MORMON MESA - DAVIDSON
                                  Old Mormon Road, Overton, Nevada

                                  Contributed by Patricia A. Scott
                                  Copyright 2004


                                                       R 7/31/2008

  In June of 1869, James Davison along with his wife and son were traveling along the Old Mormon Road
  across the Mormon Mesa, headed for Utah, when they discovered they had little water.  Mr. Davidson
  and his wife remained and sent the son on their horse to get water.

  Several miners were working at the Wash, when on June 18th, a very thin horse wandered in to water.
  Fearing a possible tragedy, they backtracked finding the son, and then further back the parents, all
  had died of thirst.

  These graves were marked on three different occasions, and finally with headstones and a large, metal
  pole cross on the Mesa.

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  NAME                            BORN        DIED


  DAVIDSON, James                 3/22/1805   6/12/1869
  DAVIDSON, Maria Armstrong       2/20/1808   6/12/1869
  DAVIDSON, Joseph                12/15/1856  6/12/1869