Captain Daniel C. Davis, for whom Davis County was named when it was formed on Oct. 5, 1850, joined the L.D.S. Church at Council Bluffs, Iowa, and enlisted in the Mormon Battalion in 1846, where he was captain of Company E. After service in Utah, he re-enlisted for six months' service in California. After he was mustered out, he settled on Davis Creek in South Farmington in 1849. He died June 1, 1850, enroute east, 41 miles west of Fort Kearney, Nebraska.