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| !John Scott Davenport, Oct. 14, 1977: " . . . The Davenports of Dr. John Scott Davenport's line did not leave N.C. for Ind. until 1821, then settled north of Indianpolis, pioneering Boone Co. The Fouts-Davenports went to Montgomery Co., Oh., in 1803, to the Indiana Territory in 1806-07. Jacob Foutz-Eleanor Dougan lived in the Fouts-Davenport settlement, Wayne Co., Ind., 1810-1819, until they moved to Clark Co., Ind., then later to Fulton Co., Ill." From http://users.intercomm.com/nvjack/davnport/others.htm: Dr. John Scott DAVENPORT (JSDDOC@@aol.com) (AKA Jersey Doc) is currently living in retirement in NJ, but contemplates returning to the academic ranks and moving to Virginia. He is Pamunkey DAVENPORT by two lines from Davis DAVENPORT of King William County, and has been actively pursuing broad DAVENPORT genealogy interests off and on for thirty years. He served as compiler of the recently published "The Pamunkey Davenports of Colonial Virginia" (which can be found on this web site). While he is retired from the Scripps-Howard Newspapers, an unbroken connection back to 1958, he has also served as a fulltime or adjunct faculty member at universities or colleges in Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Ohio, Virginia, and Utah over a fifty year span. Email Response from Dr. Davenport (JSDDOC@@aol.com): Paul: I not only knew and vividly recall my grandmother Cordia Anne Parkhurst Davenport, who died when I was twelve years old, but I also knew her sister Aunt Mary Parkhurst Davis, who died in the mid-1950s. I took my wife to visit Aunt Mary in Forsyth in 1951. We were living in Tiskilwa, Bureau County, Illinois, at the time. Before we (my father's family) moved to California in 1935, I was often at Grandma and Grandpa's house in Decatur. They lived no more than five block from us, and I walked over there often, for Grandma always gave me candy or let me drink coffee--which teed my Mother off--and Grandpa always gave me a dime when he was still living. (One time, at age 5, I guess, I took the dime and walked 20 blocks to downtown Decatur and spent the dime to see the movie "Puss in Boots," then walked home after dark, a fete which teed off both my Mom and Dad. I g! ot my britches tanned.) Grandpa and Grandma Davenport were considered bad influences on me. I was born independent and needed no encouragement to go off in my own directions. I kept going over to see Grandma, sometimes against direct orders to the contrary, for another four years after Grandpa had passed on. She had a pump organ and lots of neat stuff in her parlor. Then Dad was murdered, and we moved to California. While I do not recall ever meeting any Parkhurst males, I knew of them, one who was a barber somewhere (Iowa?) and one who had moved to Oklahoma. My grandfather William Asbury Davenport died in Decatur just before my sixth birthday, but I have a vivid memory of him, particularly of having been in his room in Macon County Hospital in Decatur while he was on his death bed. We moved to California in 1935 after my Father's death, and was advised of Grandma Davenport's death by telegram. I maintained clo contact with Uncle Edward Allen Davenport, William and Cordia Anne's second son, until his death in 1972. He sent me all of the family history materials he had shortly before his death, among which were the obituaries of Job Benton and Ellen Parkhurst as published in various newspapers, the Masonic Memorial Certificate for Job Benton, and items concerning Aunt Mary and her! husband. Aunt Mary was a spinster who resided with her parents in Forsyth. Davis, a confirmed bachelor, was a traveling salesman who boarded with the Parkhursts in Forsyth for years before Ellen and then Job Benton died. When Job died, it was no longer proper for Davis to be living at the Parkhur house with the spinster Mary Parkhurst, so they got married, and went on as before until his death. Uncle Ed was certain that there was never a consummation to the marriage. Davis died in the mid-to-late 1920s, as I recall. Aunt Mary continued to live on in Old Parkhurst place in Forsyth, and died there. Uncle Ed was her executor--which is how he came by the Parkhurst material he sent me. Job Benton, Ellen, Mary, and Davis--one big tombstone for all--are buried in Maroa Cemetery, as are William, Cordia Anne, and my parents Omer Earl and Margaret, Uncle Ed and Aunt Daisy, Uncle Elmer, and Aunt Hepiziah (who died at six months, the only daughter that William and Cordia Ann had). Only Uncle Henry Benton Davenport, who moved to Texas and then to California, is buried elsewhere. I own 12 grave sites adjoining my parents and Unc Ed's family there also, plan to be planted there myself. Knowing as I have of the Parkhurst connection, I have noted vario Parkhurst appearances in the press, including one Parkhurst in Oklahoma who was or is a honcho in a Truckers Association or the Teamsters Union. A connection to you? Good to hear from you, Cousin. I copy Ray Davenport, Jr., a grandson of Uncle Ed, and Christopher Davenport, a son of Ray, Jr., who are cousins of yours also. John Scott Davenport Holmdel, NJ | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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