John McDeavitt

NOT A DIRECT ANCESTOR John McDeavitt is not in my direct ancestry. He is related by marriage in the following ways: Husband of Jane St. Clair Son-in-law of Archibald St. Clair

	Date	Location	Notes	Sources
Birth	~1799	Slippery Rock Twp., Butler Co. (present-day Brady Twp. portion)
Marriage			To Jane St. Clair
Death	1851	Louisville, KY business trip

Ancestry chart segment

 Generation 6             Generation 7               
 
                                                 
                                                 
                     +-- Archibald St. Clair 
                     |   (????-???)            
+ --Jane St. Clair --+                         
|(????-????)         | 
|                    +--  Unknown 
|                         (1770-80 - 1840-50) 
|                         
|                  +--Daniel McDeavitt
|                  |    (????-1805) 
+--John McDeavitt--+
                   |
                   +-- Elizabeth Sturgeon                             

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Children

Not known to have had children; see Source Notes.

Places of Residence

Location	Dates	Notes	Sources
Slippery Rock Twp., Butler Co. PA	by 1840-1850

Sources

Ref. Num.	Description	Image of original
1	1840 United States Federal Census, Slippery Rock Twp, Butler Co, PA, page 3. Family headed by John McDiffitt: 1 male 40-50, 1 female 40-50.
2	1850 United States Federal Census, Slippery Rock Twp., Butler Co. PA. Date of Census 9 Aug 1850. John McDevitt age 51, farmer; Jane McDevitt age 54. both born PA.
3	1860 United States Federal Census, Brady Township, Butler County, PA, Page 14. Census dated 8 June 1860. Lines 10-14: Archibald Hoge, age 43, farmer, $2500 real, $590 personal property; Jane McDivitt, 65; Rebecca Hoge, 17, in school; Margaret, 15, in school; Mary A., 12, in school. All b. PA. Lines 15-18: James I. Hoge, 64, married to Margaret Hoge, 64; son John I. Hoge, 20; Cardalia Hoge, 4. James I. Hoge is a farmer. Everyone was born in PA. Two houses down is the family of Richard Hines, Jr. and Elizabeth Brandon. Note: Apparently John McDeavitt is deceased, and his widow, Jane St. Clair McDeavitt, is living with her nephew, Archibald Hogue. Archibald (the son of James Irvin Hogue & Margaret St. Clair), has also lost a spouse. Next door are the parents of Archibald Hogue (the wife being Jane McDeavitt's sister). . Note: Per the will of James I. Hogue, Cordelia is his granddaughter, the daughter of Rachel Hogue Douglass.
4	1883 History of Butler County PA, by Waterman, p. 363 extract: Daniel McDeavitt, native of Ireland, moved from Newcastle,Delaware to Greensburg; thence in 1797 to Butler County, settling in Brady Twp. with his wife and 3 children. Mrs. McDeavitt rode horseback, carrying her youngest child, James, while Catharine, aged nine years, and Henry, aged seven, drove two cows. Third child, James, resided in the 2nd house built by Daniel McDeavitt, a hewed log structure build in 1815; James died in 1882, aged 85 yrs. The children of Daniel and Elizabeth (Sturgeon) McDeavitt were as follows: Catharine, Henry, James and John. Catherine and James both remained single. Henry married Jane McClymonds for his first wife, and Mrs. Rebecca Bell for his second. Six children were born of the first wife, and one of the second. All are now living except one. John married Jane St. Clair, and died while absent on business at Louisville, Ky., in 1851 . Catharine died in 1864; Henry in 1876. He was an 1812 soldier. Daniel McDeavitt, the father, died in 1805 at the age of forty-nine. His widow survived until 1835."	(See complete text)
5	Personal correspondence from Elizabeth Wilson Williams]	N/A

Source notes

• John McDeavitt is not one of the 3 children of his father who arrived with him in Brady Twp., Butler Co. in 1797; he therefore must have been born in Brady Twp. between 1797, and the death of his father in 1804.
• John McDeavitt and Jane St. Clair may have been childless. In the 1840 census no children are listed. The McDeavitts were in their late 40's and any children could have left home by then. However, as a widow in 1860, Jane lived with a nephew. This could suggest she had no children, but could also be explained simply by the fact that the nephew was a widower with daughters and Aunt Jane was available to help out.
• Many McDeavitts are buried at West Liberty Cemetery; however, no stone was found for John & Jane McDeavitt there.

Research Wishlist

• burial site; will; biography.