Cobb County GaArchives Obituaries.....Davenport, Lt Earnest Willie October 15, 1918
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The Marietta Journal, September 29, 1921
LT E W DAVENPORT
COBB ARGONNE HERO
BURIED AT MARS HILL

The body of Lieutenant Earnest Willie DAVENPORT, company A, 325th Infantry, one
of Cobb's most heroic sons in the late war, and who met his death while leading
his platoon after the death of all the other officers, in the Argonne, October
15, 1918, was laid to rest in the cemetery at Mars Hill, near his home, last
Sunday afternoon at 2 o'clock, in the presence of one of the largest crowds said
to have ever attended a funeral in Cobb county.  The body was only recently
brought from its first burial place in France, near the scene of supreme sacrifice.

Lieutenant, or Sergeant DAVENPORT, as his commission was waiting him in the rear
at the time of his death and had not been bestowed upon him, was the son of Mr
and Mrs S H DAVENPORT, of near Acworth, and was a nephew of Sheriff SWANSON, of
this city.

Sergeant DAVENPORT led the contingent of Cobb county men to the training camp at
Camp Gordon.  He was very popular in his section and throughout the county, and
it is said that he filled an unusually warm spot in the heart of all his
comrades in war with whom he came in contact.  He had rallied his platoon after
the other officers had been killed and while bravely leading them on, it is
stated, that he fell.

The funeral services were very impressive, and the pall-bearers were all
comrades of the deceased in the war.  The services were conducted by Rev E D
PATTON and Rev A J MORGAN, while talks were made by Col J Glenn GILES, Col
Lindley CAMP and Mr T M AWTREY.

Wrapped in the flag which he had helped to render stainless and lying in the
bosom of the land for which he fought, Sergeant DAVENPORT truly awaits the
Resurrection Morn to receive a hero's reward and a hero's crown.

Additional Comments:
From census records, he was approximately 25 years of age at the time of his death.

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