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Martha Griffith Davenport, 1842-1928

GRIFFITH, DAVENPORT, GALER, WILKINS, ALLANSON, LINES, MORRIS, EVANS, CRANE, BURD, WALLBANK

Posted By: Pat Ryan White (email)
Date: 4/12/2019 at 08:25:16

MRS. DAVENPORT DIES.
Martha Griffith Davenport, 85, a native of Pennsylvania and a Butte resident since 1918, died last night at the home of her son, Warren G. Davenport, following an attack of pleuro-pneumonia. She was an active member of the W.C.T.U. and other Butte organizations. The body is at the Gateway mortuary, where services will be held at 2:30 o'clock Tuesday afternoon. The body will be transported to Mount Pleasant, Iowa, for interment.
["The Anaconda Standard", Anaconda, Montana, Saturday, April 28, 1928, page 6]
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UNIVERSALIST CHURCH - The funeral service for the late Mrs. Martha Davenport will be held at this church at 2:30 on Sunday. All friends are invited to attend.
["Mt. Pleasant News", Saturday, May 5, 1928, page 4]
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Funeral services were held at the Universalist church Sunday for Mrs. Martha Davenport, who died at her home in Butte, Mont., last week, and whose body was brought here for burial. Mrs. Davenport was formerly a teacher in the Mt. Pleasant schools, and a prominent figure in early Iowa history, being at one time a platform lecturer on women's suffrage and temperance, and state secretary of the W.C.T.U. Mr. Davenport was formerly a lawyer in Mt. Pleasant, and the family removed to Butte, Mont., about 1918, where their son lived. Mrs. Davenport was 86 years old, her family being one of Mt. Pleasant's pioneer families. Rev. Laura B. Galer conducted the services, and Mrs. H. G. Wilkins and Miss Ruth Allanson of Chicago sang sacred songs. Following the services the body was interred in the family burial plot at Forest Home cemetery. Messrs. Ed Lines, V.D. Morris, Wm. Evans, Geo. Crane, J.M. Burd and Arthur Wallbank were the pall bearers.
["Burlington Hawk Eye", May 8, 1928, page 2]

Gravesite in Forest Home Cemetery
 

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