Champaign County IL Archives Biographies.....Davis, Sarah Jane 
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File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by:
Jean Bushnell jeanb@wf.quik.com May 1998

Wichita Falls, Tx, Newspaper Wichita Falls Times--
Sunday Morning Sept. 12, 1982
Extracted from above a large article of two coluom 
almost the length of the paper.

Widow settled in '78

Burkburnett:

Sarah Jane Davis a widow left home in Illinois with her 
two younger daughters to establish a new home in a hafl-
dugout on the southern bank of Red River.

In 1878, Mrs davis, the 50 -years mother of nine grown 
children and two girls age 11 and 7, left her comfortable
home in Champaign County, Ill., to travel with a group 
of neighbors to Ellis County, Texas.

A year later, Mrs Davis traveled by oxcart to north 
Wichita County where she homesteaded 369 acres on the 
Red River adjoing the four-sixes ranch on the west and 
north.

It is also known that two families, headed by brothers 
named Bowers, traveled with her to Wichita County.  The 
Bowers began their news homes west of the land selected 
by Mrs. Davis, about four miles northwest of present-day 
Burkburnett. 

The younger of the Davis Children , Grace, married James 
H. Upton and moved to Lockett, Texas.  Lillis Davis mar-
ried W. H. Williamson in 1894 and they lived in the 
Clara communtiy until his death in 1897. they had two
children , Carl F. Williamson and Willie Ivey Williamson 
King.

Mrs. Williamson married Alexander A. Morgan in 1900. 
To this marriage also was born two children, Mary Ella 
Morgan Goins and Buster Morgan.  Upon the death of her 
second husband in 1913, Mrs Morgan began the successful
management of her own business. Then in May 1919 oil was 
discovered on her farm shortly ater the opening of 
Burkburnett's Northwest field.


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