about 1839, settling near Sulphur River or Boxelder. To this union were born nine children, four boys and five girls. Edmond [Davis] volunteered and joined the Confederate Army. He never married, and died while in the Confederate service. Narcissa Davis married Jim Henry Trimble. Mary Davis married Jim Trimble. Joe Davis married Miss Lucy Carpenter, nee Cox. To this union were born three children, two boys and one girl; Joe, Ira and Martha. Martha married Preston Peek. Joe Davis was born in Red River County in 1847. He has been a lifelong friend and acquaintance of the author. He remembers the author when he was a small boy. Sally Davis married Jim Trimble [same as above?], Abigail married Henry Whiteman, Columbia married Jim Peek.

Mr. Joe Davis has been identified with all the righteous and civic improvements of Red River County. He stands among the best citizens of the early days of Red River County. He is a man of sterling worth as a citizen who is upright and whose character is above reproach from the standpoint of truth and veracity.

[The Collier Family]

Abigail Flemming married Tom Collier. To this union were born five children, three having died while small. Miss Hattie Collier married E. J. Chew and Jim Collier married Miss Lucy Davis of Boggy Springs, Arkansas. Mr. Collier settled on what was then known as Basin's Mill Creek in Red River County which creek ran parallel to the David Crockett trail into Texas through