Porter Moore Davis, son of Micajah C. Davis and Mary A. Gwadkin, married his first wife in Maury County, Tennessee; to this union six children were born: Walker, John N., Annie P., John William, Matilda J. and Joseph W.
After his wife’s death, Porter married his second wife, Ann Elizabeth Provine between 1855 and 1859; to this union five children were born: Maude, Edgar P., William O., Harry M. and Ella May. 
Porter brought his family along with that of his father to Texas in 1837 and received a land grant.  Ann Elizabeth’s father, W.A. Provine, was one of the first circuit riding preachers in the Grayson County area.  He organized the first church chartered in Sherman by any denomination on October 12, 1851 and was the first pastor of the church, “Sherman Society of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church,”, later known as Trinity United Presbyterian Church in Sherman.  Porter built his family home about six miles east of Sherman on a hill over-looking the bottom lands that Choctaw Creek flowed through. 
Porter M. Davis died in Sherman, Grayson County, Texas on February 21, 1889.

When Porter died in 1889, the property was divided among his children (family biography by Arthur M. Wyrick, History of Grayson County, vol. I, c1979)


(Editor’s note: Hwy 82 now divides much of the original land owned by Porter M. Davis).