield also traveled with thier families.
Silas' family had been ill with the measles prior to the trip. They were all still weak when they reached the Platte River and encountered a cholera outbreak. Silas succumbed to the disease a couple days later. As written in the memoirs of his neice Mary Jane Long.
"We had to make a rough box from planks taken out of the wagons and we wrapped his body in bed clothes and buried him. It was so sad to see his family leave that lonely grave to never see it again."
4 of Silas' children were stricken with Cholera. 3 of his sons; Aaron, Elisha and James, died. They were denied by other members of the wagon train their dying pleas for water as it was scarce. The only one to survive was his daughter who was nursed by her aunt Judith. Judith would steal water and give her a tablespoon full as if it were medicine. Once after a rainfall, Judith found the little girl sucking the wet cover of the wagon to get some water. She was the only one to recover.
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