When Lee Ross Davenport was born on 26 December 1887, in Sulphur Springs, Hopkins, Texas, United States, his father, George Washington Davenport, was 39 and his mother, Mary Georgie Holbert, was 29. He married Ida Mae Gibson on 26 December 1909, in Sulphur Springs, Hopkins, Texas, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 1 daughter. He lived in Hunt, Texas, United States in 1935 and Justice Precinct 5, Grayson, Texas, United States in 1940. He died on 16 August 1972, in Dallas, Dallas, Texas, United States, at the age of 84.