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View Tree for Harmon Davis IIIHarmon Davis III (b. 1798, d. 1865)

Harmon Davis III (son of Harmon Davis, Jr. and Phoebe) was born 1798 in SC118, and died 1865 in Winston Co., AL. He married Nancy Posey on 1819 in SC118.

 Includes NotesNotes for Harmon Davis III:
1850 Census Winston Co., AL Family 29 1860 Census Winston Co., AL Family 273 1830 Census Gwinnett Co., GA 210001 12001 1840 Census Tuscaloosa Co., AL 2121001 1212001

HARMON and NANCY left South Carolina after the birth of their second child in 1821. They moved to Georgia where they lived for about 10 years. In tracing Harman's trail, census records indicate he came via Tuscaloosa County, then on to Hancock (Winston) County before 1850. The family was still in Winston County, Ala. where census records find them in 1860.

HARMON "HARM" DAVIS and family came into Winston County long before the Civil War. They were some of the earliest settlers. After the war and the death of Harm, several members of the family moved to Walker County, Ala. Others migrated to Texas and Oklahoma, as new opportunities opened for them.

W. S. Thompson in his historical novel "TORIES of the HILL", mentions HARMAN DAVIS. This book describes the struggles of guerrilla warfare between the pro-union faction and the pro-south faction of Winston County. On page 167, HARM tells Judge PARKER, that the home guard was being shot at by the TORIES ( Union sympathizers) at Gold Mine, west of the Little New River. In the spring of 1864, a group of TORIES went to the HARM DAVIS place, burned his cotton gin and caught HARM and burned his feet in the fireplace trying to get Harm to tell where his money was hidden! Harm died in 1865 as a result of this with burial in Winston County, Ala. NANCY and HARMAN DAVIS had 13 children.

Other sources include 1850 AL Census - Hancock Co. later Winston Co., Northern District, page 358. "Davis Trail Tracing" by Pat York Davis. ---------------------------------------------- Nancy Posey Davis and a cousin or sibling to Squire Posey. Winston: An Antebellum & Civil War History of A Hill County of North Alabama by Donald B. Dodd & Wynelle S. Dodd Vol 4.

War of 1812 Soldiers of Winston Co. Wyatt Cheatham, Thomas Chilcoat, Solomon Curtis, John Eddy, Cornelius Jackson, Johnson King, Robert McClung, Matthew Payne, Larkin Poe [ husb or fa-in-law to Mary A Davis that married Larkin Marion Poe], Squire Posey, Jacob Pruet, Robert Walker, Jacob Webb, Samuel Wyley

Van Thomas Davis Union Soldier [ age of roster 28 & Sgt in Pvt E ] b 2/27/1826 & d. 5/22/1912 is bur: next to his sister Mary Davis Poe Old Bethel, Omary's Mill, Winston Co., AL. Larkin M. Poe was Pvt Co E 28th Ala Vols. & was POW during Civil War and died in TN as a POW. Conf. James Davis Pvt Co F 28th ALa Vols. Conf

In the late 1940s before my papa died [1949], they held a Davis reunion in Pauls Valley, Garvin CO., OK at the city park. Dad drove us from CA to Pauls Valley to visit and attend the reunion. During the reunion I was setting on my papa's knee when 3 Indians walked up and put their hands out to my granny. I jumped off papa's knee and scream for my daddy and ran like the devil was after me. Dad finally got me into his arms and everyone was laughing and my tears wouldn't stop. He took me over to the Indians that now were setting with my grandparents and talking. Papa told me not to cry they were family and they wouldn't hurt me. After settling down I set on papa's knee and the Indians started talking to me, one gave me a beaded band (which I still have). Years later I learn that granny had filed for Indian rights, but hadn't rec'd anything before her death. She wasn't turned down or I would have found it. Betty Musgrave g-gdau of John Davis [James Robert Davis first born] told me that Aunt Mary [John's wife]had hired an attorney to get her the Indian rights, but she had died before rec'ing. I have found where a John, Joshua, Joe Davis are on the Indian Rolls. Now Betty and I are tracing back to claim our rights. Any of the Davis that married into the Barnett/Malicoat line, the Barnett's are blood Indians. Mother keeps telling me that when James Robert Davis arrived in Purdy, Garvin Co., OK 1891, he hadn't claim blood because in those days Indians were dirt. You can see the blood in a lot of James Robert Davis grandchildren and great grandchildren. I even see my oldest son's blood in his face. I haven't found with proof that the Davis family is of blood.

Barbara Denton [Henry Alexander Blackwell & Evaline Nancy Davis line] Natural Bridge, AL was to have an old Indian meet with me when I was back there, but never did. I did meet Barbara's brother and he gave me a family picture of that line. Barbara took us to all the old cemeteries and also where Harmon is bel to be buried, and all the land Harmon and his sons owned at one time. In the creek where Harman had his mill, a few pieces are still there. I started down to pickup a piece and I ran into some kind of weed that burnt my legs and had to be treated. I would like to get everyone together and have a headstone placed on where they say Harmon is buried and get the state to declare it a state property. But a mining co. owns the land and had strip mined and refuses to let me do anything. When I get the proof of Harmon having had at least one/ sixty forth blood, I can get the tribes to declare it Indian burial place and it can't be touched. But the funny part is this, all the mining was going on around but they didn't touch where I was told Harmon's grave is.

I'll get off my soap box and let you get back to Jefferson. Ed if I told everything I remember and found, WWlll would start. Do you know the whole story of Harmon's death? Part of it is written in a book, the rest came from ones in ALa.

This I found later in books after two cousin [that had never met] told me the story, so it must be true.

The Tories of the hills of AL were causing all kinds of problems during the Civil War. One night they went to Harm Davis farm, the women and children ran to hide, after they were safe Harm went into hiding also, Tories finally found Harm and when Harm wouldn't tell where he hid his money, they threw a rope up over a limb in front on his house and was abt to hang Harm when Nancy ran out of hiding begging them to not hang her husband, after begging so hard, they took Harm into his home to the fireplace and started sticking his feet into the fireplace, when Harm still wouldn't tell, they finally gave up and fled. [ at this part, it is not known if Judge Parker and some men arrived or not, running off the Tories] Harm's feet were so badly burn he couldn't walk and Nancy cared for him, his feet were so badly burnt, the doctor said he would have to amputate both up to the knees. Harm said no, he would rather die than loose his feet.

I found later in a book where someone told Judge Parker about the raid on Harm Davis place.

When I was told this story, they had my full attention. Heard it from Pearl Davis Cowan age 95, Barbara Denton in AL and read the part where Judge Parker was told of the raid from the book, ' Tories of the Hills'."
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1850 US CENSUS:
29 Davis Harman 52 M Farmer $100 SC
Nancy 49 F SC
Van 24 M Farmer GA
Thomas 22 M Farmer GA
Margaret 20 F GA
Sarah 18 F AL
Jasper 16 M AL
William 14 M AL
Nancy 13 F AL
James 10 M AL
Rachel 8 F AL

More About Harmon Davis III and Nancy Posey:
Marriage: 1819, SC.118

Children of Harmon Davis III and Nancy Posey are:
  1. +William Lea Davis, b. Nov 18, 1835, Winston Co., AL119, d. Feb 06, 1919, Sargossa, AL (a few miles from Prospect)120.
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