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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    John Wells Dawes[1]

    Male 1855 - 1908  (52 years)


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    • Name John Wells Dawes  [2
      Born 02 May 1855  Jefferson County, New York U.S.A. Find all individuals with events at this location 
      Gender Male 
      Died 1908 
      Notes 
      • [DAWES2.FTW]

        From Histroy of Wood County Wisconsin 1924 Page 669

        John W. Dawes, who for many years before his death was a well-known resident of Wood County. In 1863 he came with his parents to Waterloo Wisconsin, where at the age of 15 he began to learn the mason's trade. This
        he subsequently followed at Waterloo during the summer months, spending the winter months with his family in Wood County, assisting in the development of their property here. Later he bought a tract of wild land in this county, which he and one of his brothers cleared, and were he established his home, being engaged in general farming until his death in 1908.
      Person ID I1750  Devin Timber
      Last Modified 24 Apr 2012 

      Father William Campbell Daw,   b. 14 Nov 1817, Peasmarsh, Sussex, England Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 22 Aug 1892, Wood Township, Wisconsin U.S.A. Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 74 years) 
      Mother Laura Sarah Goodrich,   b. 20 Jan 1832, Rodman, Jefferson, New York U.S.A. Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 25 Jan 1913, Wood Township, Wisconsin U.S.A. Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 81 years) 
      Married 12 Mar 1850 
      Family ID F0539  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

      Family Helen Mending 
      Married 17 Aug 1894 
      Children 
       1. Louisa Dawes,   b. 17 Mar 1900, Wood County, Wisconsin U.S.A. Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. Mar 1948  (Age 47 years)
      +2. Carl Dawes,   b. 08 Aug 1907, Wood County, Wisconsin U.S.A. Find all individuals with events at this location
      Last Modified 3 May 2010 
      Family ID F0542  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    • Sources 
      1. [S67810] U.S. Census 1880: Wisconsin, Wood county, Wood (ED:233); page 10, line 29, 17-19 June 1880.

      2. [S05433] Some of the Ancestors and Descendants of Samuel Converse, Jr., Charles Allen Converse, (Eben Putnam, Publisher, Boston, Mass. 1905), page 113.