All his life G. C. Davis has spent in Texas, where he was born in Robertson county, on December 31, 1884, and in consideration of his early advantages, or the lack of them, it must be conceded that he has made an exceptional use of such opportunities as came knocking at his door. He is today, by common consent, regarded as the leading real estate operator in these parte, and he is known to be a genuine builder and booster, sparing no efforts to further the progress of his town and county. He was only twenty-two years of age when he first identified himself with real estate activities in Byers. Having been up to that time occupied in the operation of his mother's stock farm in Archer county, the young man proved that he had within him qualities that ever make for success, and he has forged rapidly ahead in the years that have passed.

G. C. Davis is the son of John E. and Mollie (Simmons) Davis, both natives of the state of Georgia. In 1882 the father came to Texas, and all his life he was engaged in farming. He died in 1899, when he was only fifty-one years old, and is buried in Archer county. He met and married his wife in Georgia, and she died in July, 1911, aged about sixty-eight years. She was a lifelong member of the Primitive Baptist church and was a devout churchwoman and a genuine Christian character. Seven children were born to John and Mollie Davis, and of that number G. C. is the youngest.

The public schools of his native community afforded to G. C. Davis such education as he received, and he did not extend his attendance thereon beyond the age of seventeen years. From then until he was twenty-two years of age he remained at home and busied himself with the care of his mother's stock farm after the death of his father in 1899, and in 1906, he came to Byers, here becoming identified with the real estate business in which he has since continued with much success. In addition to that department of his business, Mr. Davis also operates throughout the county as an insurance man.

Mr. Davis is the owner of some exceptionally valuable farm lands in and about the county, and is everywhere recognized as one of the most enterprising and successful young men of the county. Not merely as a coming man, but as one who has already arrived.

A Democrat, as any man should be who writes the initial "C" after the Christian name of Grover, he gives his moral support to the principles of the party, but is not active in the party ranks save as a voter. He is a member of the Commercial Club, and is especially interested and active in any movement planned to further the best interests of Byers, and with a view to aiding in its growth and prosperity. He and his wife are members of the Methodist Episcopal church.

Mr. Davis was married in Wichita Falls, Texas, on June 15, 1907, to Miss Hattie King, the daughter of I. C. King and his wife, residents of Denton, and of an old Pioneer Texas family. They have had two children Edwin CJ., now deceased, and Lucile.

Mr. and Mrs. Davis have an excellent social standing in Byers, where they have a host of good friends who love them for their many excellent traits, and they participate in the representative social activities of the community. – [A history of Texas and Texans, Volume 3 By Francis White Johnson]