Misc. Biographical Notes on Brigadier General William George Mackey Davis, C.S.A. File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by Nancy Ragsdale Murphy, murphy1050@worldnet.att.net USGENWEB NOTICE: In keeping with our policy of providing free information on the Internet, data may be used by non-commercial entities, as long as this message remains on all copied material. These electronic pages cannot be reproduced in any format for profit or other presentation. This file may not be removed from this server or altered in any way for placement on another server without the consent of the State and USGenWeb Project coordinators and the contributor. *********************************************************************** Notes typed by Nancy Ragsdale Murphy (grandniece) from handwritten research and memoirs (not dated) of Mary Lamar Davis, granddaughter of Brigadier General William George Mackey Davis, C.S.A. When Civil War was over, Grandfather Davis went to Washington, D.C. where he became a member of a law firm to settle cotton claims in England. The sons, Mellie, Charlie, Bernard (Bunny) were placed in the Episcopal Boys School in Alexandria, Virginia. Aunt Minnie (Mary Lamar) was taken to France and placed in a convent. Don’t know exact dates he was away, but he moved back to Florida where they lived in Fernandina and Jacksonville. Sir James Reed had become interested in Florida lands and Grandfather bought acres and acres of Everglades land for him. I have not yet found that he (Davis) got into the Diston Company who bought the Everglades land, but evidently Grandfather mopped up, for he then, about 1882-84, bought all of Cumberland (deed in St. Mary’s County, Ga.--I have a copy in my papers at home.) It was about the time Papa (George Mackey Davis) and Mama (Adeline Perry deMilly) were married in 1882 or 1884 in December and they went to Dungeness to have furniture the Davises owned shipped back to Virginia. The little marble top table (marble broken) in Burr’s living room only piece of furniture wanted and taken by my parents. The "tabby house," still standing I believe, was a large roomed house where Mama and Papa stayed while there and I recall with fair memory her stories. You have to go to Fernandina and take boat across. The reason for selling the island, before he had ever had the pleasure of living there, to Andrew Carnegie (deeds) was because of the tragic death of their first grandchild "Little Gooly," son of Bernard and Janie Dewson Davis, more later. 8/27/98