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Tell me more about the farmhouse!

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Turkey Creek Farm has been in the Davis family for seven generations. The house was built in 1844, twenty years before the civil war. Corporal Walton Davis, the first Walton Davis was returning to Texas on foot at the wars end when he stopped at the farm then owned by the widow Nix who had lost her husband in the war. He agreed to work for her to get travel money. The two fell in love and married and the rest is history. The driveway to house/farm is the old main road between Commerce and Atlanta. There was a mule drawn ferry at the river and when it was closed the patrons would stay in the small room on the front porch known as the deacons room. They would be served dinner and breakfast by Beth’s great, great, great, grandmother and then sent on their way. The farm was the country house for Luke Davis ( Beth’s great, great grandfather) who lived in Commerce and was a successful businessman. He owned the telephone company, the cotton gin, and the general store as well as several thousand acres of farm land. Over the years the farm was divided amount children and heirs leaving the current old home place and 330 acres to Beth’s great Grandfather Hank Davis. It has remained in tact since then serves as a family gathering spot to this day. Of course the house looked much different when originally built. It was a simple two over two room house with a rear breeze way running to the kitchen. There was a separate smoke house and privy. The house was first added on to when indoor plumbing allowed for a bathroom and kitchen to be attached. The house has been renovated and updated numerous times over its history. Head to the gallery on this wedding website for more pictures of the family and farm.