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Cicero Davis

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Cicero Davis

Birth
Walker County, Georgia, USA
Death
11 Sep 1906 (aged 48)
Porum, Muskogee County, Oklahoma, USA
Burial
Fort Smith, Sebastian County, Arkansas, USA Add to Map
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Ambushed and killed about six mi.southwest of Warner Ok. less than two miles from his home. Mack Alfred was tried for his murder but never convicted.
The Porum Range War:
Sometime in the 1880s, four sons of John Davis and Jane Tate---Samuel Tate (Sam), Cicero, John (Jack), and Robert Lee (Bob)---moved to the Cherokee Nation in Indian Territory and settled at Porum in Canadian District. The Davis brothers, in time, built modest homes and prospered as cattle ranchers.
But in 1906, only a year before Oklahoma statehood, a feud started between the Davises and Judge Thomas L. Hester, a wealthy rancher living near the Davis brothers' spread. As the friction escalated into a war of violence and bloodshed...
On the evening of September 11, 1906, Cicero Davis was ambushed and shot dead from his horse as he rode along a dark stretch of road near his home. Mack Alfred was arrested for the murder but was acquitted.
On July 28, 1907 Mack Alfred was shot and killed just before he was to go before the grand jury and testify against some of the Davis brothers in another case involving murder.
On May 4, 1911 Deputy Sheriff Jim Work was shot and killed. Bob Davis, Leonard McCullough and Amon Davis were charged but due to lack of witnesses and insufficient evidence the charges were dropped against Leonard and Amon and Bob was later acquitted.
A total of eight men lost their lives.
Ambushed and killed about six mi.southwest of Warner Ok. less than two miles from his home. Mack Alfred was tried for his murder but never convicted.
The Porum Range War:
Sometime in the 1880s, four sons of John Davis and Jane Tate---Samuel Tate (Sam), Cicero, John (Jack), and Robert Lee (Bob)---moved to the Cherokee Nation in Indian Territory and settled at Porum in Canadian District. The Davis brothers, in time, built modest homes and prospered as cattle ranchers.
But in 1906, only a year before Oklahoma statehood, a feud started between the Davises and Judge Thomas L. Hester, a wealthy rancher living near the Davis brothers' spread. As the friction escalated into a war of violence and bloodshed...
On the evening of September 11, 1906, Cicero Davis was ambushed and shot dead from his horse as he rode along a dark stretch of road near his home. Mack Alfred was arrested for the murder but was acquitted.
On July 28, 1907 Mack Alfred was shot and killed just before he was to go before the grand jury and testify against some of the Davis brothers in another case involving murder.
On May 4, 1911 Deputy Sheriff Jim Work was shot and killed. Bob Davis, Leonard McCullough and Amon Davis were charged but due to lack of witnesses and insufficient evidence the charges were dropped against Leonard and Amon and Bob was later acquitted.
A total of eight men lost their lives.

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