Isaac DeVoe

(23 August 1809 - 21 March 1890)
Pedigree - three generations
Date this page was last edited=25 Jan 2014
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Ancestors of Frank Kenneth DeVoe (1908 - 1998)
Descendants of Nicolas de Vaux (b. about 1642)
Descendants of Frederick de Veaux (b. about 1645)
Descendants of Miles Oakley (1645 - 1682)
Isaac DeVoe was born on 23 August 1809.1,2,3,4 The records of the Old Dutch Church give on 24 August 1809.5 He was the son of John DeVoe and Elizabeth Landrine.6 Isaac DeVoe was baptized on 14 October 1809 at the Old Dutch Church, Sleepy Hollow, Westchester County, New York.5

Isaac DeVoe married first Susan Fox.7

Isaac DeVoe appeared on the census of 31 August 1850 at Mount Pleasant Township, Westchester County, New York, together with his mother Elizabeth Devoe, age 60; the value of his real estate is given as 3400.8 He was a cartman according to the August 1850 census.8 He married secondly Cordelia A. Oakley, daughter of William Oakley and Marcia Oakley, on 28 August 1859.1,9

Isaac DeVoe appeared on the census of 29 August 1860 at Mount Pleasant Township, Westchester County, New York, where the post office was shown as Tarrytown; the value of his real estate was given as 3000, and the value of his personal estate was given as 1000. In the same household, according to the 1860 census, were his wife Cordelia; their infant son James; a female servant, Margaret Brown, age 14; his mother-in-law Mercy Oakley, age 68; and Timothy Oakley, Day Laborer, age 38.10

Isaac DeVoe appeared on the census of 20 June 1870 at Mount Pleasant Township, Westchester County, New York, where the post office was shown as Tarrytown; the value of his personal estate was recorded as 100.11 He was a teamster according to the June 1870 census.11 He and Cordelia A. Oakley resided in 1876 in Tarrytown, Westchester County, New York.7

Isaac DeVoe appeared on the census of 21 June 1880 at North Tarrytown, Mount Pleasant Township, Westchester County, New York, where he is recorded was being sick with "malona."12

Isaac DeVoe died on 21 March 1890 at age 80.1,3,4 His place of burial is unknown; he is not recorded on the records of Sleepy Hollow Cemetery, Sleepy Hollow, New York.13

Children of Isaac DeVoe and Cordelia A. Oakley

Citations

  1. [S3] DeVoe family bible.
  2. [S1] De Voe, Genealogy of the de Veaux Family, 42 (only the year of birth is given).
  3. [S4] Notes made by Frederick M. DeVoe from bible belonging to Albert DeVoe.
  4. [S514] Pages from address book that belonged to Minnie Ethel DeVoe, transcript and photocopies from Sandra DeVoe, 13 July 2004.
  5. [S328] Bacon, First English Record Book of The Dutch Reformed Church in Sleepy Hollow, 67.
  6. [S1] De Voe, Genealogy of the de Veaux Family.
  7. [S1] De Voe, Genealogy of the de Veaux Family, 42.
  8. [S35] Isaac Devoe household, 1850 U.S. census, Westchester County, New York, Mount Pleasant Township.
  9. [S1] De Voe, Genealogy of the de Veaux Family, 42 (this book does not give the date or year).
  10. [S38] Isaac Devoe household, 1860 U.S. census, Westchester County, New York, Mount Pleasant Township.
  11. [S39] Isaac Devoe household, 1870 U.S. census, Westchester County, New York, New York.
  12. [S42] Isaac Devoe household, 1880 U.S. census, Westchester County, New York, Mount Pleasant Township, Enumeration District 108.
  13. [S658] Inquiry by H. DeVoe on 23 May, 2008 at Sleepy Hollow Cemetery office.

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