CAPTAIN WILLIAM DAVISON/STEAMBOAT DISTASTER / HAWESVILLE, KENTUCKY
N 37° 53.887 W 086° 45.311
16S E 521523 N 4194539
CAPTAIN WILLIAM DAVISON/STEAMBOAT DISASTER in Hawesville, Kentucky
Waymark Code: WM63FX
Location: Kentucky, United States
Date Posted: 03/26/2009
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CAPTAIN WILLIAM DAVISON
Confederate Captain William Davison is buried here. He died March 7, 1865, from a gunshot wound suffered in a firefight with Union Home Guard, February 24,1865, near Patesville during the Civil War. Davison led a band of rebel guerrillas that raided counties from Brandenburg to Owensboro in 1864. The rebels burned the Daviess County Courthouse, January 4, 1865.
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STEAMBOAT DISASTER
Hawesville Cemetery is burial place for thirty~eight passengers of steamboat Reindeer who were killed when a boiler exploded on the Ohio River between Cannelton, Indiana, and Hawesville, March 13, 1854. A gravestone on the northeast edge marks the location where the victims were buried in a mass grave.
Presented by Hancock County Fiscal Court
Marker Name: CAPTAIN WILLIAM DAVISON/STEAMBOAT DISTASTER
Marker Location: Roadside
Type of Marker: Other
Marker Number (for official markers): 2097
Group(s) Responsible for placing Marker:
KENTUCKY HISTORICAL SOCIETY... KENTUCKY DEPARTMENT DEPARTMENT OF HIGHWAYS
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