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- Notes for WILLIAM LYTEL DAVIS:
The Adjutant General's Office. Washington, March 13, 1908. It is shown by the records that W.L. Davis, private, Company K, 17th Texas Infantry, C.S.A., was enlisted April 2, 1862. On a muster roll of the company dated March 1, 1864, the last on file, he is reported as present. No later record found.
William Lytel Davis was born February 10, 1837. He being next to Swip, of course, took part in the work on the farm and helped to make the crops. He was a natural mechanic, could do any kind of work. He stayed at home very close, did not care much for company, had a distant disposition, but firm convictions. He has a common school education and was a fine scribe. He taught school for several years (writing) in his younger days. He went to Texas in 1859 and enlisted in the southern army in 1862, he served through the war, then married and settled down in Nacogdoches county, Texas and raised a family of 4 children, two girls and two boys. He made a useful citizen and was elected to the position of judge of his county for two or three terms. In 1901, he paid his old home a visit, then returned to Texas but was soon stricken with rheumatism and died. This was brother William's sketch as best I can remember. Valentine Sublett Davis
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1837 - 1908 (71 years)
