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The Goldendale Sentinel, Goldendale, WA., January 25, 1934, page 5

ALEX DAVENPORT

Alex Davenport, familiarly known to all as "Eck,"who died at St. Elizabeth's hospital in Yakima on January 17th, 1934, and was buried from Holy Trinity Catholic Church, Goldendale, on January 19th, Rev. T.A. Edwards officiating, and placed beside his wife in the Catholic cemetery near Goldendale, was born September 19th, 1872, in Oregon, of Russell D. and Belle Davenport. At an early age he came to the Klickitat prairie with his parents, who permanently settled ten miles east of Goldendale on the Goodnoe Hills road. On December 1st, 1898, he married Mary Ellen Colleary, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. William Colleary of the Pleasant Valley section. The young couple eventually established their home on the old Davenport farm.
Of this union six children were born, one of whom died in infancy. The living are: Mrs. Nellie Rauscher, of Goldendale; Paul, of Yakima; James, of Sunnyside, all of whom are married; Leo and Henry, who live on the old farm. There are four grandchildren. He is also survived by four brothers and one sister: Henry, Frank and Fred, of Yakima; Clyde, of Sundale; Mrs. William Colleary, of Toppenish. All were present at his funeral.
After the death of his wife last spring, he seemed to lose that heretofore ever lively interest in life; at the same time he was himself afflicted with a disease that finally wore him out. It was but natural, therefore, that with Salomon he could say that this world is vanity of vanities, and the intention expressed after the death of his wife he fulfilled the day before he died - he was baptized in the Catholic religion. His relatives and many friends will treasure his memory and the roster of later Klickitat pioneers receives one more who lived up to the traditions of our American ideals, without which the progress of the past could not have been accomplished, nor the future augur continued success in solving the difficult problems yet to come.