Mrs. Dessie Lee Davis Dies, Dallas Resident 50 Years

Dallas Morning News
Friday, 8 November 1957, Page 4-2

Mrs. Dessie Lee Davis, a direct descendant of Cherokee Indian Chief Boles and a Dallas resident for 50 years, dies Thursday in a Dallas hospital after an illness of seven weeks.

Mrs. Davis, 80, of 4102 Humphrey Drive, was the widow of T. Jefferson Davis, constable of Fruitdale until his death in 1938.

She was born in Forney, and came to Dallas in 1900. Mrs. Davis was a pioneer member of the Fruitdale Baptist Church, a member of the Order of the Eastern Star, and the Pioneer and Westway Club of the Women’s Benefit Association. She organized the Fruitdale Garden Club and was a past member of the Bonnie Blue Flag Chapter of the Daughters of the Confederacy.

Survivors are four daughters, Mrs. Goldie Tucker, Mrs. Ethel Fisher, Mrs. Jewell Starr and Mrs. Jeffie Allen, all of Dallas; three brothers, Roy Daugherty and Nova Daugherty of Dallas and Jed Daugherty of Fort Worth; and five sisters, Mrs. Edna Fuchs of Houston and Mrs. Bennie McBee, Mrs. Bird Cook, Mrs. Nell McCarthy and Mrs. Allie Jean Moffett, all of Dallas.

Funeral services will be held at 3 p.m. Saturday, in the Fruitdale Baptist Church, 3105 Parker, with the Rev. J. Howard Smith, pastor, officiating.

Burial will be in Grove Hill Memorial Park.