Isabel Marie Devin

Notes:

DOB, DOD & POD from Soc. Sec. Index

Census:
1920 King Co WA Seattle Soundex: ED 24 Sh 1 w/mother (POB
= OH)

Isabel married Samuel Lane Croasdill 1924. Samuel was born 8 Jun 1896, Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S.A.; died 6 Apr 1983, Bremerton, Kitsap, Washington, U.S.A.. [Group Sheet]

1. Mary Croasdill was born 27 Mar 1931; died 21 Jan 2009, Poulsbo, Wasshington.

Notes:

!Questions: Birthdate October 8 1864 or May 8 1864

!Education: Graduated from High School at age 16
Graduated from University of Missouri
Studied education, science and civil
engineering
Took a course in Landscape Management from
Prof. Maximillian G. Kern (father of his
wife)

!Occupations: Taught for several years and took charge of
schools
in Shelbyville and Clarence Missouri
U S River Commission St Louis and Toledo
Missouri

!Miscellaneous: At the death of his parents, Olie went to
live with the
Solomon Smith a farmer. The Smiths gave
him a loving
home and Olie spent the next four year
going to high school
and helping on the farm. Solomon was a
conservative man
of the soil and had no use for higher
education. He felt
it frivolous waste of time that was an
excuse to keep one
from getting on with the realities of life.
Thus, when Olie
finished high school he got no
encouragement and certainly
no assistance toward further education.
DOB from Ancestral File; DOB poss. 8 May 1864

Census:
1900 Linn Co MO ED 83 Sh 7 L 16
1910
1920 Benton Co WA Soundex: ED 24 Sh 2 (w/2nd wife?)
DOB maybe 8 May 1864 (1).
Graduated from High School at age 16
Graduated from University of Missouri
Studied education, science & civil engineering
Took a course in Landscape Management from Prof.
Maximillian G. Kern,
father-in-law.

Taught for several years & took charge of schools in
Shelbyville & Clarence, MO
US River Commission, St Louis & Toledo, MO

At the death of his parents, Olie went to live with Solomon
Smith, a farmer.
The Smiths gave him a loving home & Olie spent the next
four years going to
high school & helping on the farm. Solomon was a
conservative man of the soil
& had no use for higher education. He felt it a frivolous
waste of time
that was an excuse to keep one from getting on with the
realities of life.
Thus, when Olie finished high school he got no
encouragement & certainly no
assistance toward further education.

Oliver married Mina Marie Kern 13 Sep 1888, St. Louis, Missouri. Mina (daughter of Maximillian G. Kern) was born 1864, Ohio U.S.A.; died 23 May 1943, Seattle, King, Washington U.S.A.. [Group Sheet]

Notes:

Census:
1920 King Co WA Seattle Soundex: ED 24 Sh 1 (husband not
shown)

Possibly divorced from Oliver Peyton Devin; he living in
Benton Co WA w/wife,
Ida.

Her father was was Prof. Maximillian G. Kern at the Univ.
of MO. He
frequently invited young men to his home for dinner or the
weekend who he felt
were worthy of his four lovely daughters' attention.
Oliver Peyton Devin was a
student in his Landscape Management class & was one of
these young men.
Lived in St. Louis.

DEATH: WA State Deaths; LAPL microfilm

Notes:

DoD and PoD maybe 22 Nov 1876 in Shelbyville, MO

Census:
1850 Gibson Co IN Patoka Twp p 2 w/parents
1860 Gibson Co IN Patoka Twp p 1091
1870 possibly in Shelby Co MO -- must check census

Per Ancestral File lived in Shelby Co MO

Alexander married Mary N. Durrah 20 Jan 1859, Gibson County, Indiana . Mary was born 15 Dec 1837, Mt. Vernon, Ohio; died 31 Aug 1876, Shelbyville, Shelby, Missouri ; was buried , Warnock Cemetery, Gibson County, Indiana. [Group Sheet]

Notes:

!Miscellaneous: A Teacher

Possible last name spelling: Darrah
A Teacher

Census:
1860 Gibson Co IN Patoka Twp p 1091


Mary N. Devin

This highly esteemed Christian woman departed this life after a protracted illness at Shelbyville on the 31st of August, 1876.

Mrs. Devin was born in Carroll county, Ohio, December 12th, 1837; was married to the now bereaved husband, Alexander C. Devin January 20th, 1859.

She united with the United Presbyterian Church, of Princeton Indiana in the spring of 1860, and moved with her husband to Shelbyville, March 8, 1867, and united with the Presbyterian church in this place the same year. Consumption was developed some three months before her death and rapidly carried her away. And in this providence the husband and family have suffered an irreparable loss; the church an exemplary and zealous member; the Sabbath School one of its most regular and efficient teachers and the community one universally respected and loved not only by the old but also by the young.

Though suffering much and long from great physical prostration, her constant testimony was that she was sustained by Divine grace. It seemed that while on her sick bed scarcely a shadow darkened the sight of faith--and her hope was an anchor both sure and steadfast. Indeed as she came down to the valley, so dark and shadowy to the natural eye, it seemed that her light increased and that she realized her greatest victory in death, for it had ho sting for her.

Her departure was her triumph, for she made it exclaiming, ?Come, Lord Jesus! Come quickly!' While her husband and four children mourn for her as for one whose ?price is far above rubbles,' they do not mourn as those who have no hope in their bereavement they have the sympathy of kind friends and the prayers of Christians. They have indeed their cloud, but the bow is very bright in the cloud, for there is an unshaken faith that she who was a vine by the side of their house has been transplanted to the paradise of God.

Mrs. Devin was followed to the grave by a large number of citizens testifying their respect and esteem. And it was a touching scene to see so many young, even the little children, following to the last resting place the remains of their teacher and friend.

She was lovely and pleasant in her life, and even in death they were not divided from her. Ought not everyone to whom this providence calls so loudly make their own the prayer ? let me die the death of the righteous, let my last end be like His. It is in such a life and in such a death that the Christian religion find its illustration, and its best vindication. They are fragrant fruits of the love of God shed abroad in the heart. To the writers own knowledge some have sat beside this disciple of Christ and fund her fruit sweet to their taste, for she was indeed a branch of the vine. Even during her sickness, she not only testified to the sustaining grace of Christ but labored with those inquiring the way of salvation. What an illustration of Christian devotion and love to the Master! Is there not a powerful appeal in this fact to all who are the Disciples of Christ, and who are blessed with health and strength to do with their might what their hands find to do? Is there not a powerful plea in it to those who do not believe in the Lord Jesus Christ to seek Him now while He may be found and to
call upon Him now while He is near.

Notes:

Maximillian Kern was a professor at the University of
Missouri. He frequently invited young men to his home for
dinner or the weekend who he felt were worthy of his four
lovely daughters' attention. Oliver Peyton Devin was one
of these young men as a student in his Landscape Management
class.

Lived in St. Louis, Missouri.

Notes:

DoD maybe 27 Feb 1862.

!Questions: Spelling of Middle Name Nowlin or Nolan
Census:
1850 Gibson Co IN Patoka Twp p 2
1860 Gibson Co IN Patroka Twp p 1077......

He & Jane lived on the cross road from Lathom Mill to the
State Road just south
of what is now the Country Club, near Devin School House.
Maybe in or near
Princeton, IN. Resembled Lincoln.

DOB & POB from Ancestral File

!MARRIAGE: Gibson Co IN: Ind. Source Book II;
Pom.Lib.R929.3772 Ind.V.2

!Death Notice in The Princeton Clarion; he died at home.
Gibson Co IN Source Book V.1 Obituaries & Death Notices
Carlsbad Gen 977.235 V28 NOL V.1

!NAME:Ten Generations of Rev. Alexander Devin, Ten
Generations of Rev. Alexander Devin, Truitt, Joyce Nell,
dated 19981101; page 14

!BIRTH:Ten Generations of Rev. Alexander Devin, Ten
Generations of Rev. Alexander Devin, Truitt, Joyce Nell,
dated 19981101; page 14

!DEATH:Ten Generations of Rev. Alexander Devin, Ten
Generations of Rev. Alexander Devin, Truitt, Joyce Nell,
dated 19981101; page 14

!BURIAL:Ten Generations of Rev. Alexander Devin, Ten
Generations of Rev. Alexander Devin, Truitt, Joyce Nell,
dated 19981101; page 14

Peyton married Jane Hudelson 18 Oct 1832, Gibson County, Indiana U.S.A.. Jane (daughter of Alexander Hudelson and Mary Crawford) was born 22 Aug 1811, Nicholas County, Kentucky U.S.A.; died 25 Sep 1892, Princeton, Gibson, Indiana U.S.A.; was buried , Devin Plot, Warnock Cemetery, Princeton, Indiana . [Group Sheet]

Notes:

!Questions: Last Name Huddleson or Hudleson or Hudelston

Census:
1850 Gibson Co IN Patoka Twp p 2
1860 Gibson Co IN Patoka Twp p 1077
1870 Gibson Co IN Patoka Twp p 333

Jane's name maybe Ione Hudelston per "Indiana Marriage
Through 1850 Index"

MARRIAGE: Gibson Co IN: Ind. Source Book II;
Pom.Lib.R929.3772 Ind.V.2

Died at the home of her sister, Isabella, in Princeton, IN.
Buried Devin Plot, Warnock Cemetery, Princeton, IN.

Mother: Bell ( ) Hudelson

!NAME:Ten Generations of Rev. Alexander Devin, Ten
Generations of Rev. Alexander Devin, Truitt, Joyce Nell,
dated 19981101; page 14

!BIRTH:Ten Generations of Rev. Alexander Devin, Ten
Generations of Rev. Alexander Devin, Truitt, Joyce Nell,
dated 19981101; page 14

!DEATH:Ten Generations of Rev. Alexander Devin, Ten
Generations of Rev. Alexander Devin, Truitt, Joyce Nell,
dated 19981101; page 14

Notes:

Married:
!MARRIAGE:Indiana Marriages Through 1850 Index, Indiana
Marriages Through 1850 Index