Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 11, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 January 1915 — FATHER OF W. A DAVENPORT DEAD [ARTICLE]

FATHER OF W. A DAVENPORT DEAD

Aged Minister Fused Away at - Home in Elisabethtown, Ky., Last Friday Afternoon. W. A. Davenport, clerk in the Rensselaer postoffice, returned home Monday from the sad mission of attending his father's funeral in Elizabethtown, Ky. His father was a superanuated Methodist minister and the following account of his life and death ig taken from The Elizabethtown News of Jan. 12th: ‘The Rev. William T. Davenport, a superanuated Methodist minister of this city, died at his home Friday afternoon at 2 o’clock after a long period of declining health. He is survived by three sons, Ruel Davenport, of this city: Clarence Davenport, of Washington, Pa., and William Davenport, Jr., of Rensselaer, Ind. ‘The funeral services were conducted Sunday at his late residence by the Rev. L. Robjnson, and the burial followed in the city cemetery. . William T. Davenport was born on April 16th, 1840, in Lebanon, Marion county, and at the age of 20 years he was ordained a minister in the Methodist church. The Rev. Davenport was an active minister in the Louisville conference for fifty-four years. He preached his first sermon at the Little Mount church, in Larue county, in the summer after his ordination, and had charges in ail parts of the conference until 1904, when his health broke down, while pastor at Custer, Breckinridge county. Since that time he spent his remaining days in Hodgenville and Elizabethtown. “We was married in 1866 to Miss Belle Brownfield, and on the year of the silver anniversary of their wedding his wife died. “He was married the second time to Miss Minerva Hill. ‘The Rev. Davenport was at all times an earnest and faithful minister and leases many friends in all parts of the state to mourn his death. It is probable that during his long pastorate five thousand persons were converted. During his life he pointed with pride to the fact that while a resident of Larue county he lived for several years in the log cabin in which Abraham Lincoln was born.

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dozen.

JOHN EGER.

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