Henderson County Texas

Wreay & Davis Family

To encourage settlers to come Texas, an act granting vacant public domain pre-emption privileges was approved 22 Jan. 1845.  Many families including Virginia native, William Wreay, his eldest son, Isaac C. Wreay and his son-in-law William Davis applied for and received a total of 707 acres of this land that all joined and was located in Henderson Co. 

William Wreay, his wife Susannah and their young son, Alfred along with William's daughter Naomi and her husband, William Davis and their two children, Stephen Elbert and Martha left Carroll Co. Georgia and settled on this land in 1851.  Isaac C. Wreay and his wife Mary A. and their children also came in 1851 after living in Alabama for a number of years. 

William Wreay was born ca. 1786 and died in Henderson Co. in 1862.  His son, Isaac C. died in 1856 and is believed to be the oldest grave in the Wreay cemetery that originated as a family cemetery on the original land grant. William Davis was born in Tenn. 1829.  Naomi Wreay was born in Va. in 1832.  They married in Carroll Co., Georgia 21 Oct. 1848.

William Davis as well as Alfred Wreay enlisted in the CSA when Texas seceded from the Union along with the other southern states.  William lost his right arm in battle and had obtained the rank of Sergeant when he returned home after the war.  In 1865 he became the Sheriff of Henderson Co.  This was a position he held until 1869.  In 1875 he became Sheriff again and served until 1886.  In 1890 he became the tax collector for Henderson Co. and held that position until his death in 1892.  Naomi had preceeded him in death in 1885.  William and Naomi's other children were George Riley in 1857, Mary Jane in 1860, William Jefferson in 1861, Felix Augustus in 1866, John Wreay in 1867 and Bob Lee in 1870 who died as an infant. 

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