Thomas A. Davis was the sixth child of Titus and Mary Bowen Davis. He was born on June 10, 1849 in Drefach (small village) near Llanwenog, Cardiganshire, Wales. About the year of 1858, T.A.’s father and the family, except one brother and his mother, all joined the L.D.S. Church. 

In the spring of 1863 Thos. A. and the rest of the family, except his mother and the one brother whom he never did see again, left England and came to America. He was 13 years old. After landing in America, they immediately began packing and preparing for the journey across the plains. Late that fall on October 8, 1863, after a long hard trek across the plains, they drove into Emigration Square near Salt Lake City. From there they migrated north to Willard, Utah. There he went to work for a man as an apprentice in the blacksmith business for $1.00 per month. He was 14 years old at this time. After working a couple of years for this man, he went to work for his brother-in-law on a cattle ranch doing farm work and herding cattle in the summertime. He worked for this man for a number of years and then homesteaded a farm of his own. 

On April 10, 1871, being nearly 22 years old, he married Margaret E. Davis, a daughter of Richard and Rebecca of Willard, Utah. They soon made their home on the place that he had homesteaded. They were blessed with 11 children; 7 girls and 4 boys. They lived here for a number of years and in 1887 they sold their farm and moved to Henderson Creek, near Malad, Idaho. Here he bought a ranch that is still in the family. It is owned by his grandson, Glen and Thelma Price. This proved to be a good ranch but a lot of hard work to run it. They had almost a hundred head of cattle and horses and raised hay and grain. They bought it from a man named Henderson whom the community was named after. It had a nice stream of water which came from the foot of the mountain directly to the east. The spring was also named Henderson Creek Spring. 

After settling in Malad Valley, Thomas A. became active in politics. In 1894 he was elected to the Legislature and in 1895 he was elected to the Senate. In the summer of 1897 he received an appointment by President William McKinley as mineral commissioner for Idaho. 

On November 29, 1921, he lost his wife and partner. This made it hard for him to stay on the ranch, so in March of 1922 he sold this place to one of his daughters and her husband, Thos. D. and Blodwen Davis Price. Thos A. moved to Malad and built a new home on the corner where you turn to go down to the depot and just south of the old tabernacle which is now the 2nd and 5th Wards meeting house. On Oct. 29, 1926, Thos A. passed away in his new house in Malad and is buried in his family plot by the side of his wife in the Malad City Cemetery. 

By: Thomas Glen Price who is the son of Blodwen Davis Price who was the daughter of Thomas A. Davis.