FYI: Confederate vet living in 1912 oklahoma
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The Booster
R. W. Mason, Publisher
J. E. McClung, Editor
Published in Maysville, Garvin County, Oklahoma
February 29, 1912
From the Gurdon (Arkansas) Times: Uncle John W. Davenport of Maysville, Oklahoma arrived here last Saturday afternoon from a visit of six weeks with his nephew, W. A. Davenport at Alberta, Louisiana and has been spending the week here with his nephew and niece, Scott Harris and Mrs. J. L. Closson. Uncle John is 82 years of age, and lived at Arkadelphia some 70 years ago, at that early date belonging to one of the wealthiest and most aristocratic families of Clark County. There are non living now that we know of that would remember Uncle John without it would be possibly Grandma Barkman at Arkadelphia, Isom Langley and a few others. He leaves tomorrow for his home, going by way of Weatherford, Texas.
March 14, 1912
Called Away by Dread Meningitis
Another case of spinal meningitis was reported by the city health officer Tuesday, the patient being Mrs. Davenport, an elderly woman from Maysville, visiting at the home of her son-in-law, A. P. Cash, corner of Main and Harvey, … reported in Monday’s Oklahoman.
Mrs. Davenport died at the home of Mr. Cash Monday.
Deceased was the wife of Uncle John Davenport of this town, and was 76 years old, being 6 years younger than Uncle John. She had been a member of the Methodist church for upward of 60 years, professing faith in Christ during her early girlhood.
Mrs. Davenport was shipped here from Oklahoma City Tuesday, arriving on the noon train, and was taken on to the cemetery where she was laid in her last resting place in the presence of many relatives and friends.
The service at the grave was conducted by G. M. Dilbeck.
June 6, 1912
A Brief Sketch of the Lives of Some of Maysville’s Oldest Citizens: Champions of the Lost Cause
John Wilkerson Davenport was born in Butler County, Alabama in 1830. His parents moved to Texas when he was but a lad of ten and where his long period of residence enabled him to carefully not every phase of developmental evolution of that truly wonderful state. He was about 18 when the Mexican War broke out and owing to his youthfulness, the narrowly escaped the hardships of a borderman-soldier and Mexican frontier life. Uncle John claims the combined distinctions of serving four years under the Gray of the Confederacy in that quartermaster’s department under Kerby smith and of being the oldest Texan of whom he can find any trace. He married when he was 25 and lived with his wife 57 years, to whom were born 9 children, 5 girls and 4 boys…