CONLEY Mcdonald Davenport b. 1886 Arkansas, USA d. 14 Nov 1916 Oklahoma, USA: Our Family History

1886 - 1916 (30 years)

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Name	CONLEY Mcdonald Davenport [1, 2, 3]
Birth	1886	Arkansas, USA [4]
Gender	Male
Death	14 Nov 1916	Oklahoma, USA [1]
Burial	Springer, Carter, Oklahoma, USA [5]
Origins
Patriarch & Matriarch	JAMES C. Davenport, b. 1830, Alabama, USA d. Bef 1880 (Age < 49 years) (Grandfather) Betty Davenport, b. 1873, Texas, USA d. Yes, date unknown (Mother)
Person ID	I869	1794 BARLOW-GAWF/GOFF (US-NC-WAK / US-TN-HEN) I-FTA50669
Last Modified	20 Oct 2023

Father	CHARLES H. Davenport, b. Abt 1859, Arkansas, USA d. Aft 1935 (Age > 77 years) Other Partners: Sarah Elizabeth Stewart m. 14 Oct 1902
Mother	Betty Davenport, b. 1873, Texas, USA d. Yes, date unknown
Relationship	unknown
Marriage	Bef 1882
Family ID	F374	Group Sheet \| Family Chart

Family Nancy Elizabeth Keller, b. 16 Jul 1889 d. 1961 (Age 71 years)

Marriage 1 Sep 1907 Carter, Oklahoma, USA

Children

	1. Charley D. Davenport, b. Abt 1909, Oklahoma, USA d. Yes, date unknown
	2. Othall Davenport, b. 1911, Oklahoma, USA d. Yes, date unknown ▻ Frances Strong m. 24 Oct 1931 ▻ Frances Strong m. 24 Oct 1931
	3. VIOLET Sarah Owens, b. Abt 1911, Oklahoma d. Apr 1992, Spring, Harris County, Texas, United States of America (Age 81 years) ▻ Hayes Jasper Owens m. 23 Dec 1933 ▻ Hayes Jasper Owens m. 23 Dec 1933
	4. Jack Woodville Davenport, b. 22 Oct 1913, Ardmore, Oklahoma d. 15 Apr 1995, Seattle, Washington, USA (Age 81 years)

Family ID F112 Group Sheet | Family Chart

Last Modified 20 Oct 2023

Notes

1900 Chickasaw Nation, Township 3 w/father

1910: Akers, Carter, Oklahoma (same page as father)
Conley M Davenfort 24 AR/AR/AR
Nancy E Davenfort 20
Charley D Davenfort 8/12
Sally J Fair 52 mother-in-law AR/AL/MS widowed had 5 children/3 living
(Conley is buried in Carter Co., d. 1915)

For marriage information: http://www.rootsweb.com/~okgarvin/kinard/chickdmarr.htm

buried http://files.usgwarchives.net/ok/carter/cemeteries/carter2d.txt

http://www.genealogy.com/ftm/d/e/m/Kimberly-Dempsey/GENE2-0002.html
Nancy Elizabeth "Nannie" Keller was born July 16, 1889, in Indian Territory.At age seventeen, Nannie met Conley Davenport at a play party (square dance).They were married September 2, 1907.The davenports had come to Indian Territory in 1898 from Arkansas.For a few years, Nannie and Conley lived next to a wonderful black family, Uncle Albert and Aunt Martha Shannon.These families helped each other with their crops.Nannie and Conley next lived in a house where a woman died of tuberculosis.Despite their fumigating, Conley contracted the disease.The only known place for treatment was in New Mexico.After nearly a year's delay, they started the trip by wagon (it took 4 months).Nannie had to do odd jobs on the way to earn just a few cents for food.After Conley's exam, they were told he could live only a short time, and they headed to Oklahoma again.They arrived in Ardmore again in September, 1916.Conley died November 14, 1916.
Nannie's life from this time forward was one of self determination and courage, but with only hard toil to support her children.She had three small children;Charles Othal, Violet, and Woodvel.For a time the family stayed with COnley's sister in Ardmore, Mrs. Perry Stillwell, and Nannie worked at the Chlor Hotel. But she wanted the children on the farm.Frequently, they lived in old leaky houses that got their beds and food wet, and one time lived in a tent.Nannie worked from 4 a.m. until dark, chopping cotton, taking washes to do on rub boards, plus all their family chores, to keep her family together.She was a person of great love and determination.During a storm, she would gather her children together with her in the center and all the children around, covered by blankets.Violet recalled how secure they all felt with her.Because of her ingenuity and love, they a survived and remember a very happy youth.
After Othal left for college, Nannie was lost, for he was her main helper.She then gotjob at Von Keller Hospital as a dietician, and later too some training as a nurse.Othal became a plywood mill engineer and Woodvel chose life on a ranch but later worked also in the plywood business.Violet became a beautician.The mother, living with her children in later years, worked at the Boeing Aircraft plant during World War II.She retired in 1957 and died in 1961 at age 72.
If our father could have looked in on us when we were growing up, he would have told Mother, "it was a job well done."

Sources

[S152] OneWorldTree.
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[S153] Washington, Marriage Records, 1854-2013, Washington State Archives; Olympia, Washington; Marriage Returns; Collection Title: Washington Marriage Records, 1854-2013.
[S133] U.S., Social Security Applications and Claims Index, 1936-2007.
[S37] 1910 United States Federal Census.
Online publication - Ancestry.com. 1910 United States Federal Census [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: MyFamily.com, Inc., 2006. For details on the contents of the film numbers, visit the following NARA web page: NARA.Original data - United States of America, Bureau of the Census. Thirteenth Census of the United States, 1910. Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1910.T624, 1,178 rolls. Akers, Carter, Oklahoma, ED , roll T624_1246, part , page .
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