Burke County NcArchives Obituaries.....Davenport, Thomas 1810
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The Star
8 Mar 1810

Communication

Died on the 10th of December, 1809, at the house of Martin Davenport in Burke 
County, Mr. Thomas Davenport in the 98th year of his age. He enjoyed his 
health until a short time before his death. Mr. Davenport was remarkable for a 
cheerful disposition and for benelovence of heart; it is said he never was 
involved in a law suit but once, and then by being security for a debt, he was 
sued and compelled to pay the money. In the latter part of his life he 
appeared to enjoy the comforts of religion in a high degree.

He raised six daughters and one son. His eldest daughter, Sophia, the wife of 
William White, Esq. of the Mulberry in the county of Burke, hath at this time 
upwards of one hundred of her posterity living; and it has been ascertained 
that from Thomas Davenport, counting him as the first, there are more than 
forty of his posterity now living of the 5th generation. Thomas Davenport's 
five youngest children each raised large families, and it is computed that the 
posterity of those five now living amount to more than three hundred.


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