This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Davenport,Thompson,Abbott Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/3RB.2ACE/187.1 Message Board Post: When did Arthur Davenport live? Is it possible he had a first wife,from MA?I have an grandaunt Alma who was marrried to an Arthur Davenport.She was born about 1880+ in Waltham,MA.They had children and she and one or more were ill during an epidemic and the child or children died and she was never well enough to raise any children nor remain married from the stories we heard.We think one or more children survived.