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Mary Reader <I>Fruit</I> Davenport

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Mary Reader Fruit Davenport

Birth
Kentucky, USA
Death
1897 (aged 80–81)
De Witt, DeWitt County, Illinois, USA
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Clinton, DeWitt County, Illinois, USA Add to Map
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Turnbridge Cem Kenny Dewitt Ill
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Mary was born May 24 1816 in Kentucky.Mary was named after her maternal grandmother (Mary Polly Reader).
She married George Cox on Oct 25 1834. She and George had ten children. After George passed away she later married Thomas Davenport on January 23 1859. She and Thomas had three children together.

Mary was the daughter of Thomas Clark Fruit who was one of the early and well-known pioneers of his section of the State. He was a native of North Carolina born October 5, 1784, and passed the first eighteen years of his life in the place of his birth.

He then went to Kentucky and was married in that State July 31, 1806, to Elizabeth Thompson who was a native of North Carolina.

Elizabeth was the youngest child of her family and had the misfortune to lose her mother (Polly (Reader) Thompson), who was drowned when she was a small child.
Mary was born May 24 1816 in Kentucky.Mary was named after her maternal grandmother (Mary Polly Reader).
She married George Cox on Oct 25 1834. She and George had ten children. After George passed away she later married Thomas Davenport on January 23 1859. She and Thomas had three children together.

Mary was the daughter of Thomas Clark Fruit who was one of the early and well-known pioneers of his section of the State. He was a native of North Carolina born October 5, 1784, and passed the first eighteen years of his life in the place of his birth.

He then went to Kentucky and was married in that State July 31, 1806, to Elizabeth Thompson who was a native of North Carolina.

Elizabeth was the youngest child of her family and had the misfortune to lose her mother (Polly (Reader) Thompson), who was drowned when she was a small child.

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