Tamar Davis Walker

•January 14, 2026•

by Janet Roney

Once upon a time, about two hundred years ago, a little girl named Tamar Davis was traveling north in a wagon train on the Natchez Trace with her parents and little brother, heading back to their former home in Ohio. Her parents had succumbed to the siren song of Aaron Burr, who was forming a new country in the Mississippi Territory, where they could all have a fresh new start. (Remember? Aaron Burr was Vice-President during Jefferson’s first term as President in 1800-1804, and killed Alexander Hamilton in a duel.)

But shortly after Tamar’s folks arrived in Burr’s brave new world, federal agents showed up, arrested Burr, hauled him off, and charged him with treason. Their dream was over.

Then, one dark night on the trail back home, Tamar and her little brother disappeared. A party of Shawnees seized them when they wandered away from camp. The folks in the wagon train searched for them, but fearing an attack, they soon packed up and left Tamar and her little brother behind.

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