Alfred Jackson Davis was born 1837 in Weakley County, Tennessee, the son of John T. Davis and Mary Horton.
John and most of his brothers moved their families to Stoddard County in the early 1840’s. Other related families
 that moved to Stoddard County during that period included the Horton, Lasswell, Majors and Crosser clans.

John T. Davis was a farmer and Southern Methodist circuit rider, and lived in Gasconade and Iron Counties, before
returning to Stoddard County by 1870. John’s first wife died, and he married a Mary Wilson, who died about 1854.
In 1856 John married the widow Mrs. William Ann Spencer (nee McFarland) in Crawford County.

Most of the Davis clan moved west to Webster and Wright Counties, but Alfred stayed and farmed near the
communities of Aid and Asherville. Alfred married Sarah Charlotte Horton 1858 in Stoddard County. By the time the
 Civil War broke out daughters Senoida Florence and Cynthalia Boyd were born, and another child had died at birth.

Alfred enlisted in the 12th Cavalry Missouri State Militia (Union) in 1862. The 12th Cavalry was disbanded in
April 1863 and Alfred was transferred to Company K, 5th Missouri State Militia Volunteer Cavalry as a sergeant.
He was mustered out 4 Feb 1865 with the rank of quartermaster sergeant.

After the War Alfred and Sarah had Mary Charlotte, Rosa, Robert R., Charles Cuthbert, Frederick William and Tommy.

Alfred was a Judge on the Stoddard County Court from 1870 until 1875, but he contracted tuberculosis and his health
began to fail. He loaded the family in the wagon for a move to Texas, where Sarah’s sisters Tabbitha Strong and
Araminta Proffer lived. Alfred’s health quickly degenerated to the point that the family returned to their home near
Asherville, and he died a few days later. He is buried in Harper Cemetery east of Bloomfield, next to the graves of his
 unnamed infant and son Tommie, who died young. After Alfred’s death Sarah moved her family to Cooke County.
She later homesteaded in eastern New Mexico with her daughter Rose and sons Charlie and Fred. She died in 1913
 and is buried near her sisters in Oak Grove Cemetery near Woodbine, Texas.

Senoida Florence Davis married first Henry Harper. They divorced and she married Nathaniel Vice. Cynthalia married
 William Priestly Simpson, and Mary married Charles Messick. Mary died of TB about 1898, and Sarah raised the two
Messick boys. Robert also died of TB when he was 18.

Rose was a school teacher in New Mexico and Texas and never married. Charlie was also a teacher and later a
stockman and farmer in New Mexico, Arkansas and Texas. In 1916, when he was 43, he married Hattie Myracle, one
of his students, who was 18 at the time. They had two boys that were born on the ranch in New Mexico. Fred married
Ethyl Scarvey and was active in politics. He served as Texas Commissioner of Agriculture 1914-1924.