Edith Edna Tompkins

(April 1865 - 7 February 1944)
Pedigree - three generations
Date this page was last edited=25 Jan 2014
Appears on chart or charts:
Descendants of Nicolas de Vaux (b. about 1642)
Descendants of Frederick de Veaux (b. about 1645)
Descendants of Miles Oakley (1645 - 1682)
John Herbert and Edith Edna DeVoe
Photo from Sandra M. DeVoe, 13 July 2004
Edith Edna Tompkins was born in April 1865 at 7 Harmon Street, White Plains, Westchester County, New York.1,2,3 She was the daughter of Thomas T. Tompkins and Catherine ____.2,3

Edith Edna Tompkins married John Herbert DeVoe, son of Isaac DeVoe and Cordelia A. Oakley, on 21 June 1888 at 7 Harmon Street, White Plains, Westchester County, New York.4,5,3 Edith Edna Tompkins and John Herbert DeVoe lived at 5 Harmon Street, White Plains, Westchester County, New York, beginning about 1895, in a house built by his father.3

Edith Edna Tompkins appeared on the census of 21 June 1900 at Greenburgh Township, Westchester County, New York, with her husband and children in the household of her father.2

Edith Edna Tompkins appeared on the census of 15 April 1910 at 5 Harmon Street, White Plains Village, Westchester County, New York, in the household of her husband.6

Edith Edna Tompkins appears in a photograph of a fourth-of-July picnic at the Anderson estate on Post Road in White Plains, probably taken around 1918.7

Edith Edna Tompkins appeared on the census of 14 January 1920 at 5 Harmon Street, White Plains, Westchester County, New York, in the household of her husband.8

Edith Edna Tompkins appeared on the census of 19 April 1930 at 5 Harmon Street, White Plains, Westchester County, New York, in the household of her husband.1 In 1938, on the occasion of their golden wedding anniversary, a newspaper article stated that Mr. and Mrs. J. Herbert DeVoe were active members of the Memorial Methodist Episcopal Church.3

Edith Edna Tompkins appears in a group photograph possibly taken at the time of her and her husband's fiftieth wedding anniversary in 1938.

Edith Edna Tompkins appeared on the census of 22 April 1940 at Armonk, Westchester County, New York, in the household of her son Albert LeRoy DeVoe.9

Edith Edna Tompkins died on 7 February 1944 at age 78.10,11

Children of Edith Edna Tompkins and John Herbert DeVoe

Citations

  1. [S244] Herbert J. Devoe household, 1930 U.S. census, Westchester County, New York, White Plains, enumeration district 352.
  2. [S255] Thomas T. Tompkins household, 1900 U.S. census, Westchester County, New York, Greenburgh Township, enumeration district 67.
  3. [S378] Reporter Dispatch, June 22, 1938, 6.
  4. [S3] DeVoe family bible.
  5. [S377] Marriage certificate, John Herbert Devoe and Edith E. Tompkins.
  6. [S260] Herbert J. Devoe household, 1910 U.S. census, Westchester County, New York, Greenburgh Township, White Plains Village, enumeration district 37.
  7. [S262] Taped interview, Frank Kenneth DeVoe, probably 26 December 1992.
  8. [S241] John H. DeVoe household, 1920 U.S. census, Westchester County, New York, White Plains, enumeration district 188.
  9. [S783] Albert Devoe household, 1940 U.S. census, Westchester County, New York, Armonk, North Castle Township.
  10. [S4] Notes made by Frederick M. DeVoe from bible belonging to Albert DeVoe.
  11. [S514] Pages from address book that belonged to Minnie Ethel DeVoe, transcript and photocopies from Sandra DeVoe, 13 July 2004, subject listed as "Edith."

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