Lewis Cookson Davis was born in Hanover County, Virginia in the year 1757.
He enlisted in the service of his country in 1777 as a member of the Virginia State Troops in Williamsburg, VA. He was innoculated for smallpox in Alexandria, VA. Serving as a Private in Captain Windsor Brown's company in the 1st Virginia State Troops, Davis fought in the skirmishes at Chestnut Hill and Germantown, PA, was one of the sufferers with Gen. Washington at Valley Forge, PA, fought at the Battle of Monmouth, NJ and the storming of Stony Point, NY under Gen. Anthony Wayne. He was discharged from the army in 1780 in New Jersey and moved to Wilkes County, Georgia, where he lived for 30 years. He was awarded a land warrant of 100 acres for his 3 years of military service and, eventually, received a pension in the 1800's

Davis was twice married. The first time in 1783 to Sarah 'Sally' Anderson, daughter of John and Mary Southard Anderson. She was born in 1757, in Virginia and died in Wilkes County, Georgia, august, 1797. Lewis Cookson Davis's second wife was Sarah 'Sally' Perkins whom he married in Lincoln County, Georgia on 14th of October 1798.

Lewis C. Davis and his wife and children then moved to Alabama, where he served as a Baptist minister and was a carpenter. Because of his hard style of preaching, he became known as "Old Club Axe." He died 3 February 1835. Davis and his second wife, Sarah Perkins, are buried on the plantation, three miles west of Autaugaville, Alabama, on what was known as the Old Whetstone Place, later called the Pigford Place.