Biography of William M. "Buck" Davis and Hester Jane Noe Davis, Lamar, Alabama

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William M. "Buck" DAVIS was married to Hester Jane NOE and they are listed on the 1870 
Sanford County, Alabama, census as living near Detroit. Hester was the daughter of 
Thomas R. (b. November 13, 1806 TN) and Mary (b. abt 1804  TN) NOE, of Sulligent, 
Lamar County, Alabama.  Both of her parents and a doctor who was visiting  were murdered 
in their home on December 1, 1867.   Thomas R. and Mary NOE are buried in the Pine  
Springs Cemetery north of Sulligent.

On July 8, 1861, Buck DAVIS joined Company G, 16th Regiment Alabama  Infantry, which 
was raised in Marion County, and served until the end of the Civil War. 

In about 1873, they moved with their  children from Lamar (Sanford) County to Poteau, 
LeFlore County, Choctaw Nation, Indian Territory. The story of this move was told by 
their daughter, Montie DAVIS PAGE, in an  Indian Pioneer Papers interview, given in 1937, 
online at: 

http://www.rootsweb.com/~okgenweb/pioneer/ohs/pagemontiesd.html 

There were only two other white families were in the area when Buck and Hester settled 
in the square where the Kansas City Southern Railway crosses the Frisco east of Poteau 
(from "The Proud  Heritage of  LeFlore County" by Henry L. Peck).  Buck DAVIS built the 
first ferry boat on  the Poteau River and he and a Sam McKISSACK had the first blacksmith 
shop in Poteau. 

Several other families followed Buck and Hester from Lamar County to LeFlore County, 
Choctaw Nation, Indian Territory, two of which were Buck's younger sister and husband,  
Ophelia DAVIS and John Calloway Monroe MAXEY, and Hester's sister and husband, Dezina NOE 
and  Robert Wilson TURMAN. 

On December 19, 1900, Buck DAVIS was shot and fatally wounded about three miles from  
Poteau on Tarby Prairie while riding his horse.   Before he died, Buck identified  Dave  
Mason, a man he had warned to stay away from his fifteen year old daughter, as the one who  
shot him.

Buck and Hester were the parents of eleven children:  Garret Wilson, Mary Ida, Montie Sella, 
and Lona Della, all born in what  is now Lamar County; and William Claybourn and Grace 
(her twin died at birth) born in Indian Territory.  The other children died as infants or 
when very young.