Bexar County Texas Archives News.....THE LIGHT CORRECT. October 13, 1883
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San Antonio Light October 13, 1883
Bob Crockett Vindicates the Light as to the Accuracy of Its Report.

The Granbury Graphic take the LIGHT to task for having asserted that the 
granddaughter of Davy Crockett was in San Antonio, and in distress, in the 
following terms:

“The San Antonio Light publishes an article to the effect that a granddaughter 
of David Crockett’s is living in that city to a destitute condition, through 
circumstances over which she has no control.  And makes a strong appeal to the 
citizens of San Antonio to help her.  The lady should have the help and 
sympathy of those people, as a matter of course, but the statement that she is 
a granddaughter of David Crockett’s is notoriously untrue.  The only 
granddaughters he has in the State are all living in Hood county.”

The Express had also its little word to say on the inaccuracy of the LIGHT.

In commenting upon the Granbury Graphic’s statement Mr. Bob H. Crockett, a 
grandson of Davy Crockett, who is editor of Crockett’s Gleaner, (Arkansas), 
has the manliness to say:

The Graphic is in error.  “The only granddaughters of David Crockett in Texas 
are not all living in Hood county.  The lady alluded to in the SAN ANTONIO 
LIGHT is, we have reason to fear, a sister of the editor of this paper, Mrs. 
Peytona Bell Davis, a daughter of Hon. John W. Crockett.  She married one 
Junius O. Davis of this county and moved with him to San Antonio several years 
ago.  Davis, who, though of good family, has become a drunken, gambling 
vagabond, and when last heard of was in Memphis, Tenn., having, probably, 
deserted his family.  We write this correction of our cousin Ashley Crockett’s 
paper.  The Graphic, ____ our sister, Mrs. Davis, be considered an impostor.  
Of course her situation was unknown to us until some one sent us the LIGHT.  
We have written for the facts and the wants of our unfortunate sister and her 
helpless family will be provided for at once.  We cannot believe the family 
are so destitute as reported because the mother of Davis, who is living with 
our sister, has valuable real estate in this county, and it is incredible that 
she would permit the family of her only child to suffer while she owned 
property, the sale of which would have relieved their wants.  We still hope 
the case is not so bad as reported.”

The San Antonio Directory shows that Junius O. Davis, his wife, and his mother 
Mrs. Lucy H. Davis, were as stated at 202 Goliad street.  They were in 
distress, but it is understood that their wants have been satisfactorily 
relieved.


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