• This photograph of Harvey Devoe comes from late in his life. After a year of battling cancer that attacked his hand and shoulder, Harvey passed away in October of 1914, and is buried in Fredericktown.

  • This photograph was taken of members of the 142nd Ohio Volunteer Infantry during a reunion many years after the Civil War. Harvey followed his brother Ed’s lead late in the war and enlisted, serving for three months. Harvey can be seen, back row center.

  • Harvey and his second wife Eliza Jane with daughters Carrie (rear) and Fanny (front) in 1893.

  • This house on Gregg Road east of Palmyra was originally the home of George Gibson. He left it to his daughter Eliza Jane, who was Harvey’s Devoe’s second wife. Harvey and Eliza Jane lived there with their children for many years.

  • This powder horn was passed down from Harvey to his daughter Carrie to her son Robert to his son Pat. It may very well be the powder horn Harvey took when he did the squirrel hunting described in his diary.

  • Detail of the powder horn.

  • This canteen belonged to Harvey Devoe, and could well have accompanied him on his hunting expeditions.

  • This month ends our year-long project of following the daily life in 1861 of Knox County farmer Harvey Devoe, pictured here with his wife Martha from around the time this diary was written.

Newspack Team

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