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Submitted: 11/6/13 • Approved: 6/25/18 • Last Updated: 6/28/18 • R943036-G0-S3
PRIVATE
Company C 3 Arkansas State Infantry
Civil War Confederate
July 14, 1820 - September 25, 1869
*Obituary
Fayetteville Democrat
Saturday, October 9, 1869
DAVENPORT, Charles H. - Charles H. Davenport died of disease of the heart in this city on the 25th of Sept. last. He was a native of Philadelphia and was a member of one of the very respectable and wealthy families of that city. He came to Fayetteville first about the year 1842; our old citizens remember him as a fine business man, a polished gentleman in whatever society thrown. He married in this city where he continued to reside with the exception of a short time while he was at Van Buren, until 1863 when he returned to Philadelphia, again he came to Fayetteville in 1865. To say that Charles H. Davenport was without his faults would be to say that he was not human. He had one fault, a very serious one, he drank, but some four months previous to his death he gave up the cup and could not be induced to touch a drop even for medicine. But the grave has covered up all of his faults and he sleeps in the quiet bosom of the earth without an enemy. The bright smile that lit up his countenance while the reaper death was busy severing the brittle threads of life, and other evidences, gave his surrounding friends reason to believe that the spiritual consolation he had sought had not been in vain and that after life's fitful fever is over, he has gone to that better land where then tempter can never enter.
Sons of Confederate Veterans, Washington County, Arkansas 2009
Compiled by William W Degge
Contributed on 11/6/13 by judyfrog
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