George Washington Davis

The revolution cost Davis's family two men. His stepson John E. Gaston and his son-in-law John Kellogg both died at the Alamo in March 1836. Davis stayed in public life: county clerk when the first district court met at Gonzales in 1838, postmaster of Cuero on June 22, 1842, when it was still in Gonzales County, and notary public for DeWitt County from November 10, 1846. His wife, Rebecca, died on December 29, 1846, and was buried under an oak above the Guadalupe. He died on January 30, 1853, and was buried beside her. Descendants maintain the fenced graves.

What the plaque says

George Washington Davis Pennsylvania native George Washington Davis (1797-1853) brought his family to Texas in 1831. He selected a league of land near present-day Cuero in the Green De Witt Colony and became an active participant in the movement toward Texas Independence, serving as a delegate to the Second Convention of Texas in 1833 and as a delegate to the Consultation at San Felipe in 1835. After the revolution, Davis held a number of local public offices. He and his wife, Rebecca (d. 1846), are buried 1.8 miles west of this site. Texas Sesquicentennial 1836-1986

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Chisholm Trail Heritage Museum — 6.3 mi
  A cattle-country museum in Cuero's 1903 Knights of Pythias Hall, telling the Guadalupe Valley's 1866 drive north and the Sutton-Taylor feud that bloodied DeWitt County.
• Spoetzl Brewery — 19 mi
  The brewery a Czech and German railroad town started in a tin shed in 1909, run through Prohibition by a Bavarian who had brewed in Cairo, and then by his daughter.
• Gonzales Memorial Museum — 24 mi
  A 1937 Centennial museum for the Immortal Thirty-two who died at the Alamo, holding the small iron cannon Gonzales calls its Come and Take It gun and the Handbook calls a second one.
• Lavaca County Courthouse — 28 mi
  A limestone Romanesque courthouse of 1897-99 on the square of a town founded by a widow trader, in a county seat that once printed the Socialist Party's state paper.

More markers nearby

• Dr. William Watt White — 2.4 mi
• Site of Cameron, First County Seat of DeWitt County — 3.4 mi
• Site of Friar-Cardwell Stage Stand — 3.7 mi
• Old Chisholm Trail — 3.7 mi