Caldwell County MO Archives History .....TILTON DAVIS FAMILY OF KINGSTON AND LEXINGTON 
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TILTON DAVIS FAMILY OF KINGSTON AND LEXINGTON
	Narrator:  Mrs. Minnie Davis Robertson of Lexington

     Mrs. Davis writes about her father Tilton Davis who was here in the first 
days of Hamilton and also lived in Kingston as a lawyer.  Tilton Davis was a 
nephew of A.G. Davis who founded Hamilton and Tilton was the one who rode a 
swift horse to Plattsburg to enter the town site for his uncle and the town 
company.
     At that time, he and his father Thomas Colson Davis were living or near 
in Kingston.  T.C. Davis was commonly called by his second name Colson.  Mr. 
and Mrs. T.C. Davis are both buried in the old Hines cemetery just over in 
Rockford township.  One of their children lies there also.  They were related 
to the Hines family, Mrs. Elizabeth Hines (wife of the old settler Wesley 
Hines) being a sister of T.C. Davis.
     From her father, Tilton Davis, Mrs. Robertson ascertained that her 
grandfather Thomas Colson Davis arrived in Howard co. Mo at an early age with 
his parents, but they do not know where he came from.  Later he went to 
Caldwell co with his brother Albert G.  The sister Elizabeth Hines was already 
there.  He married Mary _, and they had children:  Eliza married Dr. Jones of 
Kingston, Martha married [William A. Moore] Esteb, Lucy married Morris Hill, 
Fannie married George Hill, Jeff Davis and Tilton her father.
     Several children died young, names unrecorded.
     Her father Tilton Davis married Eugenia Ardinger, daughter of John 
Ardinger, one of the original town company of Hamilton who kept stores in 
Hamilton and Kingston at early dates.  There is a street named after him in 
Hamilton.  He was a southern sympathizer at Kingston during the war, and his 
store was headquarters for Southerners.
     After the war, Tilton Davis bought a splendid brick mansion just outside 
Lexington which Gen. Price had used as a hospital in the war.  This house was 
built by Col. Wm. B. Anderson in 1863 when Tilton Davis was living at 
Kingston.  There the Tilton Davis family lived for over 50 years, rearing 
their family in this historic house.  Today it is known to sight seers as the 
old Anderson house.  He died in this house 1916.  It is now used as a museum.
     He had 6 children:  Minnie Robertson, Woodson, Lee, John, Eugenia, and 
Tilton III.  Minnie married Wm. Robertson of Ky. who died 1929.  Tilton 
married Marcia Sellers daughter of Col. Sellers of Wentworth Military 
academy.  They have children Dorothy (Mrs. Gunther), Lucia, Gene, Sandford 
Sellers Davis, who is educational director for C.C.C. and Marcia Mac youngest 
daughter.
     Mrs. Robertson recalls interesting facts about her father Tilton Davis 
who was a young man in the days of Hamilton's birth.  He was a cousin of Ben 
Holliday of Pony Express fame, he was highly educated, very brilliant in 
conversation, and took great delight in reading the classics to his children.  
He was the first prosecuting attorney in Lexington after the Civil War, and 
was licensed to practice in the U.S. Supreme Court and in foreign courts.
     Interview  Summer 1935.



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