An American Family History

The Devault Family

Henry Dewald married Mary Catherine Greaver.

They came to America in 1766 and settled in Hanover, York County, Pennsylvania. Henry served in the American Revolution.

Henry made two trips to eastern Tennessee to buy land for his sons in Sullivan and Washington Counties.

Henry died on April 16, 1817 and Mary Catherine died on October 2, 1830.

Gabriel Devault (1767, married Magdalena Kitzmiller)
Catherine Devault (1769)
Mary Elizabeth Devault (1771),
Valentine (Felty) Devault (1776, married Susannah Range), and
Frederick Devault (1778, married Margaret Range).

Many of their children moved to Eastern Tennessee.

Henry and Gabriel came in October, 1797.

Valentine and Frederick settled in Washington County about 1800 on the 637 acre farm their father for them. The farm, on the Watauga River, became known as DeVault's Ford.

Valentine and his brother, Frederick, married sisters: Susan and Margaret Range.

In 1825, they bought land from Henry Massengill.

In 1829 they received a grant of 60 acres in Washington County that included part of the "Big Island" in the Watauga River.

Valentine died on August 10, 1842 and Susan died two days later of typhoid.

Gabriel Devault was born in 1767 in York County, Pennsylvania. He married Magdalena Kitzmiller. Magdalena was born in 1770 in York County.

Gabriel first settled in Washington County on the tract of land on the Watauga that was called DeVault's Ford.

The 1798 court

ordered that Gabriel Davault have leave to keep a ferry on the Watauga at John Bean's old Plantation.

Gabriel later joined his brother, Henry, in Sullivan County. They shared a farm south of the Holston River in Piney Flats. In 1820 Henry, sold his interest in the farm to Gabriel.

Gabriel and Magdalena's children included:
Samuel Devault (1791, married Martha (Patty) Crouch),
Mary Devault (1795, married Adam Giesler),
Jacob Devault (1796, married Mary Hodges),
Elizabeth Devault (1797, married Robert Hughes),
Anna Marie Devault (1797),
Catherine Devault ((1801, married Samuel Latture),
Henry Devault (1807, married Matilda Weaver),
John Devault (1808, married Julia Ann Blevins).

The Devault School was located along Rice Cross Road near Piney Flats

In 1829 Samuel Devault witnessed John Smith's will.

Valentine Davault was born in 1776 in Hanover, York County, Pennsylvania.

Frederick Devault

In 1819 Frederick moved to Leesburg built the DeVault Tavern