Brief Life History of Bess Lola
When Bess Lola Davenport was born on 12 August 1884, in Pawnee City, Pawnee, Nebraska, United States, her father, George Washington Davenport, was 41 and her mother, Mary Jennie Shellhorn, was 38. She married Charles Obed Beardslee on 30 August 1905, in Lincoln, Lancaster, Nebraska, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 3 daughters. She lived in Lander, Sweetwater, Wyoming, United States in 1920 and Long Beach, Los Angeles, California, United States in 1930. She died on 4 January 1945, in Orange, California, United States, at the age of 60, and was buried in Fairhaven Memorial Park, Santa Ana, Orange, California, United States.
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- Bessie Davenport in household of G W Davenport, "Nebraska State Census, 1885"
- Bess Iola Beardslee, "California, County Birth and Death Records, 1800-1994"
- Bess I Davenport, "Nebraska Marriages, 1855-1995"
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World Events (8)
1886
Statue of Liberty is dedicated.
1889
Historical Boundaries: 1889: Orange, California, United States
1901 · Assassination of Mckinley
President William McKinley was shot at the Temple of Music, in the Pan-American Exposition, while shaking hands with the public. Leon Czolgosz shot him twice in the abdomen because he thought it was his duty to do so. McKinley died after eight days of watch and care. He was the third American president to be assassinated. After his death, Congress passed legislation to officially make the Secret Service and gave them responsibility for protecting the President at all times.
Name Meaning
English (Lancashire and Cheshire): habitational name from a place in Cheshire named Davenport, from the Dane river (apparently named with a Celtic cognate of Middle Welsh dafnu ‘to drop, to trickle’) + Old English port ‘market town’.
Irish: in Tipperary, this is an English surname adopted by bearers of Munster Gaelic Ó Donndubhartaigh ‘descendant of Donndubhartach’, a personal name composed of the elements donn ‘brown-haired man’ or ‘chieftain’ + dubh ‘black’ + artach ‘nobleman’.
History: John Davenport (died 1670) arrived in Boston, MA, in 1637. He came of an English Cheshire family associated with Capesthorne Hall, near Macclesfield.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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