On April 19, 1877, Eugene Davis, Hezekiah's son, married Alice Summey, Abraham's daughter. The date is in Ford's 1920 history, in the entry for Eugene, which records the marriage and says nothing about what it meant. The marker does:
In spite of the bitter rivalry between these two prominent families, Eugene Davis and Alice Summey fell in love and were married. With time, the tensions between the two factions eased.
They married twelve years before either half of the town was platted. In January 1889 Davistown was platted as Shipshewana, and on April 4, 1889, seventy-six days after the plat, Summeytown became the First Summey Addition to Shipshewana.
Hezekiah Davis died in 1891, two years after the plat. Abraham Summey died in June 1900.
None of the four volumes of county history says the town was ever two towns. The marker does, at the corner of Main and Morton, where Davis built his brick buildings facing the depot. The descendants of both families put it there together, and its text is signed Doris Davis.
KPC News reported the unveiling. Doris Davis, a descendant of Hezekiah and the recorder of the family history, had supplied the information on the plaque, and his great-grandson Maurice Davis called the marker "leaving footprints on the sands of time."