Photo by Tom Smith, at Dresden Cemetery, Birti Davis, son of John Barton Davis and Christina his first wife.


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Birti Davis died Aug 20, 1879 in Dresden, Texas.


The inscription reads
BIRTI
Son of
J. B. & C. A. DAVIS
DIED
Aug 20, 1879
**Death record at library shows sex as girl per Cliff Davis who sent information. It is hard to read lettering in photo but it reads Birti on the Grave Stone; there have been several errors on grave stones and I believe this is an error: either spelled Berti or Burti

John and Christina and children moved from Illinois in the Winter of 1878 to the Dresden, Texas area, stopping off in Cass Co, Peculiar MO for a time. They arrived for spring planting in the Dresden, Texas area, and she and two of the children were lost to Typhoid in the fall and winter of 1879. Birti, son of J.B. & C.A. Davis died Aug 20, 1879 a month before his mom and along with Lona Leon and Chrtistina were buried together. Lona Leon Davis was born Jul 19, 1871 and Died Nov 1, 1879 right after his mom passed away. Their grave is under a large shade tree in Dresden Cemetery.

New information from Mr. Clifford L. Davis, my cousin in Lubbock, Texas about Birti Davis quoted from his e-mail, "In a death record for up to 1880 at the library shows Berti as a girl. There is no birth date for Berti, just a death date, don't really know what the sex is." The record at link below shows she was 9/12 months old at time of death, died of typhoid, and was female, and is listed as Berti, and month she died was Aug 1879. Christina's record is next to Berti's.
I found page listing Christina and Berti Davis as well as John Davis (age 20?) at this link
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