William Davenport
Arkansas
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Information on the line was provided by Pris Weathers
(ArkansasTies@ArkansasTies.com)
and Dan Crumpton (
gen@thomson.net ) with
information and photographs by Mary Miller (
marycmiller7681@lycos.com
)and Edna Whitaker (her current email address is unknown at this time), Jann
Davenport ( jd2ok@aol.com) and Betty Sullivan
( Lairgamar@email.msn.com )
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William Davenport , son of John Davenport and Jane, was born in 1820 in South Carolina
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William married Mahulda Crumpton on 30 Jun 1841 in Alabama. They had nine children: Wilson, Joseph, John Polk, Nancy, William, Noah, Harriett, Jane, and Oree.
Wilson Davenport was born in 1844 in Alabama
2 and died in 1923
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Noted events in his life were:
• Military; 15 Jun 1863, Tennessee
3. 21st Cavalry Company B of Tennessee (also know as the 16th, Bell's Brgd - Wilsons, and Horton's run by Col. Polk) He enlisted in Hardin County,
Tennessee and was present on the muster roll for May and June of 1864. He was shown to have been surrendered on May 4, 1865 by General R. Taylor to Gen E.R. Canby and paroled at Gainesville, Alabama on May 11, 1865. Disabled by a gunshot wound.
• Residence; 1865, Aubern, Cannon County, Tennessee
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Joseph Davenport was born in 1845.
John Polk Davenport was born in 1848 in Alabama
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Research Notes: Jann Davenport has his birth listed as 1852. Also note, some
descendants on this line used "Devenport"
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Noted events in his life were:
• Witness; 15 Jun 1901, Pulaski County, Arkansas
3. Gave witness to Proof of service for his brother Wilson Davenport to apply for a confederate pension.
• Residence; 15 Jun 1901, Augusta, Arkansas
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Nancy Davenport was born in 1853 in Alabama
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William Davenport Jr. 5 was born in 1858 in Alabama
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Noah Davenport 5 was born in 1858 in Alabama
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Harriett Davenport was born in 1855 in Alabama
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Jane Davenport was born in 1862 in Alabama
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Oree Davenport was born in 1856 in Alabama
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Sources
1. 1870 United States Federal Census - Bayou Meto, Pulaski County, Arkansas, (www.Ancestry.com.), Image 56.
2. Ibid.
3. Arkansas Confederate Home - Mary E. Davenport, (Record Files of the Arkansas Confederate Home in Little Rock, Pulaski County, Arkansas. Microfilm, Arkansas History Commission.)
4. Email from Betty Sullivan, Jann (Marlar) Davenport,
Edna Whitaker, and Mary Miller to Dan Crumpton, (Copy sent to Priscillia (Brooks) Weathers by Dan Crumpton, April 8, 2002.)
5. Federal Census - 1880.
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