Memories Of Sam H. Davis

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My father was Thompson A. Davis, born June 9, 1834, in Tennessee. Mother was Ally Baucum, born June 2, 1836, in Madisonville, Kentucky. Father was a farmer. There were six children in our family. I was born October 14, 1858, in Tennessee.

In 1875 an uncle and I decided to come West. So, we boarded a steamboat at Memphis, Tennessee, for Cairo, Illinois. Up the Mississippi we came and changed to a train at Cairo for Dallas, Texas. From Dallas we came in a covered wagon. As we drove toward the Territory we met Sam Bass, an outlaw.