Pioneer Sketches (G. W. Cox 1911)
(C. Avis Catalog entry #142)
p. 17
First Child Born in Montague
There was a man by the name of David Avis boarded at our house; he sold groceries and also whiskey. He courted and married a Miss Webb, a sister of J. R. Webb who now lives between Mallard and Forestburg. He moved and lived in a log house that stood west of the court house. There is an old house now where it stood, on the corner of west block of the square. There was born to them a son. I remember going with my mother to see the baby. He was about the first baby I had seen since I was a babe. Some of the readers know Jim Avis, he was the baby. There was four children born to that home, at that place, two boys and two girls. Jim, Frank, Mary and Nanie Bell. In a few years, Avis died, so in the event of time there was another man boarding at our house by the name of C. C. White. When he came here he was old Bro. W. R. Baker's dry goods clerk, and he married the widdow Avis. He went into the mercantile business. He, as may of my readers know, became very wealthy; both men's remains now lie in the old Montague cemetry. The woman is still alive as far as I know.