Clifford Davenport, age 20, only son of Mr. and Mrs. O.M. Davenport, 334 Hillside Street, Asheville, died Monday night at the Mission Hospital shortly after 7 o’clock as the result of wounds received while hunting Saturday by the accidental discharge of his own shotgun. The accident occurred in the vicinity of Mr. Meadows Inn, where Davenport, in company with George Davis, had run a rabbit into a hole and the victim was using his gun to dislodge it when the entire charged lodged in his right thigh, after grazing his right hand.
His companion ran three miles to get a car to carry him to the hospital. He had suffered from loss of blood and from exposure through lying in the snow a half hour, so that an operation was impossible. Gangrene soon set in and all hope of recovery was gone. George Davis never left the bedside of his dying friend.
Funeral services were held from the residence of his mother the following day at 4:30. Dr. R.J. Bateman, pastor of the First Baptist Church, of which the deceased was a member, officiated. The singers sweetly sang “Safe in the Arms of Jesus” and “Nearer My God to Thee.” The body was laid to rest beside his father, who died only a month ago, in Riverside cemetery. Many beautiful flowers were contributed. The heartfelt sympathy of a host of friends goes out to the bereaved ones and especially to the mother and sister. The deceased has a great many relatives in Henderson county, where he was favorably known.
From the front page of the Henderson News, January 20, 1922
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