Jacob Van Devanter (M)
b. 7 January 1787, d. 6 January 1840, #262674
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     Jacob Van Devanter was born on 7 January 1787 at Huntingdon County, Pennsylvania. He was the son of Peter VanDeventer and Margaret Miller. Jacob Van Devanter married Lydia Fee, daughter of John Fee and Patience Kelly, on 16 November 1813 at Huntingdon County, Pennsylvania. Jacob Van Devanter died on 6 January 1840 at LaGrange County, Indiana, at age 52.

Lydia Fee (F)
b. 23 March 1788, d. 13 September 1845, #262675
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     Lydia Fee was born on 23 March 1788 at Huntingdon County, Pennsylvania. She was the daughter of John Fee and Patience Kelly. Lydia Fee married Jacob Van Devanter, son of Peter VanDeventer and Margaret Miller, on 16 November 1813 at Huntingdon County, Pennsylvania. Lydia Fee died on 13 September 1845 at LeGrange County, Indiana, at age 57.

Isaac Van Devanter (M)
b. 28 May 1821, d. 26 November 1898, #262676
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     Isaac Van Devanter was born on 28 May 1821 at Delaware now Morrow County, Ohio. He was the son of Jacob Van Devanter and Lydia Fee. Isaac Van Devanter married Violetta Margaret Spencer, daughter of Jacob Welch Spencer and Eleanor Louise Moeller, on 20 September 1858 at Marion, Grant County, Indiana. Isaac Van Devanter died on 26 November 1898 at Marion, Grant County, Indiana, at age 77.

Violetta Margaret Spencer (F)
b. 18 May 1838, d. 13 February 1933, #262677
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     Violetta Margaret Spencer was born on 18 May 1838 at Ohio. Violetta Margaret Spencer was born on 18 May 1838 at Somerset, Perry County, Pennsylvania. She was the daughter of Jacob Welch Spencer and Eleanor Louise Moeller. Violetta Margaret Spencer married Isaac Van Devanter, son of Jacob Van Devanter and Lydia Fee, on 20 September 1858 at Marion, Grant County, Indiana. Violetta Margaret Spencer was also known as Violetta Maria Spencer. She died on 13 February 1933 at age 94. She died on 13 February 1933 at age 94.

Associate Justice Willis Van Devanter (M)
b. 17 April 1859, d. 8 February 1941, #262678
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     Associate Justice Willis Van Devanter was born on 17 April 1859 at Marion, Grant County, Indiana. He was the son of Isaac Van Devanter and Violetta Margaret Spencer. Associate Justice Willis Van Devanter married Dollie Burhans on 10 October 1883 at Ionia, Ionia County, Michigan. Associate Justice Willis Van Devanter gave oath of allegiance between 1911 and 1937 at Washington, District of Columbia; Associate Justice of the Supreme Court.
Associate Justice Willis Van Devanter and Dollie Burhans appeared on the census of 1920 at Washington, District of Columbia. Associate Justice Willis Van Devanter died on 8 February 1941 at Washington, District of Columbia, at age 81. He was buried at Rock Creek Cemetery, Washington, District of Columbia.

WILLIS VAN DEVANTER was born on April 17, 1859, in Marion, Indiana. He received a law degree from the University of Cincinnati Law School in 1881 and joined his father’s law firm in Marion. Three years later, Van Devanter moved to Cheyenne, Wyoming Territory, and established his own practice. Van Devanter served as a member of the commission that revised the statutes of the Wyoming Territory in 1886. In 1887, he served as City Attorney of Cheyenne, and in the following year he was elected to the Territorial Legislature. Van Devanter was only thirty years old when, in 1889, President Benjamin Harrison appointed him Chief Justice of the Wyoming Territorial Supreme Court. After Wyoming was admitted to the Union as the forty-fourth State in 1890, Van Devanter resigned as Chief Justice and returned to private practice. In 1897, President William McKinley appointed him an Assistant Attorney General, assigned to the Interior Department. President Theodore Roosevelt appointed him to the United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit in 1903. President William H. Taft nominated Van Devanter to the Supreme Court of the United States on December 12, 1910. The Senate confirmed the appointment three days later. Van Devanter served on the Supreme Court for twenty-six years. He retired on June 2, 1937, and died on February 8, 1941, at the age of eighty-one.

Dollie Burhans (F)
b. 27 May 1862, d. 4 September 1934, #262679

     Dollie Burhans was born on 27 May 1862 at Ionia, Ionia County, Michigan. She married Associate Justice Willis Van Devanter, son of Isaac Van Devanter and Violetta Margaret Spencer, on 10 October 1883 at Ionia, Ionia County, Michigan.
Dollie Burhans and Associate Justice Willis Van Devanter appeared on the census of 1920 at Washington, District of Columbia. Dollie Burhans died on 4 September 1934 at Wiesbaden, Hesse, Germany, at age 72.