I have been very ill, and do not know if I have missed info or not. Has there been a 2nd Davenport CD made of is there a site to go to and read the info ? I descend from Maria Davenport and Henry Gambill. Doc, I emailed you once to see if you ever have time to do lookups ? My friend Charlotte Casterline is trying to find info on her Stephen Casterline in NJ. Please let me know. Thanks and Be Blessed, Lorene ----- Original Message ----- From: <DAVENPORT-D-request@rootsweb.com> To: <DAVENPORT-D@rootsweb.com> Sent: Wednesday, April 12, 2006 12:00 PM Subject: DAVENPORT-D Digest V06 #21

Dr. Frederick P. Davenport died at 11p.m.in San Antonio's Methoodist hospital Easter Sunday. He fell and broke his hip Saturday morning. You may recall he and family spent many summer vacations chasing Davenport history.

Dr. Fredrick Park Davenport died at 11p.m. Easter Sunday. He had fallen Saturday morning and suffered a broken hip. Services are pending. You may recall he spent many summer vacations searching for Davenport history.

Again, my thanks for this wonderful research that you are doing on the DAVENPORT family. Since my husband descends from Davis Davenport via the only daughter, Ann Davenport who married Thomas Graves, we do not go further into the DAVENPORT lineage. I read every morsel of DAVENPORT history, however, since my husband's history also is deep in the Pamunkey area involving surnames: GRAVES, BARTLETT, HANCOCK, SMITH, and many others via family connections. Clues of interconnected families also bring forth clues to help me with the research of our surnames. Your digging into your roots and sharing your finds is greatly appreciated by this researcher. Thank you. Audrey (Shields) Hancock -----Original Message----- From: JSDDOC@aol.com [mailto:JSDDOC@aol.com] Sent: Wednesday, April 12, 2006 12:53 AM To: DAVENPORT-L@rootsweb.com Subject: [DAVENPORT] Relatives or Naming Coincidences? More Pamunkeys? PAMUNKEY KINFOLKS INTERESTED IN FAMILY HISTORY: Frankly, Cousins, from the responses I've been getting for the past several years I suspect that I've lost most you relative to Pamunkey Davenport Family History, that most of you are interested only in your own lineages and do share my enthusiasm for turning over rocks to expose our Virginia beginnings. Thunders of silence have greeted various discoveries, identifications, and historical revelations in recent years. I expected arguments relative to my identification of the wives of Henry Davenport, Sr. (first wife), of James Davenport, Sr., both sons of Thomas, Sr., of Cumberland, and of Richard Davenport, Gentleman, son of John, Sr., the Bankrupt, but not a peep was elicited. Where has all the fire gone? I'm likely extending my research beyond the patience of most of you, for I have the time and health to keep digging, and I am continually finding new facets of the Pamunkey Davenport history. Here's one recent development that demonstrates how fascinating my diggings in the old records has become. I have such a large data base now that relationships are literally jumping out when surname sorts are made. You'll recall that we identified circumstantially Crotia Mason, wife of John Mason of Caroline County, as a likely daughter of Richard Davenport, Sr., of Caroline, second son of Davis Davenport, our patriarch. John and Crotia Mason lived adjacent to Richard, Sr., for at least thirty-five years, and their son David Mason was the administrator of the Estates of both Richard Davenport, Sr. (1775) and his son David Davenport (1776). John Mason died in 1782. Crotia died in 1783. We've been beating the Crotia name origin horse to death vis-a-vis the Davenport-Kennedy connection over the past five years--and getting nowhere, so when we encountered the following records in Charlotte and Campbell counties, adjoining in west central Virginia south of the James River, we had to ask ourselves if we were experiencing reinforcement of our circumstantial identification of the Mason-Davenport relationship or was this a large chunk of coincidence, to wit: In Charlotte County deed books we found a 1790 deed of gift (all personal property including slaves) from William Mason to his eight children--namely James, John, Crotia Ann, Peter, Barbara, William, Claiborne, and David--with a special singling out of Crotia Ann, obviously his favorite. The deed was witnessed by Thomas Paullet and Thomas Ford. Both Paullet and Ford appear repetitiously in Charlotte records with the Davenports, namely William, Jack Smith, and Richard, sons of John, Sr., grandsons of Martin, Sr. of Hanover, and sons of the three. William Mason was located in the same general neighborhood as were the Davenports, had the same associates. Understand that the Davenport land in Charlotte was in the extreme northwest corner of the county, and when Campbell County was created in 1782, part of the Davenport lands fell into Campbell County, as did some of the Masons also. (In 1845 the Campbell part went into Appomattox County, but that's beyond our interest--for the moment.) No Davenport appeared on the Personal Property Tax Lists of Campbell County before 1796 when Wilson Davenport, only son of Henry, Sr., and his second wife Ann Pemberton, hung out his shingle in Lynchburg and began a law practice. We'll take up his colorful story, fraught with all sorts of contradictions and implications of disinformation, later. For now, we stay with the Davenports of John, Sr., and the Masons. Davenports were not on the Campbell County Personal Property Tax Lists in the 1780s and early 1790s, but they were on the Land List, which made them eligible to sue and be sued in Campbell Court and to be dragooned into bystander jury duty when they happened to be in Rustburg on Campbell Court day. (William, Presley, Jack Smith, Jr., and Richard all did Campbell jury duty in the 1790s.) On 1Mar1786 Richard Davenport, we surmise--the Court record is not specific as to which Davenport, but Richard was the only one among the Charlotte Davenports who had the staying power that this legal mess required, sued Martin Mason, we surmise, for the Court minutes used only surnames relative to cases on the docket, adjudged or tried, apparently for damages. This was the beginning of seven years of continuous litigation--first as "Davenport vs. Mason" in Case, then "Mason vs. Davenport" in Assault & Battery, then "Mason vs. Davenport" in Chancery, and finally as "Mason vs. Davenport" in Damages. The court record is barebones cryptic, but we can deduce much from definitive data inscribed. Apparently, Richard Davenport, who owned well over 1,000 acres had sold a parcel of land to Mason. Mason was dissatisfied with his deed, either did not pay fully or bad mouthed Davenport, prompting Davenport to file the first suit in 1786. Davenport's suit was soon gone. In Nov1787, Mason sued Davenport for Assault & Battery, and got a trial verdict for L10 in damages. Then the big case began, Mason sued Davenport in Chancery (Equity). This went on and on, continued from Court to Court, depositions upon depositions. The Campbell Court recognized that it was hot potato that was heating up the country side and referred the case to the High Court of Chancery in Richmond--which immediately sent it back and ordered the Campbell Court to try the issues. On 2Aug1793 a Campbell jury rendered a verdict that Mason had been shown one tract of Davenport's land and had bought it, but had received a deed for another inferior tract. Davenport moved that the verdict be set aside as contrary to the evidence, which was denied. The money damages had to be determined by another trial, so "Mason vs. Davenport" was continued to get the deposition of James Mason, who was not an inhabitant of Virginia. Davenport apparently settled or he bought the land back from Mason's Executors in 1799 (deed research needed), for "Mason vs. Davenport" disappeared from Campbell docket thereafter. Twelve witnesses, none being Davenports although all witnesses were, save one, from Charlotte County, were certified for payment by the Court, including Thomas Paullet, John Mason, and Crotia Mason. Crotia was the only female. Another witness, Andrew Wallace, had been one of appraisers of the Estate of Jack Smith Davenport, late of Charlotte County, Decd., in 1782. Several of the other witnesses were identifiable as being adjoining landowners to Richard and William Davenport lands that straddled the Charlotte-Campbell line. In 1796 Jack Smith Davenport [Jr.] was a witness for Thomas Ford against James Mason. In another trial at the same Court William Davenport, brother of Richard and uncle of Jack Smith, and Jack Smith were witnesses for Thomas Ford against James Mason. In 1799, a deed from Mason's Executors to Davenport was proved in Campbell Court. In 1804 Richard Davenport was a witness for Robert Jennings against Peter Mason. All of the Davenport-Mason associations in the Campbell Court records were in opposition in one manner or another. Now, were these Davenports, descendants of Martin, Sr., of Hanover, related to these Masons, likely descendants of Richard Davenport, Sr., of Caroline? Were they litigious cousins? Next, I'll tell you about Melchezedick Brame, whose wife Mary was likely another daughter of Richard Davenport, Sr., of Caroline, and I'll introduce you to his grandson of the same name who lived in Meadesville, Halifax County, adjacent to Thomas Davenport (IV), the merchant and later Congressman. John Scott Davenport Holmdel, NJ ============================== Jumpstart your genealogy with OneWorldTree. Search not only for ancestors, but entire generations. Learn more: http://www.ancestry.com/s13972/rd.ashx -- No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.385 / Virus Database: 268.4.1/309 - Release Date: 4/11/2006

PAMUNKEY KINFOLKS INTERESTED IN FAMILY HISTORY: Frankly, Cousins, from the responses I've been getting for the past several years I suspect that I've lost most you relative to Pamunkey Davenport Family History, that most of you are interested only in your own lineages and do share my enthusiasm for turning over rocks to expose our Virginia beginnings. Thunders of silence have greeted various discoveries, identifications, and historical revelations in recent years. I expected arguments relative to my identification of the wives of Henry Davenport, Sr. (first wife), of James Davenport, Sr., both sons of Thomas, Sr., of Cumberland, and of Richard Davenport, Gentleman, son of John, Sr., the Bankrupt, but not a peep was elicited. Where has all the fire gone? I'm likely extending my research beyond the patience of most of you, for I have the time and health to keep digging, and I am continually finding new facets of the Pamunkey Davenport history. Here's one recent development that demonstrates how fascinating my diggings in the old records has become. I have such a large data base now that relationships are literally jumping out when surname sorts are made. You'll recall that we identified circumstantially Crotia Mason, wife of John Mason of Caroline County, as a likely daughter of Richard Davenport, Sr., of Caroline, second son of Davis Davenport, our patriarch. John and Crotia Mason lived adjacent to Richard, Sr., for at least thirty-five years, and their son David Mason was the administrator of the Estates of both Richard Davenport, Sr. (1775) and his son David Davenport (1776). John Mason died in 1782. Crotia died in 1783. We've been beating the Crotia name origin horse to death vis-a-vis the Davenport-Kennedy connection over the past five years--and getting nowhere, so when we encountered the following records in Charlotte and Campbell counties, adjoining in west central Virginia south of the James River, we had to ask ourselves if we were experiencing reinforcement of our circumstantial identification of the Mason-Davenport relationship or was this a large chunk of coincidence, to wit: In Charlotte County deed books we found a 1790 deed of gift (all personal property including slaves) from William Mason to his eight children--namely James, John, Crotia Ann, Peter, Barbara, William, Claiborne, and David--with a special singling out of Crotia Ann, obviously his favorite. The deed was witnessed by Thomas Paullet and Thomas Ford. Both Paullet and Ford appear repetitiously in Charlotte records with the Davenports, namely William, Jack Smith, and Richard, sons of John, Sr., grandsons of Martin, Sr. of Hanover, and sons of the three. William Mason was located in the same general neighborhood as were the Davenports, had the same associates. Understand that the Davenport land in Charlotte was in the extreme northwest corner of the county, and when Campbell County was created in 1782, part of the Davenport lands fell into Campbell County, as did some of the Masons also. (In 1845 the Campbell part went into Appomattox County, but that's beyond our interest--for the moment.) No Davenport appeared on the Personal Property Tax Lists of Campbell County before 1796 when Wilson Davenport, only son of Henry, Sr., and his second wife Ann Pemberton, hung out his shingle in Lynchburg and began a law practice. We'll take up his colorful story, fraught with all sorts of contradictions and implications of disinformation, later. For now, we stay with the Davenports of John, Sr., and the Masons. Davenports were not on the Campbell County Personal Property Tax Lists in the 1780s and early 1790s, but they were on the Land List, which made them eligible to sue and be sued in Campbell Court and to be dragooned into bystander jury duty when they happened to be in Rustburg on Campbell Court day. (William, Presley, Jack Smith, Jr., and Richard all did Campbell jury duty in the 1790s.) On 1Mar1786 Richard Davenport, we surmise--the Court record is not specific as to which Davenport, but Richard was the only one among the Charlotte Davenports who had the staying power that this legal mess required, sued Martin Mason, we surmise, for the Court minutes used only surnames relative to cases on the docket, adjudged or tried, apparently for damages. This was the beginning of seven years of continuous litigation--first as "Davenport vs. Mason" in Case, then "Mason vs. Davenport" in Assault & Battery, then "Mason vs. Davenport" in Chancery, and finally as "Mason vs. Davenport" in Damages. The court record is barebones cryptic, but we can deduce much from definitive data inscribed. Apparently, Richard Davenport, who owned well over 1,000 acres had sold a parcel of land to Mason. Mason was dissatisfied with his deed, either did not pay fully or bad mouthed Davenport, prompting Davenport to file the first suit in 1786. Davenport's suit was soon gone. In Nov1787, Mason sued Davenport for Assault & Battery, and got a trial verdict for L10 in damages. Then the big case began, Mason sued Davenport in Chancery (Equity). This went on and on, continued from Court to Court, depositions upon depositions. The Campbell Court recognized that it was hot potato that was heating up the country side and referred the case to the High Court of Chancery in Richmond--which immediately sent it back and ordered the Campbell Court to try the issues. On 2Aug1793 a Campbell jury rendered a verdict that Mason had been shown one tract of Davenport's land and had bought it, but had received a deed for another inferior tract. Davenport moved that the verdict be set aside as contrary to the evidence, which was denied. The money damages had to be determined by another trial, so "Mason vs. Davenport" was continued to get the deposition of James Mason, who was not an inhabitant of Virginia. Davenport apparently settled or he bought the land back from Mason's Executors in 1799 (deed research needed), for "Mason vs. Davenport" disappeared from Campbell docket thereafter. Twelve witnesses, none being Davenports although all witnesses were, save one, from Charlotte County, were certified for payment by the Court, including Thomas Paullet, John Mason, and Crotia Mason. Crotia was the only female. Another witness, Andrew Wallace, had been one of appraisers of the Estate of Jack Smith Davenport, late of Charlotte County, Decd., in 1782. Several of the other witnesses were identifiable as being adjoining landowners to Richard and William Davenport lands that straddled the Charlotte-Campbell line. In 1796 Jack Smith Davenport [Jr.] was a witness for Thomas Ford against James Mason. In another trial at the same Court William Davenport, brother of Richard and uncle of Jack Smith, and Jack Smith were witnesses for Thomas Ford against James Mason. In 1799, a deed from Mason's Executors to Davenport was proved in Campbell Court. In 1804 Richard Davenport was a witness for Robert Jennings against Peter Mason. All of the Davenport-Mason associations in the Campbell Court records were in opposition in one manner or another. Now, were these Davenports, descendants of Martin, Sr., of Hanover, related to these Masons, likely descendants of Richard Davenport, Sr., of Caroline? Were they litigious cousins? Next, I'll tell you about Melchezedick Brame, whose wife Mary was likely another daughter of Richard Davenport, Sr., of Caroline, and I'll introduce you to his grandson of the same name who lived in Meadesville, Halifax County, adjacent to Thomas Davenport (IV), the merchant and later Congressman. John Scott Davenport Holmdel, NJ

I am new to this list and currently researching information for my GGGG Grandparent's. William Davenport B: 1835 SC. Married: M.S. Unknown, Lived in Anderson County, SC. Their Daughter is my GGG Grandmother Emma E, Davenport B:1858 SC. Married Ira J. Owens, lived in Anderson County, SC. Their daughter is my GG Grandmother Claudia Bell Owens B:06, Jun 1885 Belton, SC D:26 Jan 1959 Belton. Married: Robert T. Kelley of Belton, Anderson County, SC. They are buried at Cedar Groves Baptist Church Cemetery in Belton, (Cheddar), Anderson County, SC. Anyone connecting to these lines, I would like to hear from you. Sincerely, Rebecca Lynn Kelly _________________________________________________________________ Express yourself instantly with MSN Messenger! Download today - it's FREE! http://messenger.msn.click-url.com/go/onm00200471ave/direct/01/

Mary Patsy Berry's husband, Jesse Wyatt Hewell was the son of William Hewell and Frances Jouette Davenport (thus the Davenport name). Frances Jouette Davenport was the daughter of James Davenport and Frances Jouette. James was the son of Martin Davenport and Dorothy Glover. Frances Jouette was the daughter of Matthew Jouette and Susannah Moore. (All of these generations are in VA). The Jouettes were French Huguenots who came to Virginia by way of England and NJ and DE. Jesse Wyatt Hewell and Martha Berry daughter Mary Susan married Jesse Holloway Heard. So I not related to myself For Martin and Dorothy Glover Davenport son Thomas married Dorothy_ Their daughter Mary married William Wiseman my ancestor Jesse H. Heard father is John and Elizabeth Holloway Heard John parents are John and Mary Meador Heard my ancestor. Janet Ariciu http://worldconnect.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?db=monkeys

PAMUNKEY DAVENPORTS & OTHERS INTERESTED: In Pamunkey research, as well as among genealogical buffs of other families, we're sure, we often encounter slavish, uncritical acceptance of memoirs, oral history, and second person recalls of what Aunt Sophie said. The quality of these sources vary widely, so all such should be vetted before taken as Gospel. Over the past eight years of the Pamunkey Davenport project, we have had to challenge two sacred cows (not a good metaphor in this instance, for it has a double entendere nature, i.e., a double meaning, one of them of indecorous connotation), namely the (1) Ann Pemberton Davenport's Bible record of 1840, and (2) Miss Rachel Hendricks Davenport's recall interview of 1892. We addressed Miss Rachel's "facts" and made challenges thereto in the first Pamunkey Chronicles published on CD in 2001. We now find it necessary to nitpick Ann's Bible record, namely an extract of her and Henry Davenport, Sr.'s marriage data and birthdates of their seven children, namely one son, Wilson, and six daughters. The document has survived because it was submitted with Ann's petition for a Revolutionary War widow's pension in 1840, and has ended up in the National Archives. Ann did not get the pension, for she could not prove Henry's military service, (but eligibility for Henry's descendants for the DAR and SAR are easily established--he was a documented provisioner for both Continental and State troops). The pension rejection was moot, for Ann died in her 50th years of widowhood shortly after she filed the petition. Without engaging in a pros and cons as to whether Ann meant King William County or King William Parish (eastern Cumberland County) as the location where her and Henry's bans were read, we note an eyebrow raising situation at the outset of Ann's list of births, to wit: Wilson Davenport, eldest child and only son, recorded as born 26Oct1772. Henry's and Ann;s bans were read on 12Dec1770, so they were likely married shortly thereafter. No eyebrow raising there, 20 months between bans and Wilson's birth. But there are only 6 months and 14 days between Wilson and his sister Mary, who was born on 9May1773. If Wilson's birth year had been 1771, it would have been comfortable gestation-wise for both he and Mary, but it still would not have taken Wilson out of the woods relative to anomalies of age when he was undertaking legal roles in the late 1780s-early 1790s. On 23Feb1789 Henry Davenport, Sr., for 20 Shillings sold his son Wilson all of Henry's personnel property, including 11 slaves, 7 horses, all other livestock and personal property. If the Bible record is correct, Wilson was then 16+-years-old, meaning that he could not have taken legal actions for himself. Such an action put Henry's assets in limbo, did not make sense. The Personal Property Tax List for Cumberland County in 1789 included Wilson, charged with 1 White Tithe, 4 Slaves, and 4 Horses. He was not identified as a "minor" as customarily done when a man of less than legal age was assessed. If Wilson was considered of legal age in 1789, he was born in 1768, which conflicts mightily with the birthyear of Henry Davenport, Jr., Henry, Sr.'s youngest son, likely youngest child, in his first family by Sarah, likely a Terry. But we've got more Wilson anomalies to consider before we get into a wrangle as to which was older, he or Henry, Jr., and the implications thereof. On 27Feb1792 in Cumberland Court, Henry, Sr., having died 9Dec1791 in Buckingham County, Wilson Davenport was appointed guardian to his six orphaned sisters, with Walter Keeble as his security. Two apparent anomalies to rationalize: (1) Henry, Sr., had died in Buckingham County, having created a Life Estate for his Widow Ann, was surely probated in Buckingham--so how, why did the Cumberland Court have jurisdiction over the orphans, all of whom were surely living with their mother in Buckingham? (2) Guardian Wilson, if Ann's Bible was correct, was not yet age 20--so how could he act for his six orphaned sisters when legally he could not yet act for himself? Legal facts and circumstances strongly indicate that Wilson was at least two-to-three years older than his Mother had recorded in the Bible. There are more instances, from Court records in Halifax, Powhatan, and Campbell, where Wilson practiced Law beginning mid-1795, indicating that Wilson was extremely precocious as a lawyer or was older than that Bible record. Without concluding Wilson's story, let's switch to Henry Davenport, Jr., the tail end of Henry, Sr.'s first family. On 26May1784, Henry Davenport, Sr., was indicted by a Cumberland Grand Jury for concealing one Tithe, namely his son Henry. There being no earlier of evidence of Henry, Jr., we conclude that Junior had only recently come of age, i.e., become age 16 and liable for a tithe, i.e., poll tax, and Henry, Sr., had not added him to his list of taxables within the six months grace period allowed by Law. It was a slap on the wrist kind of indictment. Henry, Sr., quickly made it right by putting Junior on the tax rolls. So, Henry, Jr., the last of Henry, Sr.'s brood by first wife Sarah, was born c1767-68. Wilson Davenport, eldest of Henry, Sr.'s brood by second wife Ann, was born in late 1772, according to the Bible, but Court records indicate that Wilson had to have been born at least two-t0-three years earlier, meaning probable birth years of 1768-69, giving us all sorts of complications, not the least of which is Henry, Sr.'s and Ann's bans of Dec1770. Later records indicate that Wilson was the guy who created Henry, Sr.'s life estate for Widow Ann, which engenders an even older age concept for him. Certainly, there was keen legal manipulation whereby Henry, Sr., totally disinherited the children of his first family, two sons and five daughters, at least, surviving when Henry, Sr., died. There's a major story relative to what the children of that first family did, all of which is documented in the Further Chronicles. Wilson died in January 1807 in Richmond, having been elected to the General Assembly from Campbell County. He had a widow, but no children. Henry, Jr., we think, was never more than an overseer or a man who worked for wages. His first wife was Ann Davenport, a first cousin and youngest daughter of James Davenport, Sr., Henry's father's eldest brother. His second wife was Jane Burnley. Both wives were married in Halifax. Henry, Jr., we think (Census enumeration age doesn't jibe with what it should be, for Henry, Jr., could not have been born after 1770), is last found in Halifax in 1830, Census and a niece's marriage bond (sister Drusilla Davenport Donaho's daughter). All of Henry's surviving first family children, except James who had gone off before the Revolution, moved from Cumberland to Halifax after being disinherited. John Scott Davenport Holmdel, NJ

PAMUNKEY DAVENPORTS & OTHER INTERESTED: Washington County, Virginia (WCV) Tax Lists go back to 1782, but the first Davenport to be listed thereon was in 1786 when Simmes Davenport, 1 White Tithe, 1 Slave, 2 Horses, and 4 Cattle was listed on John Lowery's List. In 1787, Anthony Davenport was on David Carson's List, same assessment, minus one cattle. This was Anthony Simmes Davenport, a son of Abraham Davenport of Berkeley County, Virginia, now Jefferson County, West Virginia. Anthony was an ALTONA DAVENPORT, a Revolutionary veteran who took his Bounty Land in the Virginia Military District of Ohio. He left Washington County and moved north of the Ohio River after the Spring of 1788. In 1789 a William Davenport was on Walter Preston's List, assessed for only one horse, no tithe, suggesting that he was excused from the tithe for one reason or another, was a man of little worth. William was still on Preston's List in 1792. There were no Davenports on Washington Lists in 1790. The 1791 lists on microfilm are too light to read (at least for these old eyes), but others who have provided data from WCV lists offer no readings for 1791. In 1792, David Carson listed Joseph Davenport and assessed him for 1 White tithe, 2 Horses. This Joseph, we believe, was the Joseph associated with the Cumberland/Buckingham Davenports. We would point out that Milly Davenport, eldest daughter of Henry, Sr., and Nancy Ann Pemberton, was married to John Lee in Washington County on 6Sep1791. Joseph Davenport was assessed March-April 1792. Walter Preston did not list any Davenports in 1792. (We have noted that Milly was 17/18-years-old and a maiden in 1791, would hardly have been traveling more than 200 miles from her home in Buckingham by herself, and if John Lee had gone to Buckingham to fetch her, social mores would have required him to marry her there before carrying her off to the Southwest Virginia boondocks.) In 1793, Walter Preston charged William Davenport with 1 horse, no tithe (same as 1789), and David Carson charged Joseph Davenport with 1 tithe, 2 horses (same as 1792). In 1794 David Carson assessed Joseph Davenport the same as previous years and Osborn Davenport, proven son of Julius Davenport of Thomas, Sr., and his wife Mary Noell, was assessed one tithe and one horse. By assessment dates, Joseph and Osborn lived in close proximity. There were no other Davenports assessed in that year. In 1795 David Carson had been replaced by John Stewart as assessor in the Lower District. Stewart used a watered-down ink in recording his assessments. All are now so faded as to be unreadable. Walter Preston still was assessor for the Upper District. He listed William, Joseph, and John Davenport, all assessed in close proximity as men of little property. John was assessed for his tithe and two horses. William and Joseph were charged with one tithe each. These three Davenports, we believe, were sons of Glover Davenport and grandsons of Martin Davenport, Sr., of Hanover. After the Revolution, Joseph and William joined their father in Bedford (Franklin after 1785), then collecting youngest brother John were together in Patrick County before moving west across the Blue Ridge to Washington County. We have no difficulty in keeping Glover's Davenports separate from Julius' Davenports, for they were never in the same taxing district--so far as we could determine. We regret that John Stewart was too cheap to use good ink, for most of the family of Julius Davenport of Buckingham, if not Julius and Mary themselves, appear to have moved to Washington County in 1794-95, joining Joseph and Osborn. In 1796 there was a sizable group of Pamunkey Davenports listed in the County. Matthew Willoughby had succeeded Walter Preston, and listed William, Joseph, and John [all of Glover], still as men of little or no property. John had one less horse. John Stewart used good ink this year, listed Osborn, Julius [the father], Thomas, John, Joseph, and Clayborn. All were assessed one tithe, meaning no sons of age 16 and older. Further, Osborn, Thomas, Joseph, and Clayborn were assessed for horses. Thomas had two. The other three had one. Joseph was in the Julius family cluster. Only Osborn was assessed on a day other than the day that his father, brothers and Joseph enjoyed with John Stewart. (Virginia assessors after the Revolution were required to see for themselves, no longer took the Tithable's word for what he/she owned--as was true in Colonial Times, were required to list the date of their viewing said assets. If the assessor--called a commissioner--did all of Julius' family in one day, the Davenports were living close together. Osborn was living apart, for he was assessed two days before the others.) From this time on there were Davenports in both the Upper and Lower Districts of Washington County. Joseph, William, and John of the Upper District were gone after 1798, but a James and John were there later, and a Joseph was back in 1803. Joseph of the Lower District, who was settled among the Julius Davenport family, was gone after 1802. Whether he was the Joseph in the Upper District in 1803, we cannot tell. In the years 1804-06, a Joseph Davenport was tax listed in Buckingham County. The Henry Davenport Estate/Ann Davenport was not assessed during those years. The assets charged Joseph Davenport in Buckingham were the same assessed to the Henry Estate or Ann in other years. Whether coincidence, we know not. Ann still had minor orphaned daughters of Henry in the first decade of the Nineteenth Century. We have examined the possibility that Joseph of WCV was Joseph, eldest son of James Davenport, Sr., of Halifax, eldest brother of Henry, Sr., and Julius, all being son of Thomas, Sr., of Cumberland. The mystery remains as to what happened to Joseph of James, Sr. Going into that story would take more time and space than currently available. Joseph of James, Sr., we believe, is a possible for the unidentified Joseph preceding and living among the Davenports of Julius in WCV, but we need to get a better handle on the WCV Davenports, fore and aft of Buckingham, before looking elsewhere. Joseph of James, Sr., will still be there. John Scott Davenport Holmdel, NJ

This is in response to Doc's message involving a Joseph Davenport and his discussion of Henry Davenport, Jr., son of Henry, son of Thomas Davenport, Sr., son of Davis. JOSEPH DAVENPORT The situation regarding Joseph Davenport appears to be the way Doc analyzed it with him being a son of Julius Davenport, unless somehow Joseph could be the missing Joseph who was a son of James and Catherine Davenport. Their son Joseph was gone from Halifax County, VA, in 1780 when James Davenport made his will. We have surmised that he died, perhaps in the Revolution, but did he return from it and settle someplace other than Halifax County? Washington County is definitely a ways from it. Perhaps he went there before Julius' family and they settled near him? We need to find tax lists for the 1780s. Did they have them for Washington County in 1780s? HENRY DAVENPORT, JR. I have it figured out that Henry must have been born between 1763 and 1768. If his father disguised him as a taxable in 1784, this is my conclusion. Henry had to be at least 16, or was it 21 in 1784? We know that Henry was of age when he married Anne Davenport, daughter of James and Catherine, in Jan 1791. It is probable to me that Henry could have been a few years younger than his bride. We know she was at least 18 when she married because she signed her own consent. Anne Davenport did not seem to be a minor child when her father, James Davenport, died in 1780. This places her birth prior to 1760-62. She was not born in 1770. For one thing, her mother Catherine would have been too old. Catherine's other children were born much earlier. Henry Davenport's first child, Wilson, with next wife Anne in 1772 was at least four years younger than Henry, Jr., the way I see it. The problem is that the 1810 and 1830 census records for a Henry Davenport, who supposedly was this same Henry, appear to have been for a younger Henry Davenport. Is there a problem here? Did Henry decide to call himself younger in both censuses since his next wife was younger? This is a little strange... Jane Beekman Muncie, Indiana

PAMUNKEY DAVENPORTS & OTHERS INTERESTED: Have any of you encountered in your research the Joseph Davenport who was on the WCV Personal Property Tax Lists (PPL), 1791-1802, and then, possibly, was the Joseph Davenport who was on the Buckingham PPL, 1803-05, seemingly sharing the assets of the Widow Davenport and the Henry Davenport Estate? The WCV Joseph appeared the same year that Mildred Davenport, eldest daughter of Henry Davenport, Sr., and Ann Pemberton married John Lee in WCV. If Ann's Bible is correct, Millie was age 18, making her a maiden and several hundred miles from home when she married in 1791. She would hardly have gone to WCV by herself, so the concurrent appearance of a Joseph Davenport on the WCV PPL with Millie's marriage year suggests commonality. Joseph appeared on the WCV PPL consistently, and when the identified sons of Julius and Julius himself arrived in WCV, they were all assessed either adjacent to or in the same neighborhood as Joseph. This nearness is deduced by the dates of assessments. When the assessor made his personal visits to inspect the assets of a tithable on the same day or next day, year-by-year, one can assume that the various Davenport tithables were living in close proximity, and if Joseph Davenport consistently appeared within such a cluster, as he did, a family relationship is suspected. The story line, based on the PPLs, is that the Buckingham Davenports joined Joseph in WCV, settled near him--history not encountered in any WCV Davenport narrative heretofore. Whether the Joseph taxed in Buckingham was the same Joseph who had spent the decade or so in WCV earlier, we know not, a West to East move goes against the grain, but the Buckingham Joseph appears to have been taxed for or shared the assets taxed as belonging to the Henry Davenport Estate, meaning the Widow Ann. (Ann possibly was difficult to work for, Henry Davenport, Jr., her stepson, apparently made two different passes at the job, but stayed no more than, or less than, two years each time. Ann was widowed for fifty years, so there was ample opportunity for all interested to have a turn at helping with the Henry Davenport Estate.) Thus far, we have encountered no unidentified Joseph Davenport among the Cumberland Davenports. Joseph, son of Thomas, Sr., hence an uncle to the children of Henry, Sr., and Julius, died in 1770-71, leaving no wife and no children. Joseph of WCV, if of the Thomas, Sr., line, would have had to have been a son of Julius, for Henry, Sr., already had two sons competing for birthdates in the 1770-71 or thereabouts time widow, namely Henry, Jr., by first wife Sarah Terry, and Wilson, by second wife Ann Pemberton. We surmise that a Joseph of Julius, if such existed, would have been born c1770-71, possibly a namesake for Julius' deceased brother Joseph, and would have been younger than Thomas of Julius, but older than Jonathan Noel and Julius Terry, the youngest sons of Julius and Mary. This is pure breadboarding--We're speculating a son lineup for Julius and Mary Noel Davenport as Claiborne, Osborne, Thomas, Joseph, Jonathan N., and Julius T. in that order. Any thoughts or data otherwise or corroborative? John Scott Davenport Holmdel, NJ

List, I am a member of the Cheshire list and recently there was a request for information on an Ann Davenport, born about 1830 in Marton, Cheshire. There was a lengthy and informative response by Allen Peterson, which I thought might be of interest to anyone searching for this line. So with Allen's permission, I posting his response below. Bill Davenport >wbdave@aol.com Original request: -------------- "Searching for information on Ann DAVENPORT, born about 1830 in Marton, Cheshire Found in 1866 married to Robert BAILEY, with son James Henry, in Cheetham, Manchester On 1881, they are at Broughton, Salford" --------------- Allen's response: --------------- Here's some possibilities: Since Ann Bailey was shown as age 50 in the 1881 census on 6 Fawcett Street, Boughton in Salford Lancs, it would suggest that she was born about 1831. The census says that she was born in Marton. A batch number search in the IGI (batch #7410113) records the following as children of Daniel and Rachel Davenport: Elizabeth d of Daniel & Rachel Davenport c 1 Aug 1830 Hannah d of Daniel & Rachel Davenport c 1 Apr 1832 *possibly your ancestor Richard s " " " c 3 Aug 1834 Edna d " " " c 14 July 1839 Charles s " " " c 22 Aug 1841 Harriet d " " " c 4 Aug 1844 The 1881 census also records the following: Marton in Prestbury John Davenport 52 born Congleton Brickmaker Betty " wife 41 born Northwich John " son 12 born Siddington Hannah " dau 9 born Marton Florence " dau 6 " " Margaret " dau 4 " " Frank " son 11 mo " " Daniel Davenport Father 75 born Somerford Booth Cheshire Retired Labourer *possibly your ancestor I think Daniel Davenport the father, age 75 in 1881, was possibly the same person as the Daniel listed above as the father of Hannah christened in 1832. This Hannah may be your Ann Davenport born about 1831 and christened 1 April 1832. The problem with the above analysis is this: There was another Hannah born to Charles and Judith Davenport and christened 18 July 1830 in Marton (batch #7410113). Here are Charles and Judith's children in addition to Hannah: Richard c 16 Sep 1832 Ann c 24 Aug 1834 Edna c 4 Sep 1836 James c 23 Dec 1838 Jonathan c 14 mar 1841 George c 12 may 1844 Richard c 2 Jun 1848 By my way of thinking the Hannah christened in 1830 must have died because there was another Hannah (Ann) christened in 1834. Since your Ann (Hannah) indicated she was born in 1831, her age does not fit well with the Ann christened in 1834. So, I would tend to think that the Hannah christened as the daughter of Daniel and Rachel in 1832 is possibly your ancestor. Using the batch numbers again (7410112) these were the children of Thomas and Mary Davenport: Thomas c 11 Nov 1798 Marton William c 22 Mar 1801 " James c 4 Sep 1803 " Daniel c 9 Feb 1806 " *possibly your ancestor Daniel christened in 1806 fits nicely as the Daniel listed as the father of John Davenport of Marton in the 1881 census, being 75 years old born in Somerford Booth, which I think is near Marton. I would order the parish register index for Marton by Congleton, LDS Fiche #6906860 and 6906861, to verify the above IGI references. I would then order the PRs of Marton LDS Film #1656603 to fruther verify the index above. Perhaps there will be more information in the actual PRs vs the Index I would order the Land Tax Assessment LDS Film #1564458 to see if I could find the Davenport family in Marton. They may have not been proprietors, but they would still have been paying the taxes on the home they were leasing at least. This record runs from 1784 to 1831 and you might find both Daniel and Thomas living close-by. Order fiche #6343436, which are the monumental inscriptions for St James and St Peters churchyards. Look for the family burials. There were two admons filed that you should probably order from the Cheshire will site: Admon - Thomas Davenport Congleton Widower 1809 Admon - Thomas Davenport Congleton Joiner 1845 *this one is of interest because Robert Bailey (Ann's husband) was shown to be a joiner in the 1881 census at Broughton. Hope this makes sense, Allen Peterson

Whit: While James Pemberton appears in Campbell County records in 1795, a year before Wilson Davenport first appeared by qualifying to practice Law in Campbell County in Aug1796, he, as yet (into mid-1799), has not appeared in Court records. Once Wilson appeared, he's kept things stirred up in Court. First, he got into a fight in Court with another attorney, with the Court placing both under Peace Bonds. Then, later, he got fined $25 for Contempt of Court. Shortly thereafter, he created a disturbance in Court and was put under a Peace Bond for $1,000 (a huge penalty sum in those days), but his two securities were both magistrates who had sat on the Court that put him under bond--so he was regarded redeemable. Throughout all this, the Court appointed and reappointed him as a Commissioner for the Inspection of Tobacco Warehouses at Lynchburg. If Ann's Bible record is right, which we know it isn't, Wilson was not yet age 30 when all this was occurring. This was a guy I would have liked to known--nothing bland about Wilson, son of Henry and Ann. More anon. Doc

Kinfolks & Others Interested: The subject of dynamiting tree stumps having crept into Davenport genealogy, I seek Nevada Jack's forbearance in my relating a stump story. Back in the early 1950s I bought an upstate Illinois weekly newspaper named the Tiskilwa Chief and thereby found myself regarded as a fool by the folks in Tiskilwa who thought I paid way too much for the one-horse, lame at that, country weekly newspaper with less than 600 circulation. Along with the paper I assumed the reputation of my predecessor and the assumption that I, like he, was devoid of common sense. Whatever, Tiskilwawans' opinion was, said predecessor went on to be a full Professor at the Medill School of Journalism, Northwestern University, from whence he retired and is since dead. My predecessor, who we shall call Ward, for that was his first name, was a city fellow by birth and raising, had got into country weekly publishing and editing because it was idealized among journalism aficionados back in those Depression-WWII days. I was told that Ward had difficulty driving a nail and was totally nonplused when it came to understanding the differences between screwdrivers. Whatever, home-wise Ward had a fairly large stump of a long dead oak in his large front yard and, being a Better Homes & Gardens (it was going strong back then) reader and landscape oriented, the stump's presence as an eye sore irritated him daily as he drove or walked past it. Irritated to the point of wanting it gone, he decided to remove it. He asked around, got quotes from some of the locals--all of whom didn't hesitate to take advantage of his ignorance in their pricing (I encountered the same consideration), and elected to dig out the stump himself. The locals then happily gave him advice freely. Dig out around it, they said, then break it loose with dynamite, and then pull it out with a tractor. Made sense to Ward, so he dug out around the stump to where it looked like only the tap root remained, and, having been instructed as to the amount of dynamite needed (a small charge, no more than a stick or so) and the art of placing and setting off a charge, he was ready to go--in the presence of large crowd of locals, all back a safe distance--they thought. Ward waved a red flag to indicate that he was ready to set off the charge (the locals had really done a job on him), when Gib Johnson, local jack of all trades and master of most them, had a twinge of conscience. "Better move your car," Gib yelled. Ward's car was sitting in his driveway, no more than 20 feet from the stump. Ward dropped his red flag, thanked Gib, and moved his car to the street in front of a next door neighbor, 100 to 120 feet away. Just in front of his increasing crowd of spectators. Ward waved the red flag again. Everyone stuck the fingers in their ears, and Ward pushed the plunger down. There was a blast and the stump came free. Clear out of the hole and his yard and dropped right on top of his car 100 feet or so away, scaring the Hell out of a number of the locals who were spectating nearby. Either Ward had used stronger dynamite than he thought or he had placed the charge wrong, for he needed no tractor to drag the stump out afterwards. He didn't total the car, but he had little headroom left. That wasn't the best Ward story. All houses in Tiskilwa were on septic tanks, which had to be pumped out from time to time. Ward's house was in low lying area and had a leaky lid on his septic tank, and the miasmas of the long, hot summers tended make things a bit stinky. There was a party for Ward's wife's Church group on a fine summer evening, and the septic tank aroma was getting inside the house. Ward took it on himself to do something about the stink. Believe it or not, he thought of burning a match, a common remedy, only he used a burning newspaper, and he took the lid off the septic tank. It was the biggest methane explosion in the history of Tiskilwa and what it did in blow backing the sewer system into Ward's house and to the lady occupant of the throne at the time, is still recounted with hilarity in the Bureau Valley. I was a dull tool humor-wise compared to Ward. I built the Tiskilwa Chief into the Bureau Valley Chief and 5,000 countywide circulation before I moved on to metropolitan dailies with the Scripps-Howard Newspapers. Today, the Bureau Valley Chief is still in Tiskilwa, circulation 650, including me. The locals surely have stories about me, but I doubt if I exceeded Ward in anecdotes. John Scott Davenport Holmdel, NJ

Denise: As to what "grubbing" means, today it means digging in the ground, to work hard, especially at something menial or tedious. Back in Colonial days it meant digging out stumps of trees and bushes when clearing land for planting. Today, we either hog stumps out with earthmovers, use stump grinders, or use dynamite. Our Colonial ancestors grubbed with shovels, hoes, and axes, or girdled, dug out, and aged the stumps and then burned them out. Grubbing played a major role in the 80% fatality of transportees to Virginia within a year after their arrival from England during the first sixty years of the Colony. Clearing away timber to make tobacco fields, as well as the intensive hand labor required for tobacco cultivation, harvesting, curing, packing, and shipping required a steady flow of transportees from Great Britain, given the mortality rate. Only Richard Davenport, Sr., of Caroline, is recorded as having slaves before 1760, so the Pamunkey Davenports were clearing their own fields, meaning they did their own grubbing. No Croshaw did such labor. John Scott Davenport Holmdel, NJ

Janet: The possibility that a bastard Davenport line, a grubbing, slaveless, commoner family by Colonial Virginia standards, was intermarried with a wealthy, aristocratic family such as the Croshaws is a sucker's bet. I'll give you long odds. Pamunkey Davenports lived neighbors to the aristocratic Waller family for more than a 100 years from 1696 on, but did not have an intermarriage until the first decade of the Nineteenth Century--and then in Kentucky after the Davenports had moved up and the Wallers had dropped down, social milieu-wise. John Scott Davenport Holmdel, NJ

Hello Everyone, I have been travelling and working alot and haven't done much re any families, except my Bentley family little group got going again. I'm visiting my daughter in Charlottesville before returning to Alexandria after another trip to the Ozarks where my brother lives. Yesterday, she was tied up so i decided to trek to the Library of Virginia and start going through York Co. records for Bentleys, checking out books, etc., catching up on known documents I didn't have (obits, deeds, etc.) Anyway, last night I was reviewing the books I checked out and found this in one of several very recent books (most of which LVA has on order) that have just come out abstracting York Co. records beyond Dorman's 1690s series: York County., VA Wills, Inventories and Court Orders, 1743-1746 by Mary Marshall Brewer. Publisher Colonial Roots, Lewes Delaware. Court held 19 November 1744 Page 36: "The grand jury made the following presentments....Joseph Davenport for not listing his son Bedford Davenport." Follows preceding tithable "lapse" by another...THEN a Joseph & William Kennedy appear to have lapsed also in presenting their tithables. I personally believe the above establishes at least ONE blood relationship between Joseph & a Bedford in York. Given the date 1744, I would project this Bedford could be between 16 and roughly 25, when he'd probably have left home, thus born about 1718-1728. Yes, I do realize there was an earlier Bedford, the lawyer in York Co. FYI, I did review the list archives for the last two years, and the only relationship of a Bedford was to a James Davenport as son. Further in York County, Wills, Inventories and Accounts, 1760-1783 by F. Edward Wright, published by Colonial Roots, is the will of Joseph Davenport. I don't have time to give whole excerpt but it is signed 19 December 1760, proven 17 Aug 1761. Names "wife" (no given name), son Matthew, dau Frances Anne Wright now in England, son Joseph, son James, my sons George and....(several lines unreadable -- sigh). Wit: William Waters, William Hunter, William Holt. Now, I regularly hounded Doc a few years ago but gave up about the Joseph Davenport of York Co. and the Bedford present there being Pamunkey related and was assured that he wasn't a Pamunkey. LIKEWISE, I have regularly hounded him and conveyed to the list my feelings about the Island Creek Community Davenports in 1700s Granville County NC being Pamunkeys, given the presence of Terrys, Davis, Glover, Barnett, etc. as immediate neighbors (Sarah Crotia Barnett!) -- regardless what the "Newberry" DNA might say. Richard Davis' will was probated there even though it says "of Caroline County". I feel this is correct though there may be two different Davenport families. In our Amelia County Bentley research the Samuels Johns and Williams of Amelia were totally confused until we started realizing there were way to many in the 178s tax lists, that some lived 40 miles from the others, found some chancery cases, court records far and away in two directions geographically and on tim! eline. So, I am on the run, but wanted to share the tithe case and the will. At LVA the films are unreadable, so I gave up my Bentley quest on film for a later trip to the Rockefeller Library in Williamsburg (which has indexed the York County records up through late 1700s at least but won't SHARE the index with any other libraries. FYI, there are tons of Davenport, Graves, etc. references in the books I checked out from LVA. Once I get settled again will try to report more. Best Regards, Janet (Baugh) Hunter -- ever believing in the CROSHAW connection for the Pamunkeys. . freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/ ~tmark/RichardDavisWill.html

For Those Who Been Waiting with Bated Breath and Prepared Arguments: We have three wives, long unidentified, of prominent Pamunkeys of the Eighteenth Century that now appear to be identified within small ballpark parameters . The lengthy series of evidences, circumstances, and rationales appear in the "Further Chronicles of the Pamunkey Davenports." upcoming. For the nonce, we give you: 1. Catherine Evans, wife of James Davenport, Sr., of Halifax, eldest son of Thomas, Sr., of Cumberland, grandson of Davis of King William. Catherine was either the sister of Christian Evans, wife of Daniel Terry, or a niece. 2. Sarah Terry, first wife of Henry Davenport, Sr., whose second wife was Ann Pemberton. Sarah was likely the daughter of Daniel Terry and his wife Christian Evans, hence was a first cousin--or a daughter of James Terry, Sr., still a cousin but not so close.. 3. Eliza Glover, first wife of Richard Davenport, Sr., of Charlotte, son of John, Sr., grandson of Martin, Sr., of Hanover. Richard married Eliza in Buckingham County before the Revolution, obtained a considerable dowry which he converted into substantial wealth and social status in Charlotte County. We have not researched Sarah's Glover bonafides. Something to Chew On--There was a reason why the three sons of Thomas Davenport, Sr., namely James, Thomas, Jr., and Henry, who received 200 acres each from Daniel Terry in 1741, were also the only sons of Thomas, Sr., who or whose families followed Daniel Terry to Halifax County settlement. John Scott Davenport Holmdel, NJ

Does any of the following make sense to anyone out there interested in the above surnames. I hope so. K. Martha Davenport, daughter of Silas Davenport and Mary Drumm married Thomas Palmatier. These family lines seem to come out of the Duchess county area in NY., Belgium, Germany and Netherlands back to the 1600's My family lines seem to be in the NY areas and Michigan areas. The Palmatier line connected with the Carman

Whit, Dave and All: There are so many major differences between the traditional, largely oral early family history of the Washington County, VA (WCV) Davenports of the lines of Henry and Julius, sons of Thomas Davenport, Sr., of Cumberland, and what the public records document that it will be a major chore to make the comparison. Yet, I will shortly do so and publish the analysis on the Rootsweb. I feel certain that despite what I present that it will change no minds among the WCV Luddites (those with a mind set unwilling to accept change or new ideas). For my part, the records will speak for themselves and will determine what is portrayed in the Pamunkey Lineage Chart. As to what Bill does about the Lineages and Links of his DNA Analyses, the prerogative is his. I admit to a bias against oral family history. I spent almost two years back in the 60s when I became interested in genealogy spinning my wheels because my grandfather (and Nevada Jack's great-great grandfather)William Asbury Davenport, of Maroa, Macon County, Illinois, did not tell the truth about anything that happened between the time he got out of the Union Army in 1865 until he married my grandmother Cordia Ann Parkhurst in 1892. We found his first wife (Jack's ancestress), descend from his fourth. The VA knew about, had required proof of the death of his second wife before Grandma could qualify for a Civil War Veteran's Widow's pension in 1931. My father, I learned from VA records, successfully accomplished that search in Indiana. Uncle Ed, dead almost forty years now, subsequently told me that Dad (died 1935) also discovered that there likely was another wife, vaguely recalled by an aged distant relative, who died of milk fever after childbirth sometime in the 1870s-80s, someplace--sex, disposition of the child, if survived, unknown. That was highly probable because wife No. 2 died in 1872 and Grandpa didn't marry Grandma until 1893. Other evidence indicated that it could have been Indiana, Illinois, Missouri, or Kansas, a search task that we declined to undertake. Grandpa had stashed his only son by his first wife, Jack's great-grandfather, with a family in Hamilton County, Indiana, and gone roaming. John, Jack's ancestor, was 26 years older than Omer, my father, third son by Grandpa's fourth wife. John Scott Davenport Holmdel, NJ