Mary Evelyn Moore Davis was an American author. She was a wife of Thomas Edward Davis, an editor of the Houston Telegraph, commissioner to China, a delegate to Democratic national conventions and governor of Oregon Territory.
Background
Mary Evelyn Moore Davis was born on April 12, 1852 in Talladega, Alabama, United States. Her mother, Marian Lucy Crutchfield, whose family had migrated from Virginia to Chattanooga, had two brothers who were colonels in the Civil War, one Unionist, the other Confederate.
Her father, John Moore, was born and educated as a physician in Massachusetts. He went to Alabama to practise medicine, but as early as 1848 he was interesting himself there in the commercial possibilities of iron deposits. A few years before the Civil War he removed with his family to βLa Rose Blanche, β a cotton plantation in Texas.
Education
Mary grew up and educated by private tutors in Texas.
Career
Mary was a precocious child, and many of her fervent war poems appeared in Southern newspapers in 1861-65.
A collected edition of her verse, Minding the Gap, was published in Houston in 1867.
Achievements
Davis served as editor of the New Orleans Picayune.
On October 20, 1874 Mary married Thomas Edward Davis. Her husband after serving during the Civil War as major in the Virginia cavalry, had become editor of the Houston Telegraph. His oldest son, John Lee Davis, rendered distinguished service as a naval officer.
