Ginger and Any Other Davenports Interested in this Family: I dipped into my Elkhart County, Indiana, files which I last accessed on 11Dec1977, and here's what I have on your Brethren Davenport ancestry: MARTIN DAVENPORT, son of Augustine Davenport, Sr., and Mary Harris of Rowan County, NC. Born c1773 Rowan County, NC. Married c1794 Randolph County, NC, to Mary Magdalene Mast, daughter of John Mast, Sr. Died May-Jun1798 in Ohio River near Cincinnati, Northwest Territory. Martin's widow m. (2) John Waggoner in Randolph County, with whom she and Martin's sons moved to the Upper Stillwater in Montgomery County, OH, where after Waggoner's death she married (3) Andrew Hoover. She and Andrew Hoover finished their lives in Marion County, Indiana. Martin's children: (1) NOAH DAVENPORT, b. 27Feb1796, Randolph County, NC; m. 8Aug1820, Montgomery County, OH, to Catherine Stutzman, daughter of Jacob Stutzman of Pennsylvania; d. c1838, Elkhart County, IN. (Widow m. (2) John Spohn.) Children, all surnamed DAVENPORT: (1a) MARY, b. 30Apr1821, Montgomery County, OH; m. 15Apr1841, Elkhart County, IN, Daniel Ulery, son of John Ulery and wife Elizabeth -------; d. 17Jun1892, Goshen, Elkhart County, IN. Nine children: Levi, Lidia, John, Catherine, Elizabeth, Samuel, Sarah, David, and Aaron. (1b) DAVID S., b. 1Oct1823, Montgomery County, OH; m. 10Sep1746, Miami County, OH, Margaret Coates, parents unidentified; d. 1Mar1902, Wayne Township, Randolph County, IN. Reported had nine children but only four survived, all daughters, to appear in Federal Censuses: namely Mary J., Martha A. and Catherine (twins), and Minerva B. David S. Davenport was a minister in the Christian (New Light) Church, but supported himself as a carpenter. At age 40, he enlisted as a Sergeant in Co. D, 152nd Ohio National Guard, a 100-day Civil War regiment and served in West Virginia and the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia. Both he and his widow received Civil War pensions. (1c) MARTHA, b. c1825, Montgomery County, OH; unmarried; d. ?, Elkhart County, IN. (1d) JACOB, b. c11827, Miami County, OH; d. young, Miami County, OH? (1e) MARTIN, b. 1828, Miami County, OH; m. 5Jun1851, Elkhart County, IN, Margaret Miller, antecedents unknown; d. ? . In Elkhart County, IN, through Census of 1880. Suspect he and family moved elsewhere after 1885 for none of younger children appear to have been married there. Children: NOAH M., b. 1852, Elkhart County; m. 18Sep1870, Elkhart County, to Susanna Greenwalt; d. 18Jun1900, Wakarusa, Elkhart County. DAVID. b. 1855, Elkhart County, no further data. SARAH, b. 1858, Elkhart County; m. 5Sep1875, Paul Freed, no further data. CATHERINE, b. 1860, Elkhart County; m. 3Sep1885, Elkhart County, Charles Fuller; no further data. LEVI, b. 1863; EDWARD, b. 1866, MARGARET, b. 1871; MARY, b. 1874; and JOHN, b. 1876. All born Elkhart County. No further data. (1f) SUSANNAH, b. 1831, Miami County, OH; m. 24Nov1852, Elkhart County, IN. No further data. (1g) NOAH, Jr., b. 30Sep1832, Miami County, OH; m. 24Aug1854, Elkhart County, IN, Sarah Gever; d. 13May1894, Elkhart County, IN. Children: CATHERINE, b. 1856, Elkhart County, IN; no further data. EMMA, b. 1857, Elkhart County, IN; m. 13Oct1880, Elkhart County, IN, Albert Garver. ISABEL, b. 1858, Elkhart County, IN; no further data. LEVI, b. 1860, Elkhart County, IN; no further data. ROBERT WESLEY, b. 1861, Elkhart County, IN; m. 20Dec1883, Elkhart County, IN, Mary J. Cripe; no further data. JOHN, b. 1866, Elkhart County, IN; d. 1870, Elkhart County, IN. (1h) CATHERINE T., b. 16Mar1835, Miami County, OH; m. 29Feb1852, Elkhart County, IN, Adam B. Miller; d. 1868, Goshen, Elkhart County, IN. Children: Benjamin, Louisa, Margaret, Albert, Eva, and Amanda. After Catherine T.'s death Miller married (2) Hannah Miller by whom he had nine more children. No research on this family in Census of 1870. NOAH's family, excepting DAVID D., was Annual Meeting Church of the Brethren (Dunker), were prominent in that Church in Indiana into the Twentieth Century * * * (2) MARTIN DAVENPORT, b. 8Oct1798, Randolph County, NC; m. 30Jun1821, Miami County, OH, Anna Byrkett; d. c1875, Johnson County, Kansas. At least 12 children, but only 8 identified (one boy and three girls born between 1822 and 1830 possibly died in childhood): All surnamed DAVENPORT. (2a) JOHN, b. 1824, Miami County, OH; no further data. (2b) WILLIAM F., b. 1826, Miami County, OH; no further data. (2c) ANDREW, b. 1830, Marion County, IN; m. 8Mar1852, Catherine Bramwell, Marion County, IN; no further data. (2d) HANNAH, b. 1833, Marion County, IN; no further data; (2e) FRANCIS MARTIN, b. 1835, Marion County, IN; m. 14Jul1856, Marion County, IN, Sarah Gardner; no further data. (2f) NOAH, b. 1837, Marion County, IN; no further data. (2g) MARY, b. 1841, Marion County, IN; no further data. (2h) JOEL, b. 1843, Marion County, IN; no further data. MARTIN was a posthumous son, grew up among the Annual Meeting Dunkers of Southwestern Ohio but rejected their tenets of pacifism and nonjurrance, moved to Marion County, IN, within a few years of his marriage where he was active in the Militia (an elected Captain), Court affairs, and later a Squire himself. In Marion County in the mid-to-late 1820s he was actively associated with his first cousin Austin (Augustine) Davenport, one of the presiding justices of the Marion County Court. In 1830, JP Austin Davenport was commissioned by the Governor of Indiana to organize Boone County, immediately north of Marion, during which Austin was elected Boone's first Sheriff. Thereafter, Martin and Austin were in different counties, but lived less than three miles apart. Martin and most of his sons were staunch abolitionists, and in the late 1850s moved to "Bloody Kansas" to support the antislavery forces there. In later Censuses, the children of Martin were found in Central Indiana, Western Missouri, and Eastern Kansas. I conducted no detailed research on Martin's family after 1850, being engaged elsewhere. John Scott Davenport Holmdel, NJ