LU112.40

Print, Photographic

1919

Jennie Devereaux Shell (top); bottom left: Harriet Devereaux Davis; bottom right: Nellie Devereaux Dunham Graham. (After husband Oliver Dunham's death, Nellie remarried to Byron Graham in 1918). Photo dated 1919 in Janesville. The house (not seen in picture) was located at 205 North Mott Street, Janesville, Minnesota. The house in the far background was built in 1903 by Dr. Martin and Stella Carpenter Taylor. Black and white photographic print from the album of Mark Benjamin Devereaux; scanned image.

Images were donated by the descendant of Marquis Lafayette Devereaux, Civil War veteran who was born in Busti, Chautauqua County, New York on February 13, ca. 1831 to Enoch Devereaux and Abigail Ellis Devereaux; moved to Wisconsin in 1851, then 1856 to 1861 lived in Concord, Minnesota, Dodge County. He enlisted in Company C, 2nd Minnesota Volunteers; ca. 1864 (according to Civil War Pension papers) he was boarding at the house of Mrs. Louisa Cummins; on March 11, 1865 he married Harriet Mariah Cummins, the daughter of John and Louisa Cummins, Waseca County. Marquis and Harriet had the following children: (1) Clara Louise Devereaux born 1868, died 1884. (2) Maurice Alvin Devereaux born 1870, died 1928. (3) Jennie Calista Devereaux born 1872, died 1944. (4) Amy Gladys Devereaux born 1874, died 1945. (5) Nellie Myrtle Devereaux born 1876, died 1919. (6) Harriet Alberta Devereaux born 1881, died 1881. Marquis L. Devereaux died Feb. 25, 1883, and buried in the Janesville Cemetery.