Doc.... How poignant. How so many of our ancestors must have struggled through so many hardships and adversity settling and forming our great nation..... and really, not all that long ago. One just can not just imagine what the next century will hold for our descendants, let alone the next 1000. Thank you again for the insight and human interest, not to mention the facts unearthed by your considerable effort, you so often provide us. BGBob JSDDOC@aol.com wrote: > > Roy: > > As near as I can determine, the sons of Thomas Davenport and grandsons of > William Davenport and his wife Ann Arnold of Spotsylvania County, Virginia, > were: (1) by Thomas' first wife Susannah Partlow and born in Spotsylvania > County, one: namely Burket, who married in Laurens County, South Carolina, > and died there in 1827; (2) by his second wife Lettitia Wharton, and born in > Laurens County, South Carolina, three: Samuel W. (Lauderdale County, TN), > Pleasant G. (Jackson County, AR), and George W. (Jefferson County, AL). I am > sure only of Laurens County for Burket as the final location. Others are > based on last Census findings, and I have not read beyond 1850. > > I still think that you are a Newberry, but James Davenport, son of > Augustine, Sr., of Rowan (now Davidson) County, NC, spent the years 1807-1814 > in South Carolina, location unknown. Considering that his Uncles Thomas and > John Davenport as well as Aunt Mary Davenport Arnold, and a whole batch of > Arnold cousins, were located in the southwest corner of Laurens County, > adjoining the Greenville line, James of Augustine may have spent his South > Carolina years there. We know that he married in South Carolina, > Mary--surname unknown, for he was unmarried when he left North Carolina in > 1807, and his son James W. Davenport, born 1812, consistently cited South > Carolina as his birthplace in Census enumerations. James of Augustine was > never a landowner in either Wayne County, Indiana, or adjoining Preble > County, Ohio, where his children appeared in the Census of 1850. Son James > W. married in Preble County before moving to Pike Township, Marion County, > Indiana. Both James and his brother David, sons of Augustine, bounced back > and forth across that Indiana-Ohio State line after coming north from > Carolina. Both are believed to have died, as did their sister Sarah > Davenport Fouts, in the Cholera Epidemic of 1832. Both James and David > worked at one time or another for their elder brother Jesse, who had left > North Carolina in 1801 and pioneered Wayne County, and owned and operated > Davenport's Mill on the Elkhorn (southeast of present-day Richmond). After > Jesse was killed in 1827, leaving 15 children, when a bunch of drunks dropped > the center beam on him at a barn raising, both James and David drifted back > and forth, apparently as hired men, across that State Line and both were dead > by 1833. In the Census of 1850, Mary Davenport, widow of James, was > enumerated in the Wayne County Poor House--after having been kept by Jesse's > widow Rebecca for a number of years (Court records). Elizabeth Davenport, > widow of David, was living alone nearby in Preble County. Neither left a > record of their families, both of which had been dispersed to foster homes or > work places after their husbands' deaths. > > The point being that both James and David Davenport of Augustine had > large families, neither of which has been definitively identified. I know > that you have family legend to the effect that your Willis Augustus was born > in Ohio. If James of Augustine could make his way from South Carolina to > Indiana-Ohio, a son could make his way back. There were Pamunkey Davenport > kinfolks of the sons of Augustine on Saluda waters in Laurens all through the > Nineteenth Century. > > It's only a straw, but you're welcome to it. > > John Scott Davenport > Holmdel, NJ > > ==== DAVENPORT Mailing List ==== > Search the List Archives at > http://archiver.rootsweb.com/DAVENPORT-L/ > > ============================== > Personalized Mailing Lists: never miss a connection again. > http://pml.rootsweb.com/ > Brought to you by RootsWeb.com.