Chester Herald (Chester, NE), Thursday, May 20, 1937; pg. 1
Frank Davenport was born in Mills county (sic), Iowa, March 14th, 1859, and departed this life at Hastings, Nebraska, May 9, 1937, at the age of 78 years, 1 month and 24 days.
When he was sixteen years of age he came with his parents to Kansas, residing about four miles southeast of Chester, and with the exception of two years that he spent in Oklahoma, he spent the rest of his life in Kansas and Nebraska.
He was united in marriage to Idena Baughan on the 18th day of April, 1881, and to this union three children were born, two of them preceded him to the Great Beyond.
He was baptized in the Christian Church and always believed in eternal salvation.
He leaves to mourn his passing, his wife; one daughter, Mrs. E.C. Summers, and one grandson, C.E. Summers, both of Riverside, Calif.; two brothers, J.J. Davenport, of Chester, and Charles Davenport, of Pocasset, Okla.; and one sister, Mrs. Sarah Jefferson, of Haddam, Kans.; and a host of relatives and friends.
He had been in ill health for a number of years, and may he be at rest at last.
FINAL THOUGHT
What we bury here today
Is the outward robe of clay.
But the flesh that fought in vain
"Gainst Life's never-ending strain.
All that fretted him is gone,
All we loved in him lives on.
At the grave where now we grieve,
All that erred and failed we leave.
Like a coat that can't be matched,
Grown too threadbare to be patched,
Though he viewed it once with pride,
Now the flesh is put aside.
Sleeping? Yes, to wake again.
Done with suffering and pain;
Wake, to wear with greater ease
Longer lasting robes than these.
This the body was the thing
Which contrived his suffering.
What we loved in him shall be
Glowing still in memory;
Here we place forevermore
Every hurt and pain he bore;
Nothing else from life has gone;
All we loved in him lives on. - Edgar A. Guest.
Frank Davenport was born in Mills county (sic), Iowa, March 14th, 1859, and departed this life at Hastings, Nebraska, May 9, 1937, at the age of 78 years, 1 month and 24 days.
When he was sixteen years of age he came with his parents to Kansas, residing about four miles southeast of Chester, and with the exception of two years that he spent in Oklahoma, he spent the rest of his life in Kansas and Nebraska.
He was united in marriage to Idena Baughan on the 18th day of April, 1881, and to this union three children were born, two of them preceded him to the Great Beyond.
He was baptized in the Christian Church and always believed in eternal salvation.
He leaves to mourn his passing, his wife; one daughter, Mrs. E.C. Summers, and one grandson, C.E. Summers, both of Riverside, Calif.; two brothers, J.J. Davenport, of Chester, and Charles Davenport, of Pocasset, Okla.; and one sister, Mrs. Sarah Jefferson, of Haddam, Kans.; and a host of relatives and friends.
He had been in ill health for a number of years, and may he be at rest at last.
FINAL THOUGHT
What we bury here today
Is the outward robe of clay.
But the flesh that fought in vain
"Gainst Life's never-ending strain.
All that fretted him is gone,
All we loved in him lives on.
At the grave where now we grieve,
All that erred and failed we leave.
Like a coat that can't be matched,
Grown too threadbare to be patched,
Though he viewed it once with pride,
Now the flesh is put aside.
Sleeping? Yes, to wake again.
Done with suffering and pain;
Wake, to wear with greater ease
Longer lasting robes than these.
This the body was the thing
Which contrived his suffering.
What we loved in him shall be
Glowing still in memory;
Here we place forevermore
Every hurt and pain he bore;
Nothing else from life has gone;
All we loved in him lives on. - Edgar A. Guest.
Chester Herald (Chester, NE), Thursday, May 20, 1937; pg. 1
Frank Davenport was born in Mills county (sic), Iowa, March 14th, 1859, and departed this life at Hastings, Nebraska, May 9, 1937, at the age of 78 years, 1 month and 24 days.
When he was sixteen years of age he came with his parents to Kansas, residing about four miles southeast of Chester, and with the exception of two years that he spent in Oklahoma, he spent the rest of his life in Kansas and Nebraska.
He was united in marriage to Idena Baughan on the 18th day of April, 1881, and to this union three children were born, two of them preceded him to the Great Beyond.
He was baptized in the Christian Church and always believed in eternal salvation.
He leaves to mourn his passing, his wife; one daughter, Mrs. E.C. Summers, and one grandson, C.E. Summers, both of Riverside, Calif.; two brothers, J.J. Davenport, of Chester, and Charles Davenport, of Pocasset, Okla.; and one sister, Mrs. Sarah Jefferson, of Haddam, Kans.; and a host of relatives and friends.
He had been in ill health for a number of years, and may he be at rest at last.
FINAL THOUGHT
What we bury here today
Is the outward robe of clay.
But the flesh that fought in vain
"Gainst Life's never-ending strain.
All that fretted him is gone,
All we loved in him lives on.
At the grave where now we grieve,
All that erred and failed we leave.
Like a coat that can't be matched,
Grown too threadbare to be patched,
Though he viewed it once with pride,
Now the flesh is put aside.
Sleeping? Yes, to wake again.
Done with suffering and pain;
Wake, to wear with greater ease
Longer lasting robes than these.
This the body was the thing
Which contrived his suffering.
What we loved in him shall be
Glowing still in memory;
Here we place forevermore
Every hurt and pain he bore;
Nothing else from life has gone;
All we loved in him lives on. - Edgar A. Guest.
Frank Davenport was born in Mills county (sic), Iowa, March 14th, 1859, and departed this life at Hastings, Nebraska, May 9, 1937, at the age of 78 years, 1 month and 24 days.
When he was sixteen years of age he came with his parents to Kansas, residing about four miles southeast of Chester, and with the exception of two years that he spent in Oklahoma, he spent the rest of his life in Kansas and Nebraska.
He was united in marriage to Idena Baughan on the 18th day of April, 1881, and to this union three children were born, two of them preceded him to the Great Beyond.
He was baptized in the Christian Church and always believed in eternal salvation.
He leaves to mourn his passing, his wife; one daughter, Mrs. E.C. Summers, and one grandson, C.E. Summers, both of Riverside, Calif.; two brothers, J.J. Davenport, of Chester, and Charles Davenport, of Pocasset, Okla.; and one sister, Mrs. Sarah Jefferson, of Haddam, Kans.; and a host of relatives and friends.
He had been in ill health for a number of years, and may he be at rest at last.
FINAL THOUGHT
What we bury here today
Is the outward robe of clay.
But the flesh that fought in vain
"Gainst Life's never-ending strain.
All that fretted him is gone,
All we loved in him lives on.
At the grave where now we grieve,
All that erred and failed we leave.
Like a coat that can't be matched,
Grown too threadbare to be patched,
Though he viewed it once with pride,
Now the flesh is put aside.
Sleeping? Yes, to wake again.
Done with suffering and pain;
Wake, to wear with greater ease
Longer lasting robes than these.
This the body was the thing
Which contrived his suffering.
What we loved in him shall be
Glowing still in memory;
Here we place forevermore
Every hurt and pain he bore;
Nothing else from life has gone;
All we loved in him lives on. - Edgar A. Guest.
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