Martha Clay Davenport

Martha Irvine Clay Davenport

• American

Martha Clay Davenport, born into the distinguished Kentucky household of Brutus J Clay, was reared amid the political convictions and agricultural pursuits that marked her fatherEs public life. In time she wed Henry Bedinger Davenport, a Virginian who cast his lot with the Confederate cause during the American Civil War, and thus her own path was drawn between the divided loyalties of Unionist kin and a husband in the Confederate Army. - AsNotedIn

Lineage

• Father Brutus J Clay

• Son: Henry Bedinger Davenport Jr