My Family Tree - Davenport, Joseph

Narrative

One of the 2 Davenport's listed in 1851 Voters List -
http://www.ajlambert.com/history/hst_jcvl.pdf

http://www.tngenweb.org/jackson/court_reels/court_reel_88.htm
Deposition taken: 7 July 1855.
DEPOSITION: JOSEPH DAVENPORT.
"I have been acquainted with him [James G. Kirby] and I have seen him at our precincts ever since I can remember. He is older than I am I think from his size when we were growing up. I am 37 years old the 25th Dec. next, according to the information of my parents.
After he [James G. Kirby] married, he moved from our district."
/signed/ Joseph Davenport

http://www.tngenweb.org/jackson/court_reels/court_reel_66.htm
DOUGLAS, HUGH & CO. vs A. S. HUFFINES and others Chancery 1871-1875
DEPOSITION: JOSEPH DAVENPORT, age 56,[1874] know parties, live about 4 miles from where store was at Highland, lived there 20 years or more. Botts & Hufhines did business there about 3 years.
[Signed] Joseph Davenport

. . . 1866 . . . Joseph Davenport, Deputy Sheriff of Jackson Co. TN.
http://www.mccarver.me/names/StubblefieldWilliamL.htm
"June 8th 1875...said John A. Ray which which he said ray paid and lawfully satisfied to one Joseph Davenport constable who made the judgment upon the docket..."

Apparently Joseph died unexpectedly at 56 years old leaving his family destitute.

Events

Event	Date	Place
Birth	1818-12-25	Jackson, TN

Death	1875-06-05	Jackson, TN
	Event Note http://www.jchistoricalsociety.org/reel56.html PETITION OF JOSEPH CARVER. 17 Aug. 1875. . . . [Joseph Davenport] departed this life intestate . . . his death on the 5th day of June 1875 and Elizabeth Davenport, the widow of said deceased. . .

Parents

Relation to main person	Name	Birth date	Death date
Father	Davenport, Henry	1790	1846-01-19
Mother	Cassetty, Hannah E	about 1802	after 1862
Sister	Davenport, Nancy	1817	after 1880
	Davenport, Joseph	1818-12-25	1875-06-05
Brother	Davenport, unknown son	between 1817 and 1820
Brother	Davenport, Andrew Jackson	1827	before 1900
Sister	Davenport, Sarah	1830	after 1880
Sister	Davenport, Serena E.	1833	after 1880
Brother	Davenport, John	1835	1921-01-28
Sister	Davenport, Marsilva	1836	prob after 1870
Brother	Davenport, Henry	1838	after 1850
Brother	Davenport, John?	1840	after 1850

Families

Family of Davenport, Joseph and Huffines, Elizabeth

Married

Wife

Huffines, Elizabeth ( * 1824 + after 1880 )

Narrative

In Joseph's first census appearance 1840 lists 1m<5, 1m20-30, 1f<5 and no wife! So William and Mary could have had a different mother. Sloan researcher thinks Rhoda was his first wife.
http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/read/SLOAN-SLONE/1998-11/0909982491

Home in 1862: Jackson Co, TN (Civil War Tax Valuation)
Home in 1880: District 3, Jackson, Tennessee (Elizabeth, Ward, Lovenia, Simpson)

note Martin and Sampson are names of Joseph's mother's brothers.

Oct 24, 1874 Probate court authorized 1 year support for the widow Elizabeth Davenport and children:
"Report of the Commishioners appointed at the Oct term of the County Court of Jackson County to lay off and set apart one years support to Elisabeth Davenport and her children, widow of Joseph Davenport, which Report is in the following words and figures (to wit): we find nothing on hand but what is exempt but about five or six hundred lbs of tobacco which are given to said widow and children all of which was done on the 24th Oct 1874. Joel Richardson, James Williams, James Ray, [Carver? illegible]
clerk, Hy Harley"

Children

Name	Birth Date	Death Date
Davenport, William	1839	before 1870
Davenport, Mary Emeline	1841-10-15	1909-12-17
Davenport, Martin S	1844-12-02	1915-07-30
Davenport, Miles Metha	1847-12-01	1921-01-25
Davenport, George	1848	1860
Davenport, Elias Job or Jefferson	1849	between 1910 and 1920
Davenport, Margret Evaline	1853-05-15	1936-12-11
Davenport, Nancy Elizabeth	1855	1917-11-22
Davenport, Louvina? A	1856-04-00	before 1910
Davenport, Sampson Alexander	1861-02-12	1919-01-03
Davenport, Wade Henry?	1861-03-00