14/03/2021
Sara Adline Conley Davenport (1846 - 1922)
She was my great, great, great-grandmother.
Daniel Littleton Louis Arnold Conley was born in Ireland. He came to America as a young man, settling in Pickens County, SC. He married Nancy Howard. They had 6 children: William Howard, Littleton, John, Nancy (m. McKiney), Susan (m. Banks) and Emiline (m. Young).
William Howard Conley married Elizabeth Nix of Pickens, SC and made their home on Eastatoe River, near Antioc Church in Pickens Co., SC for several years. They had 4 children: John, Sarah Adline (m. Davenport), Clarinda Elizabeth (m. Stewart), and Falby (m. Kincaid).
About 1852, W.H. and Elizabeth moved to Ducktown, TN for two years, where he was employed by the Copper Co. as a carpenter.
In 1854 they started to move back to SC. In Union Co., William got into a quarrel with the man helping them move, and sent him back, and made arrangements for a Mr. Fields to keep his family, and he went on, on foot, to SC to get conveyance to come back for his family.
It was bad weather and he was forced to wade several streams and went wet for long periods. When he arrived back home in SC, he developed a fever and died, without returning for his family. He was buried at Antioc Church, Pickens Co., SC. After the funeral, his brother, Littleton, went to Union Co. and brought back Elizabeth and her 4 children. Falba was 6 weeks old at that time. They stayed there some time and Elizabeth (daughter) married Jacob Stewart.
About 1870 the family moved to Georgia, settling on a farm near Cherry Log, GA, where Sarah married Melvin Fullen Davenport, John married Nancy E. Watkins, and Falba married Elijah Webster Kincaid (m. 5 May 1872). All making their homes near Blue Ridge, GA and raising large families. Elizabeth (mother) made her home with Elizabeth (daughter) and Jacob Stewart until her death, March 17, 1911. She is buried at Harmony Church about one mile east of Blue Ridge, on the Morgantown Hwy. Her daughter Elizabeth and Jacob Stewart are buried at Harmony.
