Kentucky:  A History of the State, Battle, Perrin, & Kniffin, 3rd ed., 
1886. Allen County.

WILLIAM T. DAVASHER was born February 23, 1837, in the eastern part of 
Allen County, Ky.  He is the second of six boys and three girls born to 
William and Elizabeth (Calvert) Davasher, natives of Virginia and Allen 
County, Ky.  Mr. Davasher was a blacksmith by trade; immigrated to Allen 
County, Ky., when a lad of nine years with his parents, stopping in 
Tennessee one year.  He owned a farm of 600 acres, also a number of 
negroes; he died in 1876, at the age of seventy-two years.  He was a son 
of John C. Davasher, who was brought from Germany when a child, and who 
was one of the patriots in the war of 1812; was in the battle of New 
Orleans; was a blacksmith by trade, and owned several slaves.  John C. 
was a son of Joseph Davasher, who arrived in America about the beginning 
of the Revolutionary war, and settled near Richmond, Va.; was in America 
but a few days before the declaration of Independence; he immediately 
enlisted, and served all through the war; as a lieutenant he was with 
Francis Marion.  He had been an ensign in the German Army for seven 
years.  He immigrated to Maury County, Tenn., about 1810 or 1812, where 
he engaged in farming until his death; a gold watch carried by his 
great-grandfather all through his seven years' service in the German 
Army and through the entire Revolutionary war, is still in possession of 
a brother of the subject of this sketch. The mother of our subject is a 
daughter of John and Jane (Russell) Calvert, who came from North 
Carolina, and settled on Long Creek, Allen County, about 1805, where 
they entered and improved lands.  John Calvert was a soldier of 1812, 
and was in the battle of New Orleans; was a farmer, and died at the age 
of seventy-two in 1855; he was of Irish desent, and was a son of Frank 
Calvert, who also came from South Carolina to Allen County in an early 
day, and settled on Long Creek.  His latter days were spent on Middle 
Fork; he died at an advanced age.  William T. Davasher received his 
early training at home on the farm.  He remained with his parents until 
his marriage, September 8, 1857, to Minerva Glover, of Allen County, and 
a native of Benton County, Mo.; she was a daughter of Richard B. and 
Jane (Calvert) Glover, who were born and reared in Allen County.  Her 
father was a farmer, and a son of Richard Glover, who married Docia 
Gatewood.  To Mr. and Mrs. Davasher were born eight children, four of 
whom are now living:  William Richard, Theron W., Luther Asbury and 
Micaja Duke.  His wife died December 9, 1884, aged forty-eight years, a 
devoted member of the Methodist Episcopal Church, and a kind, Christian 
woman.  Mr. Davasher, after his marriage, located on the farm he now 
owns of 223 acres, eighty of which are cleared and in a good state of 
cultivation.  He also owns a mill on the river near where he resides, 
and one-half interest in eighty acres of improved land in Benton County, 
Mo., which he has inherited.  He has been very successful during ife, 
accumulating what he has by his own industry.  He was ordained an elder 
in the Baptist Church in 1873 by Elders Carter and Evens; has been 
preaching more or less ever since.  He has been justice of his precinct 
for five years.  Being a strong Union man, and possessing that patriotic 
spirit instilled in him by his progenitors, he enlisted to maintain the 
Union in October, 1861, in Company K, Ninth Kentucky Infantry.  He 
started out as a sergeant; was in the battle of Shiloh, where all his 
officers were killed or wounded; was taken sick, and sent to St. Louis 
Hospital, and November 30, 1862, was discharged from the service.  He 
returned to his home, and as soon as able engaged in farming.  In 
politics he is a Democrat and cast his first presidential vote for Gen. 
MacClellan.

Calvert Carter Devasher Evens Gatewood Glover Marion MacClellan Russell 
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Benton-MO Germany Maury-TN NC SC St._Louis-St._Louis-MO VA

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