Jesse Kencheloe Davis

The stone says Alabama, but the Gonzales County history behind his family record puts Jesse Kencheloe Davis's birth in Kentucky, to Warren Davis and Molly Kincheloe. He took a land grant in DeWitt's colony in 1832 and married Eliza in Brazoria County in May 1835, less than a year before the campaign. Kemp and Kilman list him among the men who fought at San Jacinto. In 1932 his daughter wrote that his rifle broke in the fight, that he took up a Mexican officer's sword, and that Eliza watched from a tree. The couple raised twelve children.

What the plaque says

Jesse Kencheloe Davis A San Jacinto veteran, born in Alabama, January 11,1802. Died December 28, 1869. His wife Eliza Davis born in Alabama, May 12, 1819. Died January 11, 1875.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Gonzales Memorial Museum — 1.0 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.
• Palmetto State Park — 9.7 mi
  Dwarf palmettos, bogs and a spring-fed oxbow on the San Marcos River, with CCC stonework from the 1930s, a swamp an hour from Austin and San Antonio.
• Spoetzl Brewery — 18 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.
• St. Mary's Church of the Assumption (Praha) — 26 mi
  The mother parish of the Czech settlements around Flatonia, a stone-fronted church of 1895 whose ceiling Gottfried Flury turned into a turquoise garden, with an August 15 feast since 1855.

More markers nearby

• Andrew Ponton — steps away
• Dr. John Turner Tinsley — steps away
• Eli Mitchell — steps away
• William A. Matthews — steps away