Brief Life History of Wayne Andrew
When Wayne Andrew Davenport was born on 18 October 1901, in Texas, United States, his father, Charles Kavinaugh Davenport, was 40 and his mother, Minnie Lee Purcell, was 28. He married Mary Emma Arbuckle on 1 October 1922, in Fayette, Texas, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 daughter. He lived in Justice Precinct 4, Bastrop, Texas, United States in 1920 and Elgin, Bastrop, Texas, United States for about 10 years. He died on 2 January 1981, in Travis, Texas, United States, at the age of 79, and was buried in Elgin, Bastrop, Texas, United States.
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- Wayne A Davenport, "United States Census, 1930"
- Mayne Daoeupart, "Texas, County Marriage Index, 1837-1977"
- Wayne Davenport, "Texas Death Index, 1903-2000"
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World Events (8)
1902 · So Much Farm Land
A law that funded many irrigation and agricultural projects in the western states.
1905 · Construction of the Praetorian Building
Texas completed the construction of the Praetorian Building (Stone Plane Tower) in 1909. It was the first skyscraper in Texas and the Southwestern United States. The building had 15 stories and was 190 ft tall.
1923 · The President Dies of a Heart Attack
Warrant G. Harding died of a heart attack in the Palace hotel in San Francisco.
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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