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    1. Josephine H. DAVENPORT
    2. This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: DAVENPORT, HOLLINGER, WALTER Classification: Obituary Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/Vh.2ADI/2146 Message Board Post: Mrs. William DAVENPORT- Death came Sunday evening to Mrs. Josephine H. DAVENPORT, 80, wife of William M. DAVENPORT, at Nicholson Convalescent Home, Goshen, where she had been for the past 19 months. She had been ill for several years. Rev. Frank Mulligan conducted the funeral services this Wednesday afternoon at the Geisler Funeral Home, and interment was in the Constantine Cemetery. She was born in Marshall county, Indiana, on August 4, 1878, a daughter of William and Sara Jane HOLLINGER. She and Mr. DAVENPORT were married at Wakarusa, Ind. in March 1899. They moved to Constantine in 1919, went to Florida in 1947, and then to Dunlap, Ind. in 1951. Mrs.DAVENPORT was a member of the Christian Church at Wakarusa. Survivors besides the husband are five sons, Glenwood DAVENPORT of Wabash, Ind., Floyd DAVENPORT of Elkhart, Doren DAVENPORT of Nottawa, Fredreick DAVENPORT of Constantine, and Robert DAVENPORT of El Paso, Texas; a daughter, Mrs. C. E. WALTER of Richland, Mich.! ; 20 grandchildren, 23 great-grandchildren; and one brother, Albert HOLLINGER of Battle Creek. source: undated newspaper (submitted by a volunteer, no family connection)

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