News: Looking for females who are in the pure female lines (mother to daughter) from William and Sarah who are willing to do an mtDNA test. Such a person would be descended along an all female line from Mary DEVIN Biggers or Margaret DEVIN Reynolds. The hope is to identify the markers for Sarah SMITH Devin to help identify her parents. Contact the webmaster if interested.

Devin descendant, Stanley Wayne Devin, passed away at 1:30 a.m. on Dec. 4, 2014. He was the last living child of Ira & Oleta Devin.
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    William Devin

    Male Abt 1853 - Abt 1897  (44 years)


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    Generation: 1

    1. 1.  William Devin was born about 1853 in Tennessee U.S.A. (son of Joseph Devin and Sarah A. Brown); died about 1897 in Arkansas U.S.A..

      Notes:

      named in will of grandfather, John Devin

      Coleen G. says his POD was "Rockhouse in Arkansas"


    Generation: 2

    1. 2.  Joseph Devin was born about 1825 in Virginia U.S.A. (son of John Devin and Ann Bibb Nowlin); died in 1863 in Vicksburg, Warren, Missouri U.S.A..

      Notes:

      Poss. b. @ 1821 in Marshall Co TN per Ancestral File

      !MARRIAGE: Marshall Co TN record by Sistler

      Census:
      1850 Marshall Co TN p 98A
      1860 Marshall Co TN p 103

      DOD from Nowlin-Stone Genealogy; publ. 1916 SLC, UT

      Joseph married Sarah A. Brown on 15 Jul 1849 in Marshall County, Tennessee U.S.A.. Sarah was born about 1829 in North Carolina U.S.A.. [Group Sheet]


    2. 3.  Sarah A. Brown was born about 1829 in North Carolina U.S.A..

      Notes:

      Name from Nowlin-Stone Genealogy; publ. 1916, SLC, UT

      !MARRIAGE: Marshall Co TN record by Sistler

      Census:
      1850 Marshall Co TN p 98A
      1860 Marshall Co TN p 103
      1870 Marshall Co TN p 191 (widow)

      Children:
      1. Hattie Devin
      2. Elvira Ann Devin was born on 21 Jan 1851 in Tennessee U.S.A.; died on 04 Mar 1914 in Madison County, Arkansas U.S.A..
      3. 1. William Devin was born about 1853 in Tennessee U.S.A.; died about 1897 in Arkansas U.S.A..
      4. Mary E. R. Devin was born about 1856 in Tennessee U.S.A..
      5. James Brown Devin was born on 04 Feb 1860 in Tennessee U.S.A.; died on 31 Jul 1935 in Marshall County, Oklahoma U.S.A.; was buried in Powell Cemetery, Marshall, Oklahoma U.S.A..


    Generation: 3

    1. 4.  John Devin was born on 12 Sep 1793 in Pittsylvania County, Virginia U.S.A. (son of Joseph Devin and Elizabeth Nowlin); died on 12 Jan 1877 in Marshall County, Tennessee U.S.A.; was buried in Myres-Devin-Madison Cemetery, Lewisburg, Marshal, Tennessee U.S.A..

      Notes:

      Named in Pittsylvania Co VA Court Records Book #13 as child of Joseph Devin

      !MARRIAGE:
      1st: Pittsylvania Co VA
      2nd:

      Census:
      possibly living Lincoln Co TN 1820
      1830
      1840
      1850 Marshall Co TN p 98A
      1860 Marshall Co TN p 126A
      1870 Marshall Co TN p 190

      Marshall Co TN formed in 1836.

      From Nowlin-Stone Genealogy; publ. 1916 SLC, UT; this record says his DOB is 12 Sept 1793 & DOD 12 June 1879: This record says his DOB is 12 Sep 1792 & his DOD is 12 June 1877; buried
      Myres-Devin-Madison Cemetery, Marshall Co TN; Tombstone Inscriptions of
      Marshall Co TN; by Whitesell; Raleigh NC State Library; GR 929.3 T2 MARS W594t V.l

      He & his wife had other unknown children who died & were not named.
      Per Ethel S. Mattingley FHC #0928908 John & Rebecca had 10 children.

      John married Ann Bibb Nowlin on 06 Nov 1823 in Pittsylvania County, Virginia U.S.A.. Ann (daughter of Rev. David Nowlin and Lucy Hensley) was born about 1797 in Pittsylvania County, Virginia U.S.A.; died in 1835. [Group Sheet]


    2. 5.  Ann Bibb Nowlin was born about 1797 in Pittsylvania County, Virginia U.S.A. (daughter of Rev. David Nowlin and Lucy Hensley); died in 1835.

      Notes:

      YOB from IGI

      MARRIAGE: Pittsylvania Co VA

      Name from Nowlin-Stone Genealogy; publ. 1916, SLC, UT

      DOD via Ethel S. Mattingley FHC #0928908

      Buried Myres-Devin-Madison Cemetery, Marshall Co TN; Tombstone Inscriptions of
      Marshall Co TN; by Whitesell; Raleigh NC State Library; GR 929.3 T2 MARS W594t
      V.l

      Notes:

      3 November 1823. John DEVIN and Ann Bibb Nowlin, dau. of David Nowlin who consents. Sur. John Douglass. Married 6 Nov. by the Rev. Griffith Dickinson. p. 77 from: Williams, Kathleen Booth, "Marriages of Pittsylvania County Virginia; 1806-1830", (Genealogical Publishing County, Inc.; Baltimore; 1980), page 40.

      Children:
      1. Sarah Ann Devin
      2. infant Devin
      3. 2. Joseph Devin was born about 1825 in Virginia U.S.A.; died in 1863 in Vicksburg, Warren, Missouri U.S.A..
      4. Elizabeth Devin was born about 1826 in Marshall County, Tennessee U.S.A..
      5. David William Devin was born on 12 Mar 1830 in Marshall County, Tennessee U.S.A.; died on 12 Jul 1911 in Marshall County, Tennessee U.S.A..


    Generation: 4

    1. 8.  Joseph Devin was born on 17 Sep 1760 (son of William Devin, Sr. and Sarah Smith); died on 26 May 1804 in Pittsylvania County, Virginia U.S.A..

      Notes:

      DOB from Ancestral File
      YOD & POD from Nowlin-Stone Genealogy, publ. 1916 SLC, UT
      FHC #0928908 compiled by Ethel S. Mattingley says his DOD was 1804 that an
      inventory was filed 17 Sep 1804 in Pittsylvania Co VA

      Joseph married Elizabeth Nowlin on 16 February 1789 in Pittsylvania County, Virginia U.S.A.. Elizabeth (daughter of Bryan Ward Nowlin and Lucy Wade) was born on 20 March 1766 in Halifax County, Virginia U.S.A.; died on 17 February 1847 in Lewisburg, Marshall, Tennessee U.S.A.. [Group Sheet]


    2. 9.  Elizabeth Nowlin was born on 20 March 1766 in Halifax County, Virginia U.S.A. (daughter of Bryan Ward Nowlin and Lucy Wade); died on 17 February 1847 in Lewisburg, Marshall, Tennessee U.S.A..

      Notes:

      MARRIAGE: Pittsylvania Co VA record

      Named in will of father: 1810 Pittsylvania Co VA

      Per Tennessee Tidbits 1778-1914, V.II; she probably was alive in 1838/1839
      possibly in Bedford Co TN.

      DOB () & POB from IGI & from Nowlin-Stone Genealogy, publ. 1916 SLC, UT
      Nowlin-Stone Genealogy says she died in 30.June.1835 in Marshall Co TN, which is incorrect. She was part of a Court Case adjudicated in December 1839 ["Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Supreme Court of Tennessee"; West Hughes Humphreys; pages 66-740]
      "The Devin Family" says Elizabeth is the daughter of Edward and Mary Wade Nowlin of Virginia; page 37. However, on page 2, a quote from the will of Bryan Ward Nowlin says Elizabeth is his daughter.

      Notes:

      16.Feb.1789 Joseph Devin and Elizabeth Nowlin surety William Devin Richard Elliott (devin file at Pedmont Genealogical Society in Danville VA Public Library from research by Anna D. Evans 07.May.1985)

      Children:
      1. William Bryan Ward Devin was born about 1789 in Pittsylvania County, Virginia U.S.A.; died in 1840.
      2. Lucy Devin was born about 1790 in , , Virginia, USA.
      3. Susannah Devin was born about 1792; died after 1838.
      4. 4. John Devin was born on 12 Sep 1793 in Pittsylvania County, Virginia U.S.A.; died on 12 Jan 1877 in Marshall County, Tennessee U.S.A.; was buried in Myres-Devin-Madison Cemetery, Lewisburg, Marshal, Tennessee U.S.A..
      5. Elizabeth Peyton Devin was born about 1797 in Pittsylvania County, Virginia U.S.A.; died on 10 Apr 1879.

    3. 10.  Rev. David Nowlin was born on 15 Aug 1775 in Pittsylvania County, Virginia (son of Bryan Ward Nowlin and Lucy Wade); died on 11 Aug 1838 in Madison County, Alabama U.S.A..

      David married Lucy Hensley on 06 Dec 1794 in Pittsylvania County, Virginia U.S.A.. [Group Sheet]


    4. 11.  Lucy Hensley
      Children:
      1. James Nowlin
      2. 5. Ann Bibb Nowlin was born about 1797 in Pittsylvania County, Virginia U.S.A.; died in 1835.
      3. Bryan Ward Nowlin was born on 19 Oct 1797 in Pittsylvania County, Virginia U.S.A.; died on 01 Jul 1868.
      4. Wade Nowlin was born on 08 Sep 1799; died in May 1844.
      5. Catherine Augusta Nowlin was born on 26 Feb 1802.