Sarah Elizabeth "Betty" White Davis
Wife of Nat Hart Davis, Montgomery, TX
The 26-page document below was found among loose papers pertaining to the Nat Hart Davis family when the 22,000 documents in the Gandy Collection were digitized in 2025 by the History Taskforce. The entirety of the collection is being indexed by Family Search and should be available online to everyone soon. The author of the 26-page document is not known, but because of the content, it may have been written by someone in the family of Sarah Elizabeth White, also known as Betty, the wife of Nat Hart Davis. The author of the handwritten notations on the document is also unknown. Some of its information can be verified by entries in the family's Bible. The document's content focuses on their marriage and on members of the White family. It contains information about the deaths of her first two children, burial by a hollow oak and plantings taken from her family home and planted by the graves by Nat Hart Davis. These included lilies, rose of Sharon and hyacinth. A detailed description of their original house (now the Davis Museum in Montgomery) and information about other early residents of Montgomery is included.
This is a true historical look at the lives of many people during those times.
