News:After 30 years, Devin Timber is being decommissioned!After January 2027, this site will no longer be available. Web hosting costs continue to raise at rates that cannot be sustained on a limited income. In addition, finding volunteer expertise needed to administer the technical side of hosting a site, such as this, is challenging.
A Devin Timber group project has been set up at FamilySearch.org. FamilySearch has the tools and the long experience with collaborative genealogy and is available to everyone without cost. All documents and citations found on the current Devin Timber are being migrated to the records on FamilySearch.
If you have access to Ancestry, a public member tree, named "Devin Progeny," is a copy of the tree on the current Devin Timber. The Devin Progeny tree is being used to help evaluate research accuracy using the DNA samples from descendants of William & Sarah Devin. The Ancestry Devin Progeny tree will not be supported with documentation or citations due to the cost of Ancestry subscriptions.
Alfred Benton West Hughes Photograph Photograph found in the bottom of a trunk owned by Letha WILSON Swart. Cropped from a colorized photograph with his wife.
Charles Wesley Wells & Davenport girls (c.Nov. 1958) Quote: "This photo made in Sally Fannie's frontyard. I believe Charlie is 90ish. He looks great! I have fond memories of him. I felt safe near him." Photograph was taken 18 months after his wife Ida died.
Charlie Wesley Wells & Ida Rebecca HANKINS Wells (1954) My great-grandparents home, a log house in Grady, Va. My mother took the picture on her Brownie camera. Charlie died when I was 7. Ida died when I was 3. I do not remember her. After Ida died, Charlie went to live with Sally Fannie and Jim Reynolds. He ran Grady store until near his death. Charlie died at their home in the front bedroom. I remember him well." Picture was taken threee years before Ida died.
