Brief Life History of Hendrick Wright
When Hendrick Wright Davenport was born on 5 December 1834, in Plymouth Township, Luzerne, Pennsylvania, United States, his father, Daniel Davenport, was 38 and his mother, Mary Elizabeth "Polly" Nesbitt, was 31. He married Caroline Gabriel on 8 May 1854. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 7 daughters. He lived in Nebraska City, Otoe, Nebraska, United States in 1880 and Hitchcock, Nebraska, United States for about 25 years. He died on 9 July 1916, in Culbertson, Hitchcock, Nebraska, United States, at the age of 81, and was buried in Wyuka Cemetery, Nebraska City, Otoe, Nebraska, United States.
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- H W Davenport, "Nebraska State Census, 1885"
- H W Davenport in entry for Emma D Welton, "California, County Birth and Death Records, 1800-1994"
- Hendrick Davnport, "United States Census, 1860"
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1836 · Remember the Alamo
Being a monumental event in the Texas Revolution, The Battle of the Alamo was a thirteen-day battle at the Alamo Mission near San Antonio. In the early morning of the final battle, the Mexican Army advanced on the Alamo. Quickly being overrun, the Texian Soldiers quickly withdrew inside the building. The battle has often been overshadowed by events from the Mexican–American War, But the Alamo gradually became known as a national battle site and later named an official Texas State Shrine.
1855
Historical Boundaries: 1855: Pierce, Nebraska Territory, United States 1855: Otoe, Nebraska Territory, United States 1867: Otoe, Nebraska, United States
1863
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
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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