Brief Life History of Helen Antoinete
When Helen Antoinete Devoe was born in 1836, in Owasco, Owasco, Cayuga, New York, United States, her father, Benjamin Devoe, was 31 and her mother, Sarah Bevier, was 27. She married Erastus Lathrop Ripley in May 1857, in Ypsilanti, Washtenaw, Michigan, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 daughter. She died in 1863, at the age of 27, and was buried in Mount Evergreen Cemetery, Jackson, Jackson, Michigan, United States.
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- Helen A Devoe in household of Benjamin Devoe, "United States Census, 1850"
- Helen A. De Voe, "Michigan, Marriages, 1822-1995"
- Helen A Devoe Ripley, "Find a Grave Index"
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1836 · Remember the Alamo
Being a monumental event in the Texas Revolution, The Battle of the Alamo was a thirteen-day battle at the Alamo Mission near San Antonio. In the early morning of the final battle, the Mexican Army advanced on the Alamo. Quickly being overrun, the Texian Soldiers quickly withdrew inside the building. The battle has often been overshadowed by events from the Mexican–American War, But the Alamo gradually became known as a national battle site and later named an official Texas State Shrine.
1837
Michigan is the 26th state.
1846
U.S. acquires vast tracts of Mexican territory in wake of Mexican War including California and New Mexico.
Name Meaning
Americanized form of French Devaux or Deveau .
English (Middlesex): variant of Devo, itself a variant of Defoe in any of the possible senses and thus a possible cognate of 1 above and 3 below.
Americanized form of Swiss French Thévoz (see Defoe 1).
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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