Julian French Devereux
(1886-1920)
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Major Julian French Devereux
Maternal Grandfather of Major Julian French Devereux
Gravestone, Major Julian French Devereux, Lake View Cemetery, Cleveland, OH
2525 Euclid Ave., Cleveland, OH, one of the Devereaux family homes
Julian French Devereux
[It is unclear why Major Julian French Devereux is memorialized on Liberty Row, as he was honorably discharged on 1/4/1919 and died a year later on 2/18/1920.]
*No plaque found
*The List of Liberty Row Names indicates the possible original location of the plaque.
*No soldier photograph found in the following book: Doyle, A. C., Haulsee, W. M., Howe, F. G. Soldiers of the Great War. Washington, DC: Soldiers Record Publishing Company, 1920.
Birth: 3/4/1886, Cleveland, Ohio
Birth: 3/4/1886, Cleveland, Ohio
Address: The family lived at several residences, along with multiple servants, including 2525 Euclid Ave., Cleveland, OH in a home (1889) on Millionaire's Row designed by architect Charles F. Scheinfurth; 28400 Euclid Ave., Wickliffe, OH at Nutwood Farm in an area of summer homes for Cleveland's wealthy industrialists; and at a home in Thomasville, Georgia.
Demographics: married; Caucasian; native-born Clevelander; attended private schools in Cleveland and Massachusetts and attended Yale University; occupation in 1916 City Directory and 1920 Census listed as Sales Manager at a Factory; at the time of his death he was a Sales Manager at Browning Engineering Co., Cleveland, OH; draft registration not found
Appearance: see photo at left
Marriage: 5/27/1911 married Sarah Burt Clay (1890-1978) and had two children: Henry Kelsey Devereux II (1913-1977) and Mildred Devereux. In 1923, his widow applied for a passport in for the purpose of temporary residence in Paris for the education of her children and for European travel. She remarried in 1938 to Clarence Aspinwall Murfey who predeceased her.
Draft Date/Enlistment Date/Rank: draft date not known; enlistment date 7/15/1917; Rank Major
Draft Date/Enlistment Date/Rank: draft date not known; enlistment date 7/15/1917; Rank Major
Service Number: 154513
Deployment: deployment record not found
Action:
Death: Honorable discharge 1/4/1919. Died 2/19/1920 at age 33; cause of death Bronchopneumonia with the contributory factor of Chronic Myocarditis
Death: Honorable discharge 1/4/1919. Died 2/19/1920 at age 33; cause of death Bronchopneumonia with the contributory factor of Chronic Myocarditis
Burial: Funeral 2/21/1920 at Nutwood Farm, Wickliffe, OH. Burial 2/23/1920 at Lake View Cemetery, 12316 Euclid Ave., Cleveland, OH, Section 8 Lot 180 alongside his parents buried later
Burial: Funeral 2/21/1920 at Nutwood Farm, Wickliffe, OH. Burial 2/23/1920 at Lake View Cemetery, 12316 Euclid Ave., Cleveland, OH, Section 8 Lot 180 alongside his parents buried later
Next of Kin: not recorded
Additional Information:
There is abundant information about this family in the Encyclopedia of Cleveland History, the archives of the Western Reserve Historical Society, and on the findagrave.com websites for multiple family members.
Father: Henry "Harry" Kelsey Devereux (1859-1932), born Ohio to a wealthy family, married 1885, occupations listed by Western Reserve Historical Society as: engineer, real estate agent, industrialist, philanthropist, and harness-horse fancier, buried Lake View Cemetery, Cleveland, OH; Mother: Mildred Abeel French Devereux (1862-1945), born Ohio to a wealthy family that owned the estate Nutwood Farm in Wickliffe, OH, married 1885, buried Lake View Cemetery, Cleveland, OH; Siblings: Aileen Mildred Devereux Winslow (1893-1951); Virginia Devereux (1895-1896), who died of Pneumonia at 8 months of age
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