Tenn. Code Ann. § 4-13-301: Property conveyed in trust - Appointment of trustees

(a) The tract of land, being the same purchased from O.M. Davis, Jr., in 1927, by the Sam Davis Commission in the name of the state of Tennessee, be and is hereby conveyed in trust to the Sam Davis Memorial Association.

(b) The governor shall appoint, upon recommendation of the Sam Davis Memorial Association, nine (9) persons over the age of eighteen (18) years, who shall constitute the board of trustees of the Sam Davis Memorial Association.